Junior Ecommerce Buyer

6 days ago

Woodstock, South Africa MyRunway Full time

**We are on the hunt for an Ecommerce Buyer to join our expanding team in Cape Town.**

You will be responsible for managing a number of supplier relationships and sales campaigns. Working with our Supply Team to select new products and review existing items to ensure a proper product mix and balanced availability flow. Merchandising factors include customer demand, market trends, product availability, product flow, and pricing strategy.

In order to succeed in this role, you need to be self-motivated, thrive under pressure, have a keen eye for detail and excellent multitasking skills.

Our A-players are results-driven creative thinkers who like to move fast, get the job done, and have fun doing it. If you love to roll up your sleeves and take on exciting new challenges every dayYou should definitely keep reading.

**Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with the Supply Team to strategically build balanced range assortments for the customer.
- Sign, build and maintain partnerships with the world’s best brands aligned to the customer strategy and ensure we get best price, great value offers and exclusive ranges.
- Work closely with suppliers to ensure stock is delivered to the warehouse on time, packaged correctly and as cost effectively as possible.
- Monitor stock, sales, margin and assortment to ensure delivery of KPI’s - systematically introducing promotions, sales, price changes, etc.
- Trade your range in-season through consistent analysis and interpretation of data to drive sell-through and reduce markdown.
- Analyzing past sales figures and current trends to anticipate future product needs and devise a merchandise plan
- Continuously contribute toward innovation in the department

**Skills**:

- Commercially astute
- Self-motivated and self starter
- Attention to detail
- Ability to learn quickly
- Superior communication skills; able to communicate persuasively, influentially and responsibly across a broad spectrum of stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize and meet deadlines
- Works well under pressure and sticks to tight deadlines - able to deal with stress
- Excellent analytical skills - Ability to use extensive system knowledge to prepare informative reporting tools. Generate, analyze and recommend alternative actions. Determine relevant information and draw sound conclusions
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel (pivot tables, v-lookups, etc.)
- Demonstrate smart risk taking and a strong entrepreneurial spirit
- Demonstrate financial acumen - understand what drives the bottom line. Understand what actions can be taken to impact it
- Establish plans - Utilize business strategies to develop realistic plans and drive to execution
- Innovative - Continually look for ways to experiment and drive new learning. Translate insights into original concepts that benefit the business.
- Up to date with the latest merchandising trends and best practices

**Experience**:

- 2+ years of experience working as a Buyer or Merchandiser
- Completed degree preferred. In the absence of degree, additional and relevant work experience must be demonstrated
- E-Commerce or retail experience preferred - familiarity with eCommerce buying and merchandising
- Experience in working within a fashion/branded environment preferred
- Displays high degree of retail math proficiency. Applies financial reasoning and concepts to daily operations to consistently drive sales.
- Displays strong financial, strategic, planning, merchandising, negotiation and relationship building skills.
- Demonstrates forward thinking including ability to identify and initiate new business through trend spotting, analysis, proactive goal setting and execution.

Runway is committed to transformation and redressing of past inequalities. Our employment equity goals will be taken into account in our selection process.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Education**:

- Diploma (required)

**Experience**:

- buying: 2 years (preferred)

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