Express Buying Assistant

ASDA; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is seeking an Express Buying Assistant to support the Buyer in managing sales tracking and analysis. The role involves maintaining admin responsibilities, liaising with suppliers, and contributing to promotional decisions. Candidates should be analytical, effective communicators, and thrive in fast-paced environments. This position offers a hybrid work model, with benefits including a discretionary bonus, pension plans, and a colleague discount.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

15% colleague discount

Access to wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Skilled in using data to make informed decisions.
• Excellent communication skills to work at all levels.
• Ability to manage change and drive results.

Responsibilities

• Support the Buyer in sales tracking and analysis.
• Maintain up-to-date admin including line listings and supplier liaison.
• Assist with competitor research and day-to-day trading.

Skills

Analytical and data driven

Strong communicator

Thrives in a fast-paced environment

Agile decision maker

Job description

Job Title: Express Buying Assistant

Location: Asda House

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category: Buying

Closing Date: 22 January 2026

About the role

Getting the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you'll soon realise when you join our team. In this incredibly fast‑moving and ever‑changing environment, you'll discover exactly how much the little things matter. From daily sales and profit reports, to admin support and marketing getting everything accurate is hugely important. And doing it as efficiently as possible will bring savings to our customers as well as to our business.

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 contribute to decisions on ranges and promotions and answer and resolve store/supplier queries.

Other important tasks include raising and reconciling internal and external invoices to the category and assisting the Buyer with competitor research and the day‑to‑day trading of your category.

Qualities We Look For

• Analytical and data driven, skilled in using data to make informed decisions and optimise results.
• Be a strong communicator with great personal skills to work with people at all levels – not just in our business, but also beyond it.
• Thrives in a fast‑paced environment, with the ability to manage change and drive results.
• Be agile and an effective decision maker, willing to move, fail and learn fast.
• Be obsessed about our purpose and our customers.

Everything You'll Love

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.

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.