Buyers Assistant at PnP

7 days ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Pick 'n Pay Full time

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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

  1. Business Related Degree
  2. 1-2 Years Retail experience
  3. Proficiency in SAP and BW, MS Outlook and MS Word
  4. Good Excel skills

Competencies

  1. Good communication skills
  2. Attention to detail
  3. Good numerical reasoning
  4. Organized, methodical and structured
  5. Providing service excellence to internal and external customers
  6. Ability to plan and co-ordinate a task/job realistically
  7. Task commitment and goal directed
  8. Be able to work under pressure, sense of urgency

Key Responsibilities

  1. To be able to collate and pull adhoc statistical and exception reports on request
  2. To analyse reports, investigate anomalies and take appropriate action
  3. Prepare vendor take-on forms and check all supporting documents
  4. To attend buyer's negotiations with suppliers
  5. Monitor and manage execution of buying contracts and SLA's to the DC's
  6. To identify and verify PnP article data with external systems ensuring master data alignment
  7. To review and communicate aged and exit stock reports for buyer
  8. To be able to interact with relevant stakeholders on sales uplift information (indicator and stock management)
  9. To be able to investigate all price queries for the buyer
  10. To ensure all product life cycle activities are executed successfully
  11. Monitor performance of newly listed products and inform buyer
  12. Provide support to customer care teams
  13. To generate and analyse exception reports to ensure rebate target achieved
  14. Request creation of Article through the Electronic article take-on
  15. Maintain emergency pricing.
Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Purchasing and Supply Chain

Industries

Retail

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