Category Manager Admin Assistant

4 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Zeal HR Full time

**Category Manager Admin Assistant (Imports experience essential)**

Location: Aeroton

Position Summary:
Responsible for all administrative and associated support for the Category Manager’s.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Placing replenishment orders with suppliers as per the instructions of the Category Manager.
- Ensuring that these orders are placed timeously.
- Creating Purchase orders for these orders
- Creating, maintaining, and updating the Orders Schedule with all relevant information and latest dates so that there is always an up-to-date schedule for all orders placed.
- Follow Company Quality Control procedures.
- Ensure that orders ship on time.
- Open Files for these orders
- Giving final approval for goods to ship
- Bi-monthly liaison with the supplier to ensure that they are on track with the order.
- Preparation of Clearing Documentation for our freight forwarders.
- Ensure that these orders arrive on time, as per the Demand Planners request.
- Ensuring that orders arrive on time for campaigns planned.
- Coordinate and track product samples and ensure they are received in a timely manner.
- Assisting with the samples of products
- to be labelled and kept as a good record of samples, the packaging and couriering of samples to suppliers and the managing of samples for product photography.
- Maintaining and updating a payment schedule for the payment of deposits and balances for these orders.
- Assisting the category manager with proofing of monthly Price List and Spectacular Specials and handouts.
- Keeping track of all components that are required for your orders.
- Assisting the category manager with provisional/final costings.
- Involvement with the packaging of new products in the Category

Education Requirements:

- Essential: Matric
- Desirable: Relevant business/retail tertiary qualification
- Essential: 2-3 years related experience
- Experience in Imports is essential
- Experience working in Excel is essential

Core Competencies:

- Persuading and Influencing
- Analyzing
- Deciding and initiating action
- Planning and Organising
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Presenting and Communicating Information
- Strong analytical and excel skill.

Job knowledge, skills and abilities:

- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Communication skills
- Commercial thinking.


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