Buying Assistant

Rise Resourcing; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Rise Resourcing is recruiting a Buying Assistant for a well-established Midlands retailer based at their head office. You will support the Buying Team to help drive growth within the category in a fast-paced retail environment.

You will create new product listings, raise supplier invoices, collate promotional information, input supplier data, and work cross-functionally with Buying & logistics while liaising with internal teams and suppliers to optimise pricing and records.

Qualifications

• Experience within Buying or a relevant degree.
• Highly accurate with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage a varied workload with deadlines.
• Excellent communication at all levels.
• Degree is preferable.
• Excellent understanding of MS Office, especially Excel.

Responsibilities

• Assist Buying team to support growth in the category.
• Create new product listings on the system.
• Raise and input supplier invoices.
• Collate promotional information from suppliers for promotional packs.
• Collate and input supplier information.
• Coordinate with Buying & logistics to maintain relationships.
• Liaise with internal customers, suppliers and other departments.
• Review pricing and analyse figures in Excel.
• Maintain data records and files.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Time management

MS Office

Supplier liaison

Data entry

Education

Degree preferred

Tools

Excel

Job description

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 within 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,