Assistant Buyer - Coricraft at TFG (The Foschini Group)

Key Responsibilities:

• Administratively supporting all aspects of the buying process.  
• Ensuring timeous placement of orders onto the purchasing system.  
• Maintaining a control system for the sample room.  
• Compiling, balancing, and updating spreadsheets and reports.  
• Maintaining quality assurance control and audit of samples.  
• All preparations prior to presentations  
• Completing all administrative documentation that is related to loading products on to the merchandise system.  
• Building constructive and mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers.  
• Communicating with suppliers to gather all information required to load product.  
• Processing of all amendments and communicating changes to relevant parties.  
• Supporting the customer service team in resolving product and order queries and complaints and product sourcing and pricing queries.  
• Managing orders through the critical path process.  
• Pulling of weekly reports on incoming stock and liaising with suppliers for keep samples.  
• Managing sample process between retail and production.  
• Prepping of product and documents for quarterly SWOT's  
• Pulling samples / images for weekly sales reports or product meetings as requested by the buyer.  
• Assisting Buyers with order placements.  
• Assist with coordination of QA samples  

Qualification and Experience: 

• Matric, Higher Certificate or Diploma  
• 2- 3 years’ experience as a Buying Assistant  
• Integral understanding of the retail buying process  
• A good working knowledge of the current computer software packages (knowledge of Excel, Word & E-mail would be preferable).  

Skills: 

• Planning & Organising  
• Policy & Procedures 
• Market Research and Analysis 
• Supplier Management