Buying Assistant

5 days ago


Sheffield, United Kingdom Vital Pet Group Full time

**Job Title**:Buying Assistant

**Department**:Buying & Stock Control

**Reports To**:Head of Commercial

**General Description**:
Vital Pet Group Ltd. offers exciting career opportunities for driven, collaborative individuals who are experts in their field. Now under new ownership, this progressive company is looking for people who will help to deliver sustained business growth both for Vital and its network of pet product retailers and suppliers.

People who work at Vital are empowered to make the decisions that drive value for customers and are rewarded for developing innovative solutions.

The Buying Assistant is a new role within the department and will work closely with the Company’s

Buyers and Head of Department in order to support the strategic sourcing of product ranges appropriate to the requirements of our diverse network of pet product retailers.

**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Work closely with the Buying team to manage products through set up and into the business.
- Ensure the correct range of products are available to the business with the best price.
- With the support of the Buyers, negotiate effectively, primarily around terms and product range.
- Maintain accurate range information enabling the team to make effective commercial decisions.
- Contribute to the preparation of weekly reports.
- Proactively source suppliers and product.
- Maintain and build relationships with suppliers in order to form a partnership approach;
- Be involved with the set-up of new suppliers, ensuring all paperwork is filled in and returned in a timely manner
- Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to keep them informed of developments in product range and availability.
- Ensure internal departments are made aware of any stock availability issues and changes to product.
- Conduct price and range comparisons to ensure the company remains competitive.
- Manage the cost, sales, margins and range of your assigned categories.
- Attend and partake in trade shows.

**Person Specification**

**Areas to be assessed Details Essential Desirable**

**Experience Required**
- Experience in a Buying or Supply Chain Role
- Required Experience of sourcing brands and product in role ranges
- Experience of working with MS Outlook
- Competent in the use of MS Excel (formulas, pivots, etc.)

**Attainment/Qualifications**
- Degree qualified - preferably in a Business is desirable

**Competencies**
- Effective communicator with an ability to engage internal and external stakeholders
- Skills and abilities required for engage internal and external stakeholders effective performance Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Good analytical skills
- Can multi task and is happy to be challenged by a fast pace role with a high interruption level
- Capable of working unsupervised and use own initiative.
- Have strong numerical skills, ability to work accurately with data
- Effective team-worker - understanding and responding to the needs of others

**Personal qualities **Enthusiastic Y
- Disposition and characteristics Collaborative relevant to the job Diligent
- Organised
- Can-do attitude

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Sheffield, S35 2PY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)


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