Job Title: Buying Assistant – Candles & Home Fragrance
Location: Asda House
Employment Type: Full time
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category: Buying
Closing Date: 4 October 2026
Responsibilities
- You will support the Buyer in all areas, including sales tracking and analysis.
- It’s important that you keep the admin up to date, including line listing, cost and retail changes and liaise with suppliers to ensure that they keep to deadlines and tasks.
- You will Impute into decisions on ranges and promotions and answer and resolve store/supplier queries.
- Other important tasks include raising and reconciling of internal and external invoices to the category and assisting the Buyer with competitor research and the day to day trading of your category.
Benefits
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched 15%
- Colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments
- We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
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