Function: Commercial Assistant
Responsibility: to assist with all admin across Merchandising, Sales & Buying
Reports to: Head of Buying & Sales
Location: Leeds (Colton) 2mins from Junction 46 – M1, 20mins from Leeds Station
Compensation: Dependant on experience
Our background and your main purpose…
Gym King was founded in 2015 and has grown from ‘bedroom brand’ to a leading athleisure and performance wear company with sales of in excess of £20m through an excellent online presence and market leading retail partners. A highly entrepreneurial business driven as a tight fast-moving SME.
We are looking for a Commercial Assistant to work across both the Merchandising team and the Buying & Sales Team based at Gym Kings Head office near Leeds to support the rapid growth of the business. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic fashion business as it continues on its journey of growth.
The ideal Candidate will be passionate, enthusiastic, and hardworking with an eye for detail. You will be driven by a love for brand, product, and service to its customers. The successful candidate will be a strong team player who thrives from working in a fast-paced environment, a dynamic individual with a strong work ethic.
What you will be doing:
Trading
- Tunning stock reports for the sales team
Purchase Orders
- Upload of POs to internal system (NetSuite)
- Creating and sending barcode data to suppliers
- Updating any changes in PO documents, supplier copy and the internal system (NetSuite)
- Purchase order raising
- Setting up SKUs in the system
- Setting up new suppliers on the internal system
- System description / pricing amends
- Raising issues with NetSuite / Eureka / Team IT
Analysis & Reporting
- Updating reports for merchandiser to review- linecards, intake sheet, WSSI, analysis by week
- Updating ratios templates to represent the latest sales data
Other
- Pricing changes uploads to Netsuite
- Closing down received POs in the system
- Ownership of EAN/Fibre comp and Wash care report
- Very Data sheet
- AD HOC Admin tasks
Key Skills & Experience
- Up to 2 years office-based administration experience.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Methodical in approach to work.
- Ability to work cross functional on wholesale account and e-commerce
- Take ownership of task from inception to conclusion
- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
- A highly organised self-starter with excellent attention to detail and time management skills.
- Resilient with good problem-solving skills.
- Basic excel skills – training will be given.
- Experience is Netsuite would be advantageous but not essential.
Gym King values:
- Fearless
- Focussed
- Driven
- Resilient
- Team Player
The successful candidate will demonstrate behaviours that are aligned to these values.
Benefits
- Competitive salary dependent upon experience
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) option to ‘buy ‘up to 2 extra days
- Free onsite parking
- Relaxed and friendly working environment
- 50% Gym King discount for staff, friends & family
- 10 days sick pay (after completion of probationary period)
- Hybrid working (1 in 5 days)
- Health Cash Plan (after completion of probationary period)
- GK profit related bonus scheme
- Flexible start (between 08:00-10:00) & finish (between 16:00 – 18:00) times
- Staff shop with heavily discounted sample Gym King products
- Discounted gym membership
- Cycle to Work
- Fully paid for annual staff party
Working hours: Due to the nature of this role, the hours will be full time (37.5 hours per week) Monday-Friday, although a flexible approach is required.
Location: This role is based at Unit 6 Temple Point, Bullerthorpe Lane, Colton, Leeds LS15 9JL. 2 minutes off the M1 J46. There will be a requirement to travel as part of this role.
