Assistant Buyer - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Pure 4 Recruitment Limited
Description
My client, who are currently growing, are looking to recruit an Assistant Buyer to join their team.
You role purpose will be to provide support in delivering a great customer experience through excellent product availability and quality and ensuring that the business is the partner of choice with our key suppliers, whilst delivering within Gross Margin% and Stock Cover targets.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Support demand forecasting at Category & Key SKU level
- Support management of relationships with key suppliers
- Input into Pipeline Management process to maximise sales revenues & delight customers
- Delivery date management to allow business to forward sell with confidence and to keep customers updated on when their products will arrive (via Sales team)
- Product set up and input of product information and classifications within system
- Placing orders with suppliers for products at agreed prices
- Tracking shipment & delivery dates on orders and updating systems accordingly
- Support management of inflow of stock into warehouse in conjunction with inbound team
- Identifying & recommending corrective actions on overstocks
- Support annual stock count
- Checking supplier invoices match to Purchase Orders and agreed pricing and terms
- Develop suite of reporting to achieve greater efficiencies
About You
- Numerical and analytical to produce insights to support your decision making and actions
- Attention to detail and able to handle significant amount of data (the SKU count is large). You should also be able to zoom out where required to see bigger picture
- Competent with Excel and some experience of using software systems
- Curious, a good listener, with a desire to learn. Industry knowledge is not a necessity
- Team player who is prepared to help other areas of the business when required
- Most importantly, you want to commit to a journey of growing a business over a number of years. You want to input to that growth through what you do, to grow yourself, and take on more and more responsibility every few months
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