Food Buying Category Assistant

Overview of the role:

The Buying Category Assistant’s assist the food buyer to process all food orders, stakeholder management, assist preparing retail and pricing strategies, placing and tracking purchase orders, managing inventory and keeping track of market trends.

What you will do:-

Description of Accountability:

• Assisting the Buyer with the selection of the right commercial offer
• Researching new suppliers and making recommendations
• Reviewing retail/buying prices and margins regularly
• Regularly review competitors and wider market to monitor prices, range, suppliers, trends and new products
• Understanding of the merchandising process, product lifecycle and being able to come up with relevant proposals and recommendations for action.

PO Management

• Ensuring products are purchased at the right time, to specification and at a competitive price.
• Following up on orders placed and working close with vendors & the logistics team to resolve shipping/delivery issues and assure the target stock levels are met
• Planning, monitoring and maintaining suitable inventory levels

Ad Hoc & Reporting

• Creating on a regular base & ad hoc business reports such as newness sales report etc as and when required
• Substituting the buyer adequately when necessary to ensure business needs are met and assist in additional activities related to new store opening in UAE and other countries
• Training and mentoring new Category Assistants and sharing best practices with them
• Proactively support e commerce team and category development team on their requirements
• Placing orders with UK
• Raising claims to UK for any issues