Buyer Administrator: The Fix 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. 
• 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.
• Integral 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).