Commercial Assistant

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.