Cellular Buying Coordinator

We're on the lookout for a Cellular Buying Coordinator to provide effective and accurate administrative and general assistance to the Cellular Account Managers/s in their respective key responsibility areas to achieve the SBU’s sales and profit objectives.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**1. Buying Process Administration**
- Build and manage the product roadmap info deck
- Administrative support with style creation and style templates, deals and price adjustments
- Manage the update of all Cellular products for e-commerce
- Attribute Card Management

**2**. Reporting and Analysis**
- Reporting on and management of markdown support
- Monthly invoicing and reporting on marketing recoveries
- Competitor and Assortment Analysis

**3.** Procurement and distribution of dummy handsets**
- Source and manage the process of dummy phone procurement for risk purposes

**4.** Marketing Support**
- Manage the creative approval process with mobile network operators
- Make recommendations on future deals, products and promotions

**5**. Communication and general assistance to Cellular Account Manager/s**
- Formulate trusting partnerships with key stakeholders
- Communicate and follow up effectively with all relevant internal and external Customers/role players/key relationships
- Continuously assist and support the Account Management team
- Weekly feedback

**Experience and Skills Required**:
**Essential**:

- Previous experience (preferably 2 years) in a Coordinator role within a retail/buying environment
- Previous experience (preferably 2 years) in an administrative role

**Preferred**:

- Merchant skills and a sound commercial mentality
- Be Technology proficient in Cellular or Electronics industry
- Strong administrative and organizational skills
- Sound ability to work with and analyze numerical data
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers
- The ability to:

- work well under pressure and under tight deadlines.
- Prioritizes relevant information into an actionable plan.
- Passionate about keeping up to date with the latest technology trends for product development
- Understand and interpret trends relevant to customer profile

**Qualifications Required**:
**Essential**:

- Grade 12 / Senior Certificate

**Preferred**:

- A relevant qualification in Retail, Administration, Marketing or a related field

**Job Related Knowledge**:

- A comprehensive understanding of SA’s value retail market, customers and competitors
- A practical grasp of Cellular or Electronics landscape, would be advantageous.
- Relevant product knowledge with regards to technology would be advantageous
- An understanding of retail cycle and buying processes