Buyers Assistant - Cosmetics at TFG (The Foschini Group)

Position Description:

Bring your love of Beauty and Fashion, your creativity and your passion to create meaningful trend right and beauty experiences for our customers. Bring your vibrancy that influences your energy that radiates and your desire to stay connected to womanhood. You are confident. You are fashionable. You are youthful. You are a creator. And at Foschini, we are too. So join our top-to-toe Beauty and Fashion community, and become a creator at Foschini.

This role will serve as a position that will provide administrative support to Buying, an opportunity to grow in a challenging environment and to apply knowledge acquired from a Beauty -related qualification. We are looking for individuals with a passion for Beauty, Beauty trends and retail, to drive the brand’s successes.

As a Buyer’s Assistant, your responsibilities will include:

•   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 of spreadsheet and reports.
•   Maintaining quality assurance control and audit  of samples.
•   Building constructive and mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers.
•   All preparations prior to presentations
•   General office administration and ad hoc duties  as required by the department.

The successful candidate must:

•   Be highly organised, numerate, and have exceptional co-ordination ability
•   Have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to build and maintain working relationships incl. being helpful and assist where necessary in the department.
•   Show initiative, be pro-active, enthusiastic and self-motivated
•   Have high energy levels
•   Have the ability to multi-task and be flexible
•   Excel in a pressurised environment
•   Have a problem-solving approach to work
•   Able to work with a large workload and remain efficient
•   Must be able to work with a team
•   Must possess a positive attitude
•   Have a minimum of a Matric Qualification
•   Have a working knowledge of Ms Word and Excel (PMM/Internal systems knowledge would be advantageous)
•   Previous experience as a Buyer's Assistant is required