Assistant Buyer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Retail

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Assistant Buyer Skills List in Retail

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Assistant Buyer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Assistant Buyer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 78% of Assistant Buyer job descriptions contained factories as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

factories
78%
assistant buyer
64%
critical path
61%
buying admin assistant
45%
buying assistant
45%
new product set up
45%
purchase orders
45%
sample management
45%
trends
45%
product development
29%
range building
23%
sourcing
20%
sign off
20%
buying
16%
junior buyer
15%
excel
15%
senior assistant buyer
12%
merchandising
12%
admin
12%
assistant merchandiser
8%
imports
8%
orders
8%
import merchandiser
8%
retail
7%
sales
7%
buyer
7%
fashion buying
7%
furniture
5%
senior merchandise admin assistant
5%
stock
5%
account management
4%
budgets
4%
christmas
4%
far east
4%
intake
4%
garden
4%
product
4%
margin
4%
trade fairs
4%
fmcg
4%
customer service
4%
category manager
4%
negations
4%
inventory
4%
manchester
2%
administrative support
2%
accessories
2%
warehouse
2%
trade counter
2%
time management
2%
internal sales
2%
graduate level
2%
driver
2%
qc
2%
skus
2%
online retail
2%
franchise
2%
international
2%
joint ventures
2%
forecasting
2%
junior merchandiser
2%
mark downs
2%
merchandiser
2%
sales analysis
2%
junior merchandising
2%
stores
2%
homewares
2%
identifying trends
2%
interior design
2%
communication skills
2%
fashion design
2%
fashion
2%
brands
2%

While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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