WE ARE HIRING

‘WE ARE WE WEAR’ Building confidence, one body at a time. Everyone deserves to feel confident in their lingerie and swimwear. That’s why We Are We Wear is dedicated to creating quality swimwear & intimates with everybody in mind. 

With sizes ranging from XS to 3XL – and appropriate enhancements made to ensure comfort across the board – join us in saying goodbye to unrealistic beauty standards and hello to We Are We Wear.

We are currently representing a well-established and exciting business. The company needs  self-driven and ambitious people who have experience working in a fast-paced environment.

Please see below our current roles, to apply please send us an email with your C/V and covering letter to: 

info@wearewewear.com

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Management Accountant 

Location: Southwark, London

Position:Permanent

Full-time – Normal working hours 9.30 am, 5:30 pm (flexible WFH on request )

 About you:

 

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Finance & Operations Coordinator 

Location: Southwark, London

Position:Permanent

Full-time – Working hours 9.30 am, 5:30 pm (flexible WFH on request)

About you:

An ideal candidate would have around 3+ years of experience in Finance. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, and good problem-solving skills. Someone who is extremely organised & highly analytical to work under pressure & meet deadlines. Experience in the fashion and/or start-up space. Happy to get involved with Excel and Xero accounting when needed. An enthusiastic, “start-up” mentality is essential.

Main responsibilities: 

• Manage and prepare annual plans, quarterly re-forecasts, quarterly cash-flows and budget plans
• Updating the project budget, by collecting reports from the company s financial system and supporting the director in the review and analysis of data
• Coordinating financial sign-off and approval processes, including payments to suppliers and financial invoicing
• Updating the projects finance tools and documentation
• Working with the director to complete monthly financial reporting, including forecasting to both internal and external stakeholders
• Supporting field office financial management (review of funding requests from field offices, supporting field office spending reports)
• Update of Weekly Sales for the Wholesale channels
• Assisting with Accounts Receivable for Wholesale Customers, including sending customer statements and ensuring customer payment terms are adhered to.
• Collaborate with the director to ensure that the financial requirements are being met.
• Business Partner the Brand Directors and lead the budget and forecast process
• Balance sheet reconciliations such as accruals
• Dealing with financial queries from wholesale customers
• Work closely with the director to drive forward a cost management culture, placing emphasis on the validity of information shared & providing targeted performance reporting.
• Work closely with the director to ensure the management accounts are complete, and accurate and timetables are met. Produce monthly reconciliation of weekly costs to monthly management accounts and provide explanations/commentary for any differences
• Help to prepare monthly operations performance reports
• Monitor the purchase ordering process onsite ensuring POs are raised and approved correctly on a timely basis and suppliers are paid in accordance with terms
• Additional ad-hoc duties as requested.

Who are we looking for?

• At least 3 years in Financial & Operations Management
• Supply Chain experience is not essential but would benefit
• Strong and robust character, confident in challenging at all levels.
• advanced Excel skills and ideally experience with Xero Accounts package.
• Ability to deliver high-quality work to tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work under own initiative and collaborate across departments.
• Ability to manage and prioritise tasks simultaneously whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• “Solution driven” as opposed to “problem focusing”.
• Ability to adapt to new systems efficiently and understand the end-to-end process.

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Buyers Admin Assistant 

Location:Southwark, London

Position:Permanent 

Full-time – Working hours 9.30am -5:30pm 

The Role

The job role of the Buyers Admin Assistant is a highly administrative role within the fashion buying team, providing essential support to their Assistant Buyer, Buyer and Senior Buyer.

The Buyers Admin Assistant's responsibility is to ensure the smooth running of the critical path through the whole fashion buying cycle. Whether the product is womenswear, menswear, swimwear or lingerie the job role remains the same.

The duties of the Buyers Admin Assistant include placing purchase orders, creating and maintaining the critical path, attending fit sessions, competitive shops and the maintenance of the sample library, racking up samples, creating fashion trend boards for buying meetings.

