Buyer - Furniture / Home (Far East Sourcing)

3 weeks ago

Quedgeley, United Kingdom Mackenzie Jones Full time

Buyer - Furniture / Home (Far East Sourcing)

Furniture and Home Furnishings omnichannel retailer

📍 Quedgeley near Gloucester (hybrid / remote - 2-3 days in the office)

£45,000

The opportunity:


Do have far east sourcing experience and want to grow your experience working for a leading omnichannel retailer?


If you have far east buying experience, especially on wood and want to work in a relaxed and flexible culture with ambitious growth plans, speak to me


What will my accountabilities be?

· Buy product ranges hat fit and fulfil our business strategy.

· Manage suppliers, including pricing negotiation, NPD selection, contract negotiations and commitments, maintain product specifications and ensure all products and administration is legally compliant in relevant markets.

· Monitor and maintain buying margin to hit budget. Recommending actions if budgets are not being hit and maintained.

· Work with internal colleagues to ensure zero wastage and constant supply from internally manufactured products.

· Tender relevant ranges to increase margins.

· Reduce packaging use to increase sustainability and reduce costs and ensure all packaging in compliant with internal operational machinery.

· Ensure all customs paperwork and EUTR assessments arrive from suppliers on time and in full.

· Work with Buying Admin Assistant to ensure that all the correct data is loaded on to the internal systems.

· Support Buying & Merchandising team with long term sourcing strategy.

· Support merchandising colleagues to resolve any short-term changes in supply and deliver against availability targets.


Who will I be working with?

This is a great team with lots of collaboration and you will work closely with the Merchandising team.


A great candidate will have:

Retail buying background with a love of the numbers as well as an eye for product

Experience developing and sourcing product in the Far East

An understand of how to trade through promotions whilst also having the best margin

Ideally furniture or home / kitchen category experience


What happens next?

Apply today with your most up-to-date CV that will be reviewed by our MKJ Recruitment team.

First Stage: 1 hour virtual meeting with the hiring manager. Second Stage: In person interview at their offices.


People are at the heart of everything we do. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process that means people can be their best authentic self.

We would love to reply to all applications, regrettably we are unable to do so due to the high volumes we receive, so if you do not hear back within 14 days unfortunately on this role it won’t be progressing. It is possible that the position could be in the process of closing, so chalk it up to bad timing. But, have no fear There will be more opportunities. Follow us at Mackenzie Jones Recruitment so you don’t miss them. 👀

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