Retail Buyer (Category Manager)
Retail, Toys / Children
Minimum Requirements
- Product Development
- Negotiating
- Analysing sales data
- Detail orientated and a creative problem solver
- Ability to persuade others
- National Diploma or Degree in business related field with Retail Buying as a subject
- What are we looking for?
- d Retail Buyer (Category Manager) to support our high-performing team in driving the continued profitability of our stores
- Positive attitude, drive, passion and strong retail buying
- You will be required to work with a wide variety of stakeholders from both within the business and with our supply base and must therefore possess excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and problem solving
- You will need to develop an in-depth knowledge of our products and our customers, as well as the ability to stay on top of category trends, technologies, innovation, competition and supplier capability
- Critical and analytical thinking
- Excellent communication
- in retail merchandising tools and Microsoft tools/applications such as Excel and Outlook
- Excellent organisational
- and the ability to multi task in a busy environment
- At least 5 years
- in Retail Buying, preferably in the fields of gaming or electronics
Responsibilities
- Sales planning
- Forecasting
- Strategy Development
- Analysing Competition
- Financial Analysis, Pricing / OTB Planning
- Building Assortment and Range Plan
- SKU / Product / System Management
- Marketing / Advertising & Promotions
- Supplier Management/Negotiation
- Leadership / Talent Enhancement & Training
- Cross Functional Partnership
- To meet sales and margins budget through selecting appropriate product ranges in order to provide our shopper with the widest breadth of product at the best possible value
- Responsible for evaluation, forecasting, selection and procurement of all merchandise. The Buyer is accountable for range management, department strategies, sales, profits, margins, stock turn for respective department as well as product quality control
- Expert level
- Desired Qualification and
