REPLENISHMENT BUYER

Hourly Wage: to be discussed with successful candidate, depending on experience.

Full Time; Permanent

Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 8am – 4.30pm

(Monday to Thursday 8am -5.30pm as required)

The basic function of the replenishment Buyer is to ensure that stock is available in the warehouse when it is required.  Maintaining in-stock service levels whilst dealing with over 8000 products, over 150 suppliers and importing from all over the world, makes this a very busy and demanding department. 

With the responsibility for ensuring that optimum stock levels are maintained by monitoring sales history and adjusting to market and seasonal trends this role provides a large degree of autonomy and responsibility and the successful candidate must therefore be able to display good organisational skills and have the ability to multi-task and work well under pressure.

The Role:

• Calculating and generating stock orders, based on sales history while taking into account market or seasonal trends and promotional activity
• Monitoring stock levels using various reporting methods to identify potential stock availability problems
• Determine accurate forecasts for replenishment, promotional sales and seasonal demand planning
• Responsible for recognizing trends or patterns and adjusting forecasts accordingly
• Generating reports and subsequent charges based on sales activity
• Liaising confidently with suppliers in dealing with promotional opportunities and stock availability issues
• Working to ensure that stock is received and receipted in a timely fashion
• Provide support for the purchasing admin team as required
• General admin duties, including receipting stock on to the internal database and matching supplier invoices

The Person:

• Strong organisational skills
• Ability to work independently and on own initiative
• Analytical mindset and good at problem solving
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels both within the business and externally (both verbally and written)
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, meet deadlines and multi-task
• Take pride in your work  

Qualifications / Essential Criteria:

• Minimum 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) including English and Maths
• Minimum 1 year experience of working within an office environment
• Confident in dealing with mathematic equations and exchange rate calculations
• Experience in working with Microsoft Office Applications – particularly MS Excel (the successful candidate should be comfortable in working with formulae and with data manipulation within MS Excel)

Desirable Critieria

• Experience of working within a purchasing or stock based environment 

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Glenkrag reserves the right to enhance the shortlisting criteria in the event of an unprecedented response.

Glenkrag are an Equal Opportunities Employer