Re order Buyer

Musgrave Group; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an established industry player as a Re-order Buyer in Belfast, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the efficient supply of goods for retail and food service customers. This full-time position offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment, utilizing your analytical skills and supply chain knowledge to manage stock levels effectively. You'll collaborate with various departments and suppliers to maintain service levels and contribute to the company's commitment to sustainability. If you're ready to make a positive impact and thrive in a fast-paced setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role within FMCG is essential.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills are required.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Manage stock levels and ensure supply meets customer demand.
• Collaborate with suppliers and internal teams to achieve KPIs.
• Analyze reports to monitor stock and service level performance.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Numerical Skills

Microsoft Office

Supply Chain Software

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Experience in FMCG

Tools

Power BI

Remedy System

Job description

We are seeking a Re-order Buyer to join our Team at AFT Liqour Omagh, the role is Full time and Permanent.

The role will be based in our Drinks Inc office, Belfast.

The successful candidate must hold a valid driving license and have access to a personal vehicle, as travel will be required between Drinks Inc. Belfast and AFT Liquor Omagh.

Musgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain. Every day we feed one-in-three people in Ireland through 18 market leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Honest and Musgrave Market Place. We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve. We are committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland and we are making changes across the company to make sure that happens. We want to make a positive impact on the world, and we will support our suppliers and customers to make a difference too.

The purpose of this role is to ensure supply of goods to meet the needs of our Marketplace retail and food service customers. You will be responsible for all products which are available to purchase through the MNI warehouse to include ambient, chill, frozen and alcohol categories.

Area of Responsibility: Effective stock management of product range in line with Supply Chain departmental KPI’s.

Overview of role and responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with Trading and Logistics colleagues as well as suppliers to ensure departmental KPI’s are achieved using appropriate experience and systems.
• Manage Inbound & Outbound service levels to meet the demands of our customer.
• Maintain product and supplier information.
• Placing orders and maintaining strong working relationships with suppliers to ensure stock levels are sufficient to meet promotional and core demand.
• Liaise with “Goods In” and warehouse operations as required to ensure stock isreceived on specific dates required.
• Analysing system generated reports to ensure stock levels and service level performance are on track with escalation of any non-conformances accordingly.
• Use of MDS and Power BI data system to accurately forecast stock requirements for promotions and seasonal periods.
• Ensure that Intercompany and Bulk orders are placed and scheduled for delivery to customers.
• Managing inbound volumes to ensure workload is balanced across the week and that the warehouse capacity is not breached.
• Manage stock in line with KPI targets ensuring overstocks are actioned and stock is replenished as required
• Authorise stock for bulk customer orders while ensuring availability for other customers.
• Performance reporting on a daily and weekly basis to indicate individual and departmental performance against targets.
• Support to the rest of the Supply Chain Re-Order team as required during busy periods / holidays / absence / stocktakes.

Area of Responsibility: Managing Suppliers

• Monitoring supplier service levels on a daily/weekly basis.
• Establish good working relationships with key personnel from each supplier.
• Collaborative working with suppliers to ensure that inbound service level performance is maintained.
• Use of escalation process (both internal and external) to deal with poor performance and ensure corrective action is agreed and implemented.

Area of Responsibility: Interfacing with other Departments & Customers

• Develop robust working relationships cross functionally e.g. Logistics, Trading, Sales, Operations etc.
• Keeping other Departments and Customers up to date with any current or potential interruptions to supply.

Respond to customer queries via Remedy system within agreed deadlines with sufficient information to satisfy the customer’s query.

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Previous experience in a similar role (within FMCG)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, supply chain software systems and processes
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Ability to work in a fast moving and dynamic environment
• Ability to organise self to achieve goals
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with customer queries and build strong working relationships cross functionally and with suppliers.

Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.

Musgrave operate a Work Smart hybrid working model where you can alternate your time between connecting and collaborating in the business and working remotely.