Job Description:

The Buyer at Croma plays a critical role in sourcing, selecting, and managing the assortment of electronic products to be offered in the company's retail outlets. The role involves a combination of market analysis, vendor management, negotiation, and collaboration with internal teams.

Responsibilities:

- Assist to Buy, range and manage the category based on the demands and expectations of our customers

- Sourcing of products

- Working with the buyer to launch new products including statutory approvals, QC, negotiating appropriate service arrangements, arranging packaging and instructions, entering productions descriptions details and bar codes onto the system

- Set store models

- Identify opportunities for incremental sales of existing products

- Conduct regular range review with the Buyer

- Monitor competition for threats and opportunities

- Have input into the Strategic plan (Business Plan)

- Liaise with suppliers to ensure a smooth flow of stock at competitive prices whilst maximizing rebate and advertising support

- Develop strong business relations with key suppliers, source new suppliers and consolidate existing suppliers where commercially appropriate

- Manage stock levels to achieve high stock service level to retail and wholesale whilst ensuring better than budget inventory and GPROSI performance

- Identify obsolete and non-variable inventory and develop plans to exist in conjunction with the buyer

- Have input into lines for advertising

- Attend advertising briefing sessions with the Buyer

- Ensure there is adequate stock to cover promotional demand

- Notify relevant parties of changes in product specification and pricing

- Review appropriateness of stock levels

- Ensure Data Integrity and Maintenance of product information in the system

- Co-ordinate stock returns to the supplier

- Registration and ongoing management of stock samples received

- Communicating product information and/ or instructions to stores

- Support and contribute to the development and success of the overall team.