Replenishment Buyer

**Replenishment Buyer - Trading Foodservice**

Job Req ID: 3628

Job Posting Closing Date: 11:59pm on Monday 27th February 2023.

**Replenishment Buyer**
**Attractive Salary, Benefits**
**36.5 Hour week (Hybrid)**
**Newtownabbey**

**A look into the role**

The Reorder department within Henderson Foodservice Ltd plays a vital role in the ongoing success of our foodservice business. This department is responsible for ensuring a continuous supply of the correct products to our loyal and ever-growing customer base, ensuring that their business is running as smoothly as possible.

Due to business needs, we now wish to invite a Replenishment Buyer to join our team on a full-time permanent basis. This is a challenging and highly rewarding position that will offer the successful applicant with both job security and a position within one of Northern Ireland’s top 100 companies to work for.

The role of the Replenishment Buyer will primarily be ordering, planning, and managing stock inventory of assigned products, suppliers and/or categories, to provide agreed service levels to internal and external customers. In addition to this they will liaise with suppliers when needed on stock matters and will expedite new and existing products into the business.

This is an ideal role for an enthusiastic and proactive individual coming from a fast-paced food service or retail background looking for the next stage in their career.

**As Replenishment Buyer you will**:

- Deal with stock Replenishment and inventory control on an agreed range of company products with specific metric accountability
- Review, analyse and forecast stock requirements
- Control the movement of stock levels to prevent overstocks whilst improving service levels
- Co-Ordinate with company suppliers and internal departments to achieve team and company goals
- Work on inbound order issues, returns, supplier recalls and loads prioritization with warehouse operations

**Skills for Success**

Joining us as Replenishment Buyer the minimum criteria you’ll need is:

- Have a minimum of one years’ experience from within a stock replenishment/re-ordering role in either FMCG or multiple food environments.
- Have experience of operating a computerised Inventory Management System.
- Excellent use of MS Office Packages

**The attributes you’ll need include**:

- Strong communication and organisational skills
- Ability to work well in a team

**It is Desirable if you had**:

- Minimum of one years’ experience preferably within the fresh Category of stock replenishment/re-ordering role
- Previous supervisory experience
- Experience of ordering stock for multiple restaurant chains

**Our Values**

**Ambition** - We always strive to be better. We seek new challenges and look for ways to do things better.

**Customer First **- We provide exceptional service. We put customers at the heart of everything and support our communities.

**Teamwork **- We succeed together. We help colleagues to succeed, and we share our knowledge and skills.

**Integrity** - We are fair, honest and ethical. We treat everyone with dignity and respect. We are inclusive and champion diversity.

**The Reward**

Our business has been recognised externally for delivering excellence in employment. We value employee development and heavily invest in our people.

Benefits include market competitive salary, contributory pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, employee assistance programme, social club, Perks Offers/Discount scheme throughout UK/Ireland, staff discount (grocery/fuel) at SPAR/EUROSPAR Henderson Group

We are recruiting for two successful applicants, who will work 36.5 hours per week, Monday to Thursday from 09:30 to 17:30 and Friday from 09:30 to 16:30 with a 17:30 finish on Fridays on a rotational basis. Bank holiday cover will also be required on a rotational basis.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent