Buying Assistant

14 hours ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Pink Recruitment Solutions Limited Full time

We are looking for a Buying Assistant to work for a fantastic global company.

The buying assistant is responsible for providing administration support to the buying & branded offers team. Key outputs in this role are to support growth in category sales, margin and central income (CI) through producing / analysing accurate, detailed and timely administration and data; whilst building and maintaining strong relationships, with a strong bias towards customer.

Key Accountabilities
- Ensure all plans and decisions are truly customer-led
- Provide administration and data support to the team - whilst not an exhaustive list, key elements will include:

- New and change of product forms, promotional forms, turnover and pricing documents, contact lists
- Support category buyers in maintaining supplier relationships and delivering profit - examples will include raising, tracking and chasing invoices, proof-reading and uploading terms / JBPs, arranging meetings
- Work closely with the wider trading team to support as required (i.e. supply chain demand), with a strong dotted-line into the price & product manger whom a lot of the administration will be required by
- Own / support and optimise existing trading meetings and processes / ways of working - examples will include product change cycle (PCP), secondary space planning meeting, buyers meeting
- Support the buying and branded offers manager with ad-hoc administration and data as required
- Lead / support regular team meetings (i.e. preparing end-of-week numbers, maintaining agenda and actions-logs
- Support the analysis of category performance, customer data / insight and market trends to plan to drive sales and profit
- Complete periodic store visits and supplier meetings as required
- Support with the opportunity new and emerging channels (i.e. digital) present
- Work alongside the wider business (i.e. marketing and retail operations) as required - i.e. comms

Knowledge & Experience
- Experience and a proven ability in offering strong administrational support to enable outstanding performance
- Relevant experience within a trading environment preferable, but not essential
- Experience of remaining highly motivated whilst managing pressure / conflict
- Strong team-working skills with the ability to work with others across the retail business
- Highly numerate with strong analytical and MS Office skills
- SAP experience preferable, but not essential
- Strong communicator with the ability to tailor language and style dependant on audience

This role will be initially on a 6 month contract basis, but there is a strong chance of the contract being extended.

You will be offered a competitive day rate

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year


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