Buying Coordinator at Weylandts

Job Purpose:

This position is responsible for the full process of onboarding new products, phasing out old products and maintaining quality of existing products to ensure that Weylandts continues to offer a competitive and unique product range. The successful candidate has a crucial support role and is the link between the Furniture Buyers, Planners, Visual Merchandisers, Marketing, Purchasing Coordinators, and suppliers.

This role will require you to move across our offices, namely Durbanville, Greenpoint and Epping.

Key Responsibilities:

• Onboarding new products - input of all relevant product data into costing portal and ensure orders are placed together with the planners.
• Ensure all information on new products is correct and correlates to signed off spec from the furniture buyers.
• Handle day to day correspondence with suppliers regarding product onboarding
• Work closely with Purchasing Coordinators to ensure product claims and queries are resolved timeously and efficiently.
• Assist and collate product information to provide to the Buying Project Manager for marketing, training, and visual merchandising briefs.
• Manage product data (codes and landing dates) on lookbooks
• Update relevant departments on stock