Junior Buyer

**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