Buying and Merchandising Assistant

3 weeks ago


East of England, United Kingdom BIAZA Full time

Banham Zoological Gardens
- East Anglia**Contact**:
**Sector**:

- PR/Marketing**Type**:

- Paid**Contract type**:

- Full-time / Part-time**Salary**:

- £22,000 FTE**We are hiring**

**Buying and Merchandising Assistant**

£22,000 FTE

For the right person this can be a flexible role, either a part time (min 25 hours of 5 hours a day) or a full time role max 40 hours. Monday - Friday working.

**Who are we?**

We are the charity which runs Banham Zoological Gardens in Norfolk and Africa Alive Zoological Reserve in Suffolk.

Our mission is to Preserve Wild Futures by protecting endangered species, inspiring, and engaging with the fascination of nature, and to spark a lifelong interest in people of all ages to help us protect the rich diversity of our previous world, for all our futures. Our zoological reserve and zoological gardens are places where everyone can connect peacefully with animals and enjoy native wildlife, flora, and fauna in our green open spaces, improving wellbeing.

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for an ambitious and hard-working Buying and Merchandising Assistant to join our dynamic commercial team within buying and merchandising based at Banham Zoo.

The key purpose of the Buying and Merchandising Assistant is keeping accurate records of all company products within the internal system Mstore, & the customer facing website. To consult with suppliers to ensure any delays in products are quickly notified to the buying and merchandising team. Because our products can encompass a multitude of departments, you will need to collaborate with a number of departments and juggle a busy workload, depending on the day and season dependant on seasonal support changes. Daily duties include: Helping to build good supplier and internal employee relations; loading new products on to Mstore; chasing delivery dates with suppliers and elevating issues to the buyer and/pr merchandiser; keeping accurate records; closing off orders on the system and matching orders with supplier invoices; Manage our products within M-store and uploading new cost prices or supply changes; placing orders with suppliers across primarily retail but also catering; loading new products onto the website & new information changes so we continuously delight our visitors and members. Everyday really is different in this unique setting (A full Job Description is available on request).

**You will have**
- A genuine interest in developing a career within buying and merchandising of a commercially led business
- Experience with Mstore
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to retain information.
- Excellent word, excel, PowerPoint.
- Ability to prioritise and very well organised.
- Able to challenge ideas respectably.
- Demonstrate a consistent, collaborative, and respectful approach to management and building relationships with other teams.
- Respect confidentiality.
- Strong critical thinking skills and able to help others to resolve them.
- Stays calm in difficult situations.
- Able to stay focused on tasks in hand.
- Ability to listen and have empathy and understanding.

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