Buying Manager

Job Ref #: PEP-697
Industry: Retail
Job Type: Permanent
Positions Available: 1

At PEP we call ourselves Dynamos – we have FUN, work hard, and take ownership of everything we do. We work in teams to create world-class solutions. Being a Dynamo of PEP means you are dynamic, helpful, and believe in making our customers look and feel good.

Job Description

An exciting opportunity has become available for a seasoned buying leader to bring their diversity and define their career at South Africa’s largest single brand retailer as a Buying Manager.

Does the challenge to build on and continue our trajectory of success appeal to your competitive spirit? Have you been dreaming of a role where you can be part of a leadership team that is passionately driven to develop authentically designed products for the South African customer?

If our purpose to make it possible for our remarkable customers to look and feel good resonates with you and you want to offer our remarkable customers products at prices that will delight them, then this opportunity has been especially timed for you.

Purpose of the job

 

To manage a range of related purchasing departments in a division, ensuring optimised profitability by providing a range of commodities that is the most wanted to the Pep consumer market and through the application of appropriate margins and price points

Key Responsibilities

• Operational result management
• Customer management by managing the accurate identification of customers needs
• Leading the Buying team
• Business Unit Management
• Managed Relationships

Liaise with stakeholders / role players outside own division in order to ensure alignment and to address  and improve strategic and escalated operational issues

• Supplier management, sourcing suppliers and products
• Ad hoc responsibilities

Job Requirements

Required Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

• Tertiary qualification, preferably purchasing / business management, consumer market and/or marketing management
• 5 – 8 years’ Buyer experience and in various departments (at least 3)
• Must have managed a team
• Must have managed own budget
• Fabric knowledge
• Financial management skills

• PC literacy
• Presentation skills
• Negotiation skills
• Meeting facilitation skills
• In-depth understanding of the buying process
• Understanding of the planning process; store operational process; supply chain processes; market understanding; marketing understanding; and product knowledge
• Code 8 Driver’s Licence
• Willingness to travel

?   Competencies: Performing under pressure, Structuring, Commercial drive, Stress resistance, Willingness to Change, Motivating, Providing Feedback, Helicopter view,  Innovating

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