Food Buying Category Assistant | Retail | Marks & Spencer | UAE
Al-Futtaim
- United Arab Emirates
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assisting the Buyer with the selection of the right commercial offer
- Researching new suppliers and making recommendations
- Reviewing retail/buying prices and margins regularly
- Regularly review competitors and wider market to monitor prices, range, suppliers, trends and new products
- Understanding of the merchandising process, product lifecycle and being able to come up with relevant proposals and recommendations for action.
- Ensuring products are purchased at the right time, to specification and at a competitive price.
- Following up on orders placed and working close with vendors & the logistics team to resolve shipping/delivery issues and assure the target stock levels are met
- Planning, monitoring and maintaining suitable inventory levels
- Creating on a regular base & ad hoc business reports such as newness sales report etc as and when required
- Substituting the buyer adequately when necessary to ensure business needs are met and assist in additional activities related to new store opening in UAE and other countries
- Training and mentoring new Category Assistants and sharing best practices with them
- Proactively support e commerce team and category development team on their requirements
- Placing orders with UK
- Raising claims to UK for any issues
- Strong analytical skills
- Very strong commercial awareness and creative skills.
- Decisive and able to work in a super fast paced environment
- Strong communication, analytical and organizational skills.
- Display delegation skills, priorities within delegated tasks and manage deadlines.
- Practice excellent time management skills and ability to cope under pressure
- Bachelor Degree (Masters Preferred)
- 3-4 years' experience in in any Food establishment
- Either 3 years in a similar role or 3-4 years product experience in another role coupled with SAP knowledge and advanced excel skill
- Individual Accountability
- Continuous Improvement
- Personal Leadership
- Teamwork
- Attention to Detail
- Highly Numerate
- Product Confident
- Good Communicator