Buyer

COLLECTING POOL OF CANDIDATES FOR OUR UPCOMING PROJECTS IN IRAQ!

Key Tasks

• Prepares range /buying plans based on sales budget/forecast with Category Manager / Buying Director sign off.
• Manages product performance, including sell through, to recommend price action, promotional activity and / or reorders.
• Attends international Trade Fairs and Exhibitions to select products, monitor market trends/influences and in order to maintain relationships with key suppliers
• Ensure that optimal stock levels are being maintained across all continuing lines and that business stock target is achieved.
• Clarifies roles and responsibilities of the team and briefs colleagues about what is needed
• Interacts with all cross functional teams, including Retail Operations, Sales, Marketing, Merchandising,
• Finance, OSO, Warehouse, Group Control and IT
• Identifies market opportunities for range extensions in order to grow the category , in line with overall strategy of the HF business
• Ensure effective delivery of all promotional campaigns, discounts and product launches within the agreed promotional calendar.
• Interacts with Sales colleagues on a regular basis to ensure that customer feedback is communicated in order to maximise opportunities within the range
• Sets goals and objectives for the team and monitors against actual performance
• Uses market information to develop plans to promote new and existing products
• Develop and coach junior buying team members 
• Communicate ideas / suggestions for improvement and efficiencies

Key Accountabilities

• Preparation & Maintenance of the buying budget – Preparing an Open-to-Buy plan every month based on the overall directives from the business. Maintaining of buying decisions based on strategies.
• Identification of purchase requirements – Coming up with relevant stock levels across all ranges and meeting actions, ideas to maximize sales and profits. Rationalizing product offering to deliver consumer and market needs. Manage core/ value/ promo/ fusion ranges and stock flow of all lines.
• Range launches – coordinating the launch of new ranges in store, tracking performance of new lines .Managing allocation / replenishment of stock to stores and maintain well-balanced stocks with an effective stock program that is reviewed and revised regularly. 
• Ideal display stock holding – devise ideal stock holding levels for the showrooms and the business across all categories
• Monitoring – best sellers /slow sellers, ageing stock and maximize the fast selling items and find ways to exit of the slow sellers.
• Planning and execution of “Promotions/Sales/Campaigns”
• Product Selection – Selecting products to be put in promotional campaign.
• Price setting – Proposing a sale promo price for the selected SKUs based on pre-decided business parameters
• Merchandise allocation – allocation of sale stock to the showrooms
• Monitoring – Weekly monitoring of on sale stock to enhance sale effectiveness