Wholesale Trading Associate 12 month FTC

We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.

About the Role

Trading associates are integral to the success of running the wholesale business within ASOS.com.

Trading Associates support the BM Trading Partners, to strategically driving the business through effective planning, trading, working collaboratively with commercial B & M teams, account managers and Trading Associates to achieve commercially successful outcomes for our Partners whilst driving profitability for ASOS.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Working to deliver partner budgets and Internal despatch targets by managing and tracking top line intake.
• Communicating any risk to targets and proposing solutions to your trading partner.
• Work with partners to manage their Item set-up/PO process for all partner that issue Open POs.
• Reporting on stock holding and forecasting despatch at both partner level & total wholesale level.
• Building a good working knowledge of Micro strategy to provide an appropriate level of data analysis and insights that can be shared with relevant teams to aid decision making and gain product information.
• Regular analysis & reporting of partner performance and despatch to maximise commercial opportunities.
• Developing and building strong relationships with key stakeholders within ASOS, in particular the Supply Chain and FC teams in USA & UK.
• Contributing to meetings, under guidance of Trading partner, to ensure that key messages and movements in plans are communicated clearly.
• Supporting the implementation of new processes and seasonal strategies within the new wholesale area.
• Resolving issues that may arise and working collaboratively with your Trading partner and other relevant teams to come up with effective solutions.
• Demonstrating collaborative working, by discussing and sharing opportunities and risks with other trading associates across the team and within commercial B&M teams to influence increased despatch.
• Ensuring all partner & commercial team deadlines are met and completed, producing meaningful analysis to support Trading Partner and Management.
• Developing and support MA(s) to encourage their development.
• Deputising for Trading Partner where appropriate.
• Maintaining a strong awareness of competitors, including product and pricing considerations, sharing findings and proposing actions to the wider team.
• Maintaining awareness of company and division KPIs for season.

Who We’d Like to Meet

• 
  2+ years of experience of working at Merchandising Assistant or Assistant Merchandiser level
• Experience planning weekly sales or despatch, stock and intake management
• Proven ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with commercial B&M teams, and partners at all levels.
• A self-starter, who seeks continuous feedback and opportunities to take on greater responsibility
• Ability to embrace change and remaining flexible based on trade performance.
• Strong skills within MS Excel, and the ability to pick up new business systems quickly
• A passion and interest in Fashion Retail, with strong global market and product knowledge

What’s in it for you?

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)

• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)

• Employee sample sales

• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials

• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday

• Discretionary performance related bonus scheme

• Private medical care scheme

• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits

Our Commitments

We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how are we doing it?

We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.

We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people - find out more here.

Do you need any reasonable adjustments? Our recruitment team will be happy to support you in the best way possible if you feel comfortable raising this. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.

If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.