National Buyer

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Summary:

Negotiate national cycle and promotional deals with suppliers and ensures best costs to ensure competitiveness in the market while ensuring category margins are achieved

FUNCTIONS / RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supplier Engagement:

• Negotiate national cycle and promotional deals and ensure best costs to ensure competitiveness in market while ensuring category margins are achieved
• Manage supplier behaviour including service levels, competitiveness, stock availability and range
• Maintain and update supplier listings and ensure loaded by CSF team and ensure listings are compliant
• Measure regional and store performance via supplier review, and compare to DW
• Review DSOH and forecast category specific inflation
• Drive first to market on NPD
• Negotiate trading terms
• Negotiate and manage all marketing spends according to a promotional grid together with growth incentives
• Negotiate and implement JBP with selected suppliers
• Ensure suppliers are aligned to Jumbo objectives including, GMROI, stock holding and obsolete stock
• Manage support of all franchise, banner groups and private label initiatives
• Negotiate and facilitate all DC allowances

Regional Buyer Engagement:

• Provide direction in category management, ranging, margin mix and stock levels
• Communicate merchandise strategy and provide strategic direction to regional teams
• Communicate PI's and suggest stock cover against PI's a deal changes
• Communicate and ensure regional alignment with JBP
• Assist in all supplier related issues
• Communicate and manage all group or chain growth incentives

Store Engagement:

• Provide direction in category management, ranging, margin mix and stock levels
• Communicate PI's and suggest stock cover against PI's a deal changes
• Assist in all supplier related issues
• Selective trading with individual stores to achieve certain objectives
• Visit stores to ensure merchandise standards are according to plan

Administration:

• Ensure monthly procurement reports are completes on time
• To track competitor pricing on a weekly basis and action
• Measure overall category sales, margin and stockholding according to plan
• Update supplier JBP measures
• Ensure deal continuity
• Ensure AAS and growth targets are achieved and reconciliated within 60 days
• Review and action obsolete stock

Employee Management and development:

• Carrying out the performance appraisals of the buying team twice yearly.
• Ensuring the fulfilment of staff training requirements as per the individual development plans
• Management of staff turnover and retention within the department.

Self-Management:

• Demonstrate consistent application of internal policies and procedures
• Escalate identified problems to relevant business managers
• Promote harmony and teamwork
• Promote sharing of knowledge through informal and formal channels
• Apply knowledge of the organisational systems, structures, policies and procedures to achieve strategic objectives
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Maintain a positive attitude
• Respond openly to feedback
• Take ownership for driving own career development
• Manage own development (skills and knowledge)
• Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
• Communicate effectively, maintaining relationships

Minimum Academic, Professional Qualifications & Experience required for this position

• Matric
• Certification in Buying/ Category Management
• 3-5 years business experience in Wholesale and/or Retail.
• MS Office computer skills iessential

"Employment Equity Policy Requirements may be applicable"

Massmart is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all people including people with disabilities to apply for the role. Due to the volume of applications we receive, should you not hear from us within 14 days of your application, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.

"Please note that only the following information is required in your CV:

Contact details (email and contact number); Full name; Date of birth; Race; Gender; Disability status; Location (Current city/town of residence); Qualifications and training; Work experience; Memberships (if any); Personal and technical skills, including computer literacy."

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