Assistant Buyer: Kidswear Jet

1 week ago

Gauteng, South Africa The Foschini Group Full time

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Administratively supporting all aspects of the buying process
- Ensuring timeous placement of orders onto the purchasing system
- Maintaining a control system for the sample room
- Compiling, balancing, and updating spreadsheets and reports
- Maintaining quality assurance control and audit of samples
- All preparations prior to presentations
- Completing all administrative documentation that is related to loading products into the TFG system
- Building constructive and mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers
- Communicating with suppliers to gather all information required to load product
- Processing of all amendments and communicating changes to relevant parties
- Supporting the customer service team in resolving product and order queries and complaints and product sourcing and pricing queries
- Managing orders through the critical path process
- Pulling of weekly reports on incoming stock and liaising with suppliers for keep samples
- Managing sample process between retail and production
- Prepping of product and documents for quarterly SWOT's
- Able to do a Comp Shop on their own
- Pulling samples / images for weekly sales reports or product meetings as requested by the buyer
- Assisting Buyers with order placements
- Maintaining the retail sample room
- Assist with coordination of QA samples

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Matric, Higher Certificate or Diploma
- Buying Admin experience
- Previous experience as an Assistant Buyer or similar role would be advantageous
- Understanding of the clothing retail Cycle and Buying Process
- A good working knowledge of the current computer software packages (knowledge of Excel, Word & E-mail would be preferable).

**Skills**:

- Uses a structured approach to effectively manage tasks
- Analyses complex situations and formulates effective strategic plans
- Builds meaningful connections and establishes relationships
- Leverage’s market and business insights in the delivery of their work

**Behaviours**:

- Takes accountability and ensures others are held to account on agreed upon performance targets
- Be highly organised, numerate, and have exceptional coordination ability
- Have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to build and maintain working relationships incl. being helpful and assisting where necessary in the department.
- Show initiative, be proactive, enthusiastic, and self-motivated
- Have high energy levels
- Have the ability to multi-task and be flexible
- Excel in a pressurised environment
- Have a problem-solving approach to work
- Able to work with a large workload and remain efficient
- Must be able to work with a team
- Must possess a positive attitude

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