Junior Buyer

2 weeks ago

Kempton Park, South Africa The Foschini Group Full time

**Job ID**:13059**Position Type**:Full-Time**Job Function**:Buying**Workplace Type**:Head Office**Division**:Jet Division**Province**:Gauteng**Location**:Johannesburg East**Suburb**:Isando (Kempton Park)Position Description:
**JUNIOR BUYER - HOME HARDS - JET**

**Isando**

**Permanent**

The opportunity:
Are you a dynamic, innovative and creative individual?

Do you have experience in buying or a related field and have strong business acumen?

If you would like the opportunity to join a dynamic team, then this is the ideal position for you

**Responsibilities**:

- Sourcing and developing new merchandise, as well as reviewing existing merchandise, in order to ensure the product offering remains competitive
- By fully understanding the customers’ needs, this person must be able to maximise profits and provide a commercially viable range of merchandise at competitive prices
- Negotiate effectively
- Build and maintain good relationships with staff, suppliers and key functions in the business
- Think in terms of the "big picture" as well as consider specifics and detail
- Assess complex situations and implement workable solutions
- Communicate effectively at all level
- Understanding business trends and target markets
- Strategically influencing product and assortment/range planning, based on historical and forecasted information
- Being able to critically analyse and evaluate data in order to make strategic business decisions, which affect turnover and business growth
- Product development

**Requirements**:

- A proven track record in buying
- Contributed to growth / profit through innovative and creative ideas
- A good working knowledge of the current computer software packages (knowledge of Excel, Word, E-mail & powerpoint)
- Experience in sourcing from various sources and countries
- Strong presentation skills
- 3+ years’ experience in a similar role
- Product development and international sourcing experience
- Works independently

Competencies and behaviours for success:

- A passion for homeware
- High levels of creativity
- An entrepreneurial, merchant-style of thinking
- Excellent organisational skills
- Uncompromising negotiation skills
- Good analytical skills and a high attention to detail

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