Purpose of the role:
To effectively but to ensure constant sales growth and increase in gross margins coupled with necessary advertising spend recoupment.
Key Receivers of Work:
Stores, DC’s, Buyer assistant, suppliers, Divisional advertising co-ordinators.
Product Range and line determination:
- 1st to market
- Price Competitiveness
- Comprehensive coverage categories
- Strategy and Brand logic applied
- Good Understanding of categories
- Range Rationalization
- Effective administration maintained (complete and up-to-date)
Product Pricing (Cost and Selling Prices):
- Competitive / cheapest
- Pricing objectives based on knowledge of market prices / current trends / market leaders
- Effective utilization of negotiating skills to achieve pricing objectives
- Demonstrates personal drive to obtain best cost price
- Effective administration maintained (complete & up-do-date)
- Maintains confidentiality of sensitive information
Advertising and Promotions:
- Line selection
- Price points
- Competitor pricing
- Stock availability at suppliers
- Timeous supply of information to marketing coordinator
- Effective administration maintained (complete & up-do-date)
Manager Buyer Assistants:
- Allocates work and sets priorities
- Monitors progress and quality
- Resolves escalated issues / Provides support
- Develops – create learning opportunities / delegates tasks / expand role / coaches
- Provides regular performance feedback
- Assist Senior Buyer in selection of buyer assistant
Resolve Stock Level Issues in Stores and DC’s:
- Reaction time to resolve
- Awareness of price movements to advise DC pro-actively
- Awareness of shortages to pro-actively avoid client shortages
- Effective administration maintained (complete & up-do-date)
Merchandising Layout Determination:
- Practical
- Reflects understanding of shopper patterns
- Timeous communication with Division
- Effective administration maintained (complete & up-do-date)
Qualifications/ Education
- Grade 12 / Matric Essential
- Business diploma or degree will be desirable
Experience
- Successful completion of Trainee Buyer Program or experience as a Buyer in Food Retail
Functional Competencies
- Basic computer literacy
- Administrative skills (complete and up-to-date)
- Working knowledge of Buying-Systems
Summary of Behavioural competencies
Essential:
- Persuading and influencing
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Analysing
- Relating, networking and communicating information
- Planning and organising
- Deciding and initiating action
- Coping with pressures and setbacks
Desirable:
- Adapting and responding to change
- Developing others
