Buying Manager

6 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 99986a91-d176-4f91-a617-84e604b7f4a7 Full time R1 200 000 - R2 400 000 per year

Purpose of the job

To manage a range of related purchasing departments in a division, ensuring optimised profitability by providing a range of commodities that is the most wanted to the Pep consumer market and through the application of appropriate margins and price points

Role Expectations

Current trade
- manage weekly performance activities and action plans through supporting the team. Reporting of current trade to the senior executive team, monitoring defined KPIs against strategic intent.

Post seasonal reviews
and
seasonal strategy-
formulate a supplier strategy that is risk-balanced in collaboration with the sourcing team.

Travel
locally and internationally as per business requirements

Key Responsibilities

  • Operational result management
  • Customer management by managing the accurate identification of customers needs
  • Leading the Buying team
  • Business Unit Management
  • Managed Relationships

Liaise with stakeholders/role players outside own division to ensure alignment,

address and improve strategic and escalated operational issues

  • Supplier management, sourcing suppliers and products
  • Ad hoc responsibilities

Required Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

  • Tertiary qualification, preferably purchasing / business management, consumer market and/or marketing management
  • 5 - 8 years' Buyer experience and in various departments (at least 3)
  • Must have managed a team
  • Must have managed own budget
  • Fabric knowledge
  • Financial management skills
  • PC literacy
  • Presentation skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Meeting facilitation skills
  • In-depth understanding of the buying process
  • Understanding of the planning process; store operational process; supply chain processes; market understanding; marketing understanding; and product knowledge
  • Code 8 Driver's Licence
  • Willingness to travel

●
Competencies:
Performing under pressure, Structuring, Commercial drive, Stress resistance, Willingness to Change, Motivating, Providing Feedback, Helicopter view, Innovating

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date of this position, please regard your
application as being unsuccessful.

PEP strives for equal opportunity in terms of its employment equity guidelines.

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