Buying Assistant

Buying Assistant

Birmingham

Up to £30,000 DOE

I am currently recruiting for a Buying Assistant to join a well-established retailer to join the team based within their Midlands head office. You will be responsible for assisting the Buying Team to ensure continued growth within the category. As a Buying Assistant, you will need to be driven and dynamic and thrive working in a fast-paced retail environment.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Providing support to the Buying department
• Creating new product listings on the system
• Raising and inputting supplier invoices
• Assisting in collating promotional information from suppliers to build the promotional pack for each category.
• Collating and inputting supplier information
• Work cross functionally with Buying & logistics to ensure departmental relationships are maintained.
• Liaising with internal customers, suppliers and other departments
• Reviewing pricing & analysing figures within Excel
• Maintaining data records and files

Key requirement for the role;

• Experience with in Buying or a relevant degree
• Highly accurate with a good attention to detail
• Ability to manage a varied workload with conflicting deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to liaise effectively at all levels.
• Good level of education – degree is preferable.
• Excellent understanding of all MS Office products specifically Excel

In return they are offering a fantastic working environment so if you think you have the right experience as a Buying Assistant or strong Administrative skills and want to be given the opportunity to develop your career, then get in touch and apply today.