Buying Assistant- Healthcare (Hiring Immediately)

Job Title Buying Assistant- Healthcare

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Competitive salary plus benefits.

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Are you interested in kickstarting a career in Buying?

Getting the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you’ll soon realise when you join the Asda Healthcare Buying team . Working across a fast‑moving and ever‑changing Healthcare environment, you’ll see first‑hand how much the small details matter. From daily sales and profit reports to category administration, supplier liaison and marketing support, accuracy and pace are critical.

By doing things efficiently and getting them right first time, you’ll help deliver value both for our customers and for the business.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll support the Buying and Commercial team across a broad range of Healthcare categories, helping with day‑to‑day trading and analysis. Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting sales tracking, reporting and performance analysis

• Keeping all category administration up to date, including line listings, cost and retail changes

• Liaising with suppliers to ensure deadlines and actions are met

• Inputting into decisions on product ranges, promotions and activity plans

• Responding to and resolving store and supplier queries

• Raising and reconciling internal and external invoices

• Supporting Buying Managers with competitor research and insight

• Assisting with the day‑to‑day trading of the category

This is a great opportunity to build strong commercial foundations and gain exposure across a key growth area within Asda.

Everything you’ll love

To balance collaboration with flexibility, Asda operates a hybrid way of working, with a minimum of 3 days per week in one of our Home Offices. Depending on the role, there may also be occasions where additional time is spent visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You’ll also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline

• Discounts across a wide range of services and activities, from airport parking to theme parks and cinemas

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues ensure everyone is included and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity, adoption, paternity, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave and fertility treatment support

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

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.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• 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