Buyer,Retail Job Turffontein Gauteng South Africa,Retail

Location: Turffontein

BUYER

To manage all aspects of the merchandise procurement function within the store for store operations

Location:

Rustenburg & Vryburg

PERFORMANCE & MEASUREMENT:

Assist as a member of the management team of the store in:

-Achievement of agreed Top Line Budget.
-Achievement of agreed Gross Profit % Budget.
-Achievement of agreed strategic Basket Size and Feet count.
-Achievement of agreed strategic departmental participations & GP%.
-Shrinkage in line with Budgeted %.
-Stock Holding not to exceed 4.5 weeks.

STOCK MANAGEMENT & BUYING CONTROLS:

Ensure that the store has a full range of appropriate products to suit the needs of the consumer both retail and wholesale.
Ensure that the store is well merchandised and according to rate of sale and that top 250 lines are in stock at all times & ticketed.
Ensure Stock Card System & Supplier Cycle Sheets are well maintained and used with all Suppliers and all products. (Direct and UMS Suppliers).
Stock purchases to be in-line with ROS (Rate of Sale).
Ensure all products have a P.I. label and at least 1 Shelf Talker on every module.
Ensure promotions are correctly merchandised and pricing in place, with correct P.I. label and all Promotional Products have a Shelf Talker.
Ends planners (Visible in GM’s Office) in accordance with Supplier activity, income collected and generically positioned.
Top 20 suppliers’ performance & review meetings- to be scheduled monthly and forward planning to be completed in terms of activities/ promotion/ Ad hoc income and Cycle deals on products for the purpose of marketing the products on leaflet.
Selling and income on ends to be negotiated, claims signed and income recorded on Income Statement
- End Income recorded as other income.
Purchases buying Ratio’s to be in line with Sales
- Stockholding not to exceed 4.5 weeks.
Signing-off all purchase orders and receipts on a daily basis.
All GRV’s to be checked
- Monitor Input GP by line and invoice/ SOH/ in accordance to daily & weekly Purchase Budget.
Ensure that all claims are claimed against supplier e.g., Tallies, over-pricing, Supplier contributions, Ends, Shorts and returns.
All returns to be monitored closely e.g., Expired stock, swell allowances and returns to suppliers for overstocks and damages
Weekly SPM to be completed in order to track opposition pricing- action accordingly.
Top 200 lines CSH (Consolidated Store Holdings) Report to be completed weekly in order to track Costs, Selling, SOH and average Rate of Sale by product.

MARKETING:

Build & Maintain supplier relationship through interaction and dealings.
Identifying of lines for promotions & price setting in accordance with market pricing.
Grow market share through interaction with customers, community, suppliers and trading partners.
Visiting of customers:
Visit top 20 customers weekly and do bulk dealing through sharing marketing trends and ideas.
Look at the area demographics and LSM groups that you do direct marketing too. (Know your customers.).
Constant Floor and Customer interaction to ensure that “understanding” of the customer is known and the market understood.
Promote aggressively via Leaflets (Suppliers, Price, Product, Range & leaflet competitions), Local Radio advertising & sms’es.
Promote Stockvels & Christmas Stamps through-out the year.
Arranging of supplier activities on weekends e.g., Wet Demos.

DAILY BUDGETIING, SALES, REPORTS AND TARGETS:

Daily floor walks and Actioning- assist in setting targets as the management team for daily, weekly and monthly. Follow-up daily and increase store standards.
Meeting of deadlines on financial info, reports & Promotional activities.
Monitor customer buying- buying card customers & customers “open to buy’s” in terms of available credit facilities.

LOSS CONTROL:

Ensure that losses of all kinds are under control. (Minimize damages, expired stock etc)
Ensure that shrinkage is managed through doing daily hazard counts.
Ensure that 2nd checks are done at receiving and recorded in 2nd Checks Management book.
All Empties Controls to be in place and stock counted daily with identifying variances by line with corrective action.
Ensure that all till shorts are eliminated and action taken where required.
Ensure the…


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