Assistant Buyer/ Junior Buyer

1 week ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Unineed Limited Full time

Unineed is fast-growing Cross-border e-commerce company, powered by our bespoke system **Xtopus**, which enables seamless global sales through major digital marketing channels. Specialising in beauty and lifestyle, we currently serve customers in over 150 countries from fulfilment centres in **Glasgow**, **China**, **Texas**and **Spain**.

As a team of young entrepreneurs with a bold vision, our mission is to become the **industry leader in cross-border e-commerce** within the next 10 years, and a **global leader in 20**. We're on the lookout for talented individuals who share our ambition and drive.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage offers and orders for existing suppliers
- Develop suppliers for new ranges of products, brands and categories to drive growth
- Product research for different marketplaces and develop product ranges for the specific marketplace
- Complete regular competitor analysis to ensure our product range and prices are competitive
- Budgeting for buying
- Purchasing of office and logistics supplies
- Negotiating with suppliers to reduce costs, whilst building strong relationships
- Contacting suppliers for product availability and lead times
- Identifying savings and business improvement opportunities
- Relentlessly driving purchase cost down
- Assisting with the accuracy of stock levels
- Forecasting, allocation and stock replenishment to maximise sales and conversion
- Negotiation of exclusive offers
- Liaise with third party logistic companies and dealing with import and export documents
- Following up on shipments
- Making sure all products purchased are correctly uploaded on the website
- Liaise with the marketing team to make sure all products are planned in the promotions
- Work closely with the marketing team to understand the market trends, sourcing new brands and products based on these findings
- Analyze performance by product type and marketing channel, highlighting any gaps and opportunities
- Producing product performance reports & buying KPIs

**Requirements**:

- Ability to use own initiative and work independently
- Excellent communication skills to work well with remote teams in UK, Spain and China
- Analytical skills are essential, this is an excel heavy role where analyzing data is central to success.
- You need to be a visionary and understand Unineed's long-term global vison
- You need to have strong leadership skills
- You need to be a 'people person' to fit with the company culture and team
- Previous logistic experience is preferred but not essential
- Good negotiation skills
- Strong commercial awareness, high attention to detail and accuracy in reporting information
- Ability to build trust and develop strong relationships both internally and externally

Work Remotely
- No

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

Pay: £27,000.00-£32,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Employee discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Buyer

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