Job Role: Buying Internship
Reporting to: Senior
Buyer
Location: Head Office,
White City Place, West London
Contract type: Full
Time, 37.5 hours per week (12 month contract)
About Us:
ME+EM is one of the UK’s fastest-growing luxury fashion brands. In addition to a thriving global digital presence, we operate flagship stores in London and Edinburgh, concessions within Harrods and Selfridges, and have recently expanded with new store openings in the U.S.
Our office and stores are always busy and fast paced, but we work just as hard to make sure it’s fun, with social activities and biannual parties. We pride ourselves on being approachable, supportive, and welcoming and ensure that everyone’s hard work is rewarded. It takes all these things to build a strong, successful business and our door is always open to new talent ready to contribute to our growth and evolution.
About the Role:
ME+EM are seeking a Buying Intern for a one-year, paid internship. This role involves providing vital and accurate administrative support to our Buying team.
Key Responsibilities:
Sample Management
- Sample Housekeeping – ensuring all samples are filed correctly in the relevant cupboard/ room/ season.
- Maintain organisation of the archive room.
- Do seasonal archiving per department in preparation for internal sample sale.
- Collate samples and create packing lists to send stock back to the warehouse.
- Supporting the team with the organisation of sample sales and assisting on the day of the event
- Ensure the product studio, buying area and fit rooms are kept tidy and clear of excess samples/ CADS/ fabric swatches.
- To pull out lab dips/bulk swatches for buyers/designers approvals and manage the filling system
Post
- Log all samples received at head office in the sample tracker (In & Out, fit, shoot, press) from the suppliers/ warehouse and distribute accordingly.
- To manage all in and out post.
- Update the fit list and team with received samples to fit.
- Order DHL supplies.
- Help assist other departments in booking couriers.
Fits
- Ensure all fit samples (and any additional reference samples) are prepared, steamed and on the fit rail in advance of the fit meetings.
- Pull out previous fit samples/archive for the Design & Technical team when requested.
- Send all samples back to the supplier/ warehouse in a timely fashion.
Meetings
- Ensure the Proto & Pre-production meeting samples are steamed, labelled and presented on a rail in advance of the meetings.
- Pull out relevant samples for the concept store per month.
- Ensure samples are pulled out for additional meetings in a timely manner.
Shoots
- Assist with pulling out previous season samples for pre-prod/shoots.
- Assist with packing up samples for shoots out of office and support marketing with the return of samples.
- Collate bulk samples or fabric/yarns for retouches’ following the book shoots.
- Send and receive all photo shoot samples to ‘Twenty Twenty’ ensuring each sample is labelled correctly and logged on the ‘Twenty Twenty tracker’.
Additional tasks
Build and maintain good working & professional relationships with head office, store and warehouse teams.
Employee Benefits:
25 days
annual leave + 8 bank holidays and a day off to celebrate your birthday
Discretionary
annual bonus scheme
Generous
Staff Discount of up to 70% off and Sample Sales
Generous
Friends and Family Discount
Company
Pension Scheme
Employee
Assisted Program (EAP) offering annual health checks, financial wellbeing
support and physical and mental wellbeing services
Length of
Service Awards
Employee
referral incentive
Monthly
social and wellbeing events, annual summer and Christmas parties
Mental
Health Awareness and First Aid Training
Cycle to
work scheme
Volunteer
Day
Tech scheme
with Curry's PC world
Annual Eye
Care Voucher for a free eye test and money off glasses frames with Specsavers
Real Living
Wage Employer
Enhanced
maternity and paternity package after 2 years of service
ME+EM is an equal opportunities employer committed to fostering and preserving a culture of diversity, equality, and inclusion in our workforce. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we do not discriminate against applicants based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We believe that diversity enriches our workforce and strengthens our organisation. Therefore, we encourage minorities, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities to apply for opportunities within our company.
Please email [email protected] should
you require any adjustments needed to take part in this recruitment process
Please note,
due to the large number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those
that are successful to the next stage
