Buyer at SIG Labour & Associates

PERFORMANCE & MEASUREMENT:

• Assist as a member of the management team of the store in:
• Achievement of agreed Top Line Budget.
• Achievement of agreed Gross Profit % Budget.
• Achievement of agreed strategic Basket Size and Feet count.
• Achievement of agreed strategic departmental participations & GP%.
• Shrinkage in line with Budgeted %.
• Stock Holding not to exceed 4.5 weeks.

STOCK MANAGEMENT & BUYING CONTROLS:

• Ensure that the store has a full range of appropriate products to suit the needs of the consumer both retail and wholesale.
• Ensure that the store is well merchandised and according to rate of sale and that top 250 lines are in stock at all times & ticketed.
• Ensure Stock Card System & Supplier Cycle Sheets are well maintained and used with all Suppliers and all products. (Direct and UMS Suppliers).
• Stock purchases to be in-line with ROS (Rate of Sale).
• Ensure all products have a P.I. label and at least 1 Shelf Talker on every module.
• Ensure promotions are correctly merchandised and pricing in place, with correct P.I. label and all Promotional Products have a Shelf Talker.
• Ends planners (Visible in GM’s Office) in accordance with Supplier activity, income collected and generically positioned.
• Top 20 suppliers’ performance & review meetings- to be scheduled monthly and forward planning to be completed in terms of activities/ promotion/ Ad hoc income and Cycle deals on products for the purpose of marketing the products on leaflet.
• Selling and income on ends to be negotiated, claims signed and income recorded on Income Statement- End Income recorded as other income.
• Purchases buying Ratio’s to be in line with Sales- Stockholding not to exceed 4.5 weeks.
• Signing-off all purchase orders and receipts on a daily basis.
• All GRV’s to be checked- Monitor Input GP by line and invoice/ SOH/ in accordance to daily & weekly Purchase Budget.
• Ensure that all claims are claimed against supplier e.g., Tallies, over-pricing, Supplier contributions, Ends, Shorts and returns.
• All returns to be monitored closely e.g., Expired stock, swell allowances and returns to suppliers for overstocks and damages
• Weekly SPM to be completed in order to track opposition pricing- action accordingly.
• Top 200 lines CSH (Consolidated Store Holdings) Report to be completed weekly in order to track Costs, Selling, SOH and average Rate of Sale by product.

MARKETING:

• Build & Maintain supplier relationship through interaction and dealings.
• Identifying of lines for promotions & price setting in accordance with market pricing.
• Grow market share through interaction with customers, community, suppliers and trading partners.
• Visiting of customers: Visit top 20 customers weekly and do bulk dealing through sharing marketing trends and ideas.
• Look at the area demographics and LSM groups that you do direct marketing too. (Know your customers.).
• Constant Floor and Customer interaction to ensure that “understanding” of the customer is known and the market understood.
• Promote aggressively via Leaflets (Suppliers, Price, Product, Range & leaflet competitions), Local Radio advertising & sms’es.
• Promote Stockvels & Christmas Stamps through-out the year.
• Arranging of supplier activities on weekends e.g., Wet Demos.

DAILY BUDGETIING, SALES, REPORTS AND TARGETS:

• Daily floor walks and Actioning- assist in setting targets as the management team for daily, weekly and monthly. Follow-up daily and increase store standards.
• Meeting of deadlines on financial info, reports & Promotional activities.
• Monitor customer buying- buying card customers & customers “open to buy’s” in terms of available credit facilities.

LOSS CONTROL:

• Ensure that losses of all kinds are under control. (Minimize damages, expired stock etc)
• Ensure that shrinkage is managed through doing daily hazard counts.
• Ensure that 2nd checks are done at receiving and recorded in 2nd Checks Management book.
• All Empties Controls to be in place and stock counted daily with identifying variances by line with corrective action.
• Ensure that all till shorts are eliminated and action taken where required.
• Ensure the temperature checks are done as instructed and checked by management.
• All service department stock takes to be completed weekly and any shorts/ overs to be actioned.
• All Airtime & Cigarette counts to be completed weekly and any shorts/ overs to be actioned.
• Spot Checks to be performed on till points and shorts/ overs to be actioned.
• All security 2nd checks at front end to be monitored closely and action to be taken against staff members who defaults on incorrect invoicing.
• Follow all Opening and Closing security procedures.
• Save keeping of all administrational books. Books need to be in secure place.

CUSTOMER SERVICE:

• Attend to customer queries and resolve them as promptly as possible.
• Ensure pamphlets are distributed on time and effectively.
• Spend adequate time on sales floor to know customer needs and become the face of the business unit.
• Stock availability and fair price at all times.
• Interaction with community - drives & involvement.
• On-going staff training on Products for Customer service training.

TRADING & BANNER GROWTH DEVELOPMENT:

• Ensuring that Strategy is developed in line with Market Growth identified.
• Ensuring the Marketing and Merchandising team are aligned to strategy
• Continuous Marketing and reviewing linked to Strategic Objective
• Setting up of Merchandising review session with Suppliers and inhouse support.
• Managing the Planner of the strategy and continuously updating with changes.
• Managing objectives and deadlines.
• Ensuring that Campaign drives are timeously met and that proactive approach in being ahead maintained within the plan structure.

STORE MERCHANDISING:

• Setting out the Merchandising plan for the Floor through the Suppliers requirements / brief.
• Ensuring timeous actions are executed for the Operational and Floor staff to have the plan for merchandising.
• Through Floor walks assist in the Store Merchandising and ensuring the required Merchandising procedures followed.
• Ensuring executed plan on Merchandising are executed in line with the Supplier requirements / agreed terms.
• Managing the relationship of the supplier merchandising plan with the Operations team to ensure execution is carried-out.
• Delivery of merchandising feedback to Management and Suppliers.
• Making sure the promotions are roll out in line with plan.
• Managing the executed promotion and on conclusion ensure the removal of promotional items removed by the supplier / store merchant teams.
• Managing the floor operational team from time to time.

GENERAL (Ad hoc):

• Assist in the execution of stock take preparations.
• Assist in ensuring that stock takes are done in accordance with agreed CPA and Budgeted Cost
• Assist in ensuring the store performs accurate stock take and when required.
• As part of Management team be available to open and close the store with the lock up procedures when required.
• Stand in for management when required.

SYSTEMS/SOFTWARE:

• ARCH
• SAP
• PORTAL
• MICROSOFT SUITE