Job Description
Position: Assistant Buyer
Salary: £17.15p/h
Contract: Temporary - ASAP (6 months with high possibility to go perm)
Location: Coventry CV7, occasional travel to Milton Keynes (Hybrid - at 2-3 days in office)
Working Shifts: Monday to Friday, 37 hours a week, 9-5pm
Coventry Reed Specialist Recruitment are delighted to be representing one of the largest chains of supermarkets in the UK
Our client is looking for an experienced Buyer (furniture)
Administrative Assistant duties include:
- Manage product ranges within assigned categories to deliver a competitive and customer-focused offer.
- Develop and execute category strategies, aligning with business objectives and customer needs.
- Negotiations and commercial tenders with suppliers to secure best value and maintain compliance with procurement policies.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, ensuring quality, availability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Analyse market trends, sales data, and customer insights to inform buying decisions and optimise product performance.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product development, supply chain, and marketing teams to deliver successful outcomes.
- Manage pricing, promotions, and trading plans to achieve KPIs such as sales, margin, and stock availability.
- Administration duties such as maintain sample trackers, cross check artwork documents, manage product unique numbers and information on the database.
Administrative Assistant person specification:
Essential-
- Confident communicator
- Confident with data
- High attention to detail skills is vital
- Be able to work well independently and within a team
- Have a creative flare
- Buying experience within retail (preferably furniture)
- Intermediate Excel skills advantageous (vlookups / formulas /pivots) as working from multiple spreadsheets
This would suit someone who is task driven, self sufficient and a great team player.
Apply today and a Reed representative will guide you through the next steps of your application.
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