Buying Manager Totalsport

4 days ago

Parow, South Africa The Foschini Group Full time

**Job ID**:11774

**Position Type**:Full-Time

**Job Function**:Buying

**Workplace Type:
**Division**:TFG Sports Division

**Province**:Western Cape

**Location**:Cape Town North

**Suburb**:Parow (Parow)

Position Description:
At Totalsports we’re all about** PERFORMANCE**, we INSPIRE, we’re** AUTHENTIC**, we’re** MOTIVATING**, we** INNOVATE**, and we are **REAL**. We are looking for Buying Manager who embodies a passion for sports and keeping fit and healthy, as well as a leader who develops, inspires, motivates and drives a high performing team.

Do you encourage others to reach their goals on and off the field?

Then join our commitment **to inspire** & **unlock potential** by **making sport** & **fitness accessible to everyone**.

As the Buying Manager you will:

- Lead the Footwear, Team sport and Equipment teams
- Partner with key international brands to land our technical run, train and football offering
- Maximise opportunity in team sports categories
- Continue to find growth opportunities in wearable tech and impulse
- Lead and develop a buying team to conceptualise and implement the merchandise strategy for TS own brand in relevant categories
- Support the buying team in building trend-led ranges within range/price architecture
- Ensure successful execution of product / range strategy in store and online in collaboration with suppliers, store operations, planning, marketing and logistics teams
- Establish and/or develop sustainable supplier relationships for TS own brand
- Maximise all business opportunities
- Ensure reliable source of supply through sound processes
- Negotiate terms with suppliers in line with overall margin, service and quality targets
- Drive and develop the performance of the team with a view to optimise delivery and achievement of objectives whilst effectively managing performance issues or concerns
- Margin management and reporting, as well as managing imports and Forex
- On boarding of new suppliers and product ranges creating an endless sporting goods aisle

Interested? What you will need is:

- A relevant tertiary qualification
- Passionate about the belief that sport changes lives - we’re the #HomeOfSport
- Minimum 2 - 3 years working experience at a management level, incl. people / team management
- Minimum 10 years relevant buying / merchandise experience is essential
- Building and maintaining strategic supplier relationships
- Drive a merchandise strategy by demonstrating innovative and creative thinking
- Persuading and influencing internal and external stakeholders
- Delivering to aggressive deadlines, incl. problem solving
- Analytical ability to effectively evaluate and drive functional KPIs, incl. sales growth, PIS, CSOH, input
- and maintained margins, stock turn, clearance
- Strong written and verbal communication at all levels of organisation
- Leadership and people management abilities

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