Job Description

Overview of the role
To be passionate in supporting our Category Teams with the selection and procurement of products. The Buying Assistant's responsibilities include maintaining positive vendor relations, preparing retail and pricing strategies, placing and tracking purchase orders, managing inventory and keeping track of market trends.
To be successful as a Buying Assistant, you should be confident, highly organized and an excellent communicator. An outstanding Buying Assistant has an analytical mind and excellent negotiating skills. The Buying Assistant communicates with suppliers, planning, visual merchandising, marketing and logistics teams to support the Category Manager, maximising the effectiveness of the Category Teams, to achieve sales, profits and market share objectives for the Business.
What you will do
Monitor Offers

• Assisting the Category manager with the selection of the right commercial offer

• Researching new suppliers and making recommendations to the Category manager

• Reviewing retail/buying prices and margins regularly

• Regularly review competitors and wider market to monitor prices, range, suppliers, trends and new products

• Understanding of the merchandising process, product lifecycle and being able to come up with relevant proposals and recommendations for action.

• Ensuring products are purchased at the right time, to specification and at a competitive price.

• Following up on orders placed and working close with vendors & the logistics team to resolve shipping/delivery issues and assure the target stock levels are met

• Planning, monitoring and maintaining suitable inventory levels

• Liaise with suppliers on correct completion of article master templates in order to provide accurate and timely information to the

• Master Data Team (MDT)

• Creating on a regular base & ad hoc business reports such as newness sales report etc as and when required

• Substituting for the Category Manager adequately when necessary to ensure business needs are met and assist in additional activities related to new store opening in UAE and other countries

• Training and mentoring new Buying Assistants and sharing best practices with them

• Proactively support e commerce team and category development team on their requirements o Ability to produce accurate and timely reports

• Strong communication to all departments

• Collaborative approach

• Sharing best sellers and newness to achieve e-com goals