Buyers Assistant at PnP
7 days ago
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Role Summary
Assist the buyer in compiling and executing the category plans in line with the strategy, objectives and category group guidelines on format/margin and assortment strategies. Provide day to day administrative support to optimize the performance (i.e. sales and cash margins) of the categories by being customer focused.
Minimum Requirements
- Business Related Degree
- 1-2 Years Retail experience
- Proficiency in SAP and BW, MS Outlook and MS Word
- Good Excel skills
Competencies
- Good communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Good numerical reasoning
- Organized, methodical and structured
- Providing service excellence to internal and external customers
- Ability to plan and co-ordinate a task/job realistically
- Task commitment and goal directed
- Be able to work under pressure, sense of urgency
Key Responsibilities
- To be able to collate and pull adhoc statistical and exception reports on request
- To analyse reports, investigate anomalies and take appropriate action
- Prepare vendor take-on forms and check all supporting documents
- To attend buyer's negotiations with suppliers
- Monitor and manage execution of buying contracts and SLA's to the DC's
- To identify and verify PnP article data with external systems ensuring master data alignment
- To review and communicate aged and exit stock reports for buyer
- To be able to interact with relevant stakeholders on sales uplift information (indicator and stock management)
- To be able to investigate all price queries for the buyer
- To ensure all product life cycle activities are executed successfully
- Monitor performance of newly listed products and inform buyer
- Provide support to customer care teams
- To generate and analyse exception reports to ensure rebate target achieved
- Request creation of Article through the Electronic article take-on
- Maintain emergency pricing.
Entry level
Employment typeFull-time
Job functionPurchasing and Supply Chain
IndustriesRetail
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