Ad hoc duties are also an essential daily part of the Buyers Admin Assistant job role as you are providing full administrative support to the team

Main responsibilities:

• Order Raising
• Completing order attributes accurately
• Raising orders accurately and amending purchase orders
• Dealing with issues arising with orders both internally and externally
• Co-ordinating barcode process with suppliers
• Inputting orders onto the critical path
• Action any order amendments under the direction of your manager 
• Support commitment through weekly team updates
• Issuing commitment enquiries to suppliers
• Managing critical path with suppliers & team
• Sample Management
• Processing samples received (fits, development, shoots/meetings)
• Labelling, logging, organising and filing samples including press and bought
• Collating and preparing meeting samples
• Maintaining range and samples
• Maintaining fit samples & fit log
• Driving the press sample process to ensure that the department offer is fully potentialise
• Product Awareness
• On-going familiarity of the competition’s product range
• Basic understanding of “Monthly Figure Pack”
• Reporting back on competitor finds
• Department Support
• Receiving and Sending post
• Proactively dealing with department queries both internally and externally

Who are we looking for ? 

• Ability to work in a team, whilst demonstrating innovation and flexibility
• Ability to react to change 
• Excellent communication skills both externally and at all levels internally, both written and verbal (good telephone manner)
• Understanding working for a smaller business requires a hands-on attitude.
• Ability to work well under pressure & priorities tasks
• Strong organisation & administration skills
• Enthusiastic, confident and self-motivated
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an eye for detail and accuracy
• Willing to adapt and take on new challenges; and driven to continually improve
• Proficient in analysing numbers and providing accurate feedback
• Strong Excel skills are a must

 

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 Junior Merchandiser 

Location:Southwark, London

The Role

This is a junior position & expect to have 5+ years of experience within retail merchandising. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, and good problem-solving skills. Someone who is extremely organised & highly analytical to work under pressure & meet deadlines. Experience with dealing with offshore factories that deal with large production lines is ideally required. 

Main responsibilities will include:

• Develop & maintain a portfolio of suppliers.
• Plan & implement global logistics strategy, ensuring targets are met. 
• Drive & manage cost negotiations with suppliers.
• Raising initial Po’s 
• Logistics management 
• merchandising planning
• Stock controller
• Continuously looking for ways to improve lead times
• Track & monitor deliveries per wholesale account.
• Anticipate potential supply chain issues & expedite it.
• Responsible for driving the effective use of systems & maintenance & accuracy.
• Capacity booking negotiation with suppliers. 
• Be able to manage a small merchandising team
• Planning demand and providing accurate forecasts for stock requirements from key suppliers.
• Ensuring minimal stock wastage.
• Support in the shaping and execution of the purchasing strategy.
• Working closely with our warehouse & distribution centres 
• Work closely with the director to understand payment issues related to accounts. 
• Assist with overheads budgeting & financial planning 
• Processing orders from wholesale accounts.
• Monitor the purchase ordering process onsite ensuring POs are raised and approved correctly on a timely basis and suppliers are paid in accordance with terms
• Update of Weekly Sales for the Wholesale channels & e-Commerce

Person specification

• A Junior with 5+ years of experience within retail merchandising.
• Ability to work in a team, whilst demonstrating innovation and flexibility
• Ability to react to change 
• Excellent communication skills both externally and at all levels internally, both written and verbal (good telephone manner)
• Understanding of working for a smaller business, requires a hands-on attitude.
• Ability to work well under pressure & priorities tasks
• Strong organisation & administration skills
• Enthusiastic, confident and self-motivated
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an eye for detail and accuracy
• Willing to adapt and take on new challenges; and driven to continually improve
• Proficient in analysing numbers and providing accurate feedback
• Strong Excel skills, VLOOKUP’s and Pivots are a must

Position:Permanent 

Full-time– Working hours 9.30am, 5:30pm