Assistant Buyer: Kidswear Jet at TFG (The Foschini Group)

Key Responsibilities:

• Administratively supporting all aspects of the buying process
• Ensuring timeous placement of orders onto the purchasing system
• Maintaining a control system for the sample room
• Compiling, balancing, and updating spreadsheets and reports
• Maintaining quality assurance control and audit of samples
• All preparations prior to presentations 
• Completing all administrative documentation that is related to loading products into the TFG system
• Building constructive and mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers
• Communicating with suppliers to gather all information required to load product
• Processing of all amendments and communicating changes to relevant parties
• Supporting the customer service team in resolving product and order queries and complaints and product sourcing and pricing queries
• Managing orders through the critical path process
• Pulling of weekly reports on incoming stock and liaising with suppliers for keep samples 
• Managing sample process between retail and production
• Prepping of product and documents for quarterly SWOT's 
• Able to do a Comp Shop on their own 
• Pulling samples / images for weekly sales reports or product meetings as requested by the buyer
• Assisting Buyers with order placements
• Maintaining the retail sample room
• Assist with coordination of QA samples 

Qualifications and Experience:

• Matric, Higher Certificate or Diploma 
• Buying Admin experience 
• Previous experience as an Assistant Buyer or similar role would be advantageous 
• Understanding of the clothing retail Cycle and Buying Process 
• A good working knowledge of the current computer software packages (knowledge of Excel, Word & E-mail would be preferable).