Buyers Assistant – Kensington needed at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Job Description

• Assist the buyer in compiling and executing the category plans in line with the strategy, objectives and category group guidelines on format/margin and assortment strategies. Provide day to day administrative support to optimize the performance (i.e. sales and cash margins) of the categories by being customer focused.

Minimum requirements

• University degree
• 3 Years Retail experience
• Proficiency in SAP and BW, MS Outlook and MS Word
• Good Excel skills

Competencies  

• Good communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Good numerical reasoning
• Organised, methodical and structured
• Providing service excellence to internal and external customers
• Ability to plan and co-ordinate a task/job realistically
• Task commitment and goal directed
• Attention to detail
• Be able to work under pressure, sense of urgency

Key responsibilities

• To be able to collate and pull adhoc statistical and exception reports on request
• To analyse reports, investigate anomalies and take appropriate action
• Prepare vendor take-on forms and check all supporting documents
• To attend buyer’s negotiations with suppliers
• Monitor and manage execution of buying contracts and SLA’s to the DC’s
• To identify and verify PnP article data with external systems ensuring master data alignment
• To review and communicate aged and exit stock reports for buyer
• To be able to interact with relevant stakeholders on sales uplift information (indicator and stock management)
• To be able to investigate all price queries for the buyer
• To ensure all product life cycle activities are executed successfully
• Monitor performance of newly listed products and inform buyer
• Provide support to customer care teams
• To generate and analyse exception reports to ensure rebate target achieved
• Request creation of Article through the Electronic article take-on
• Maintain emergency pricing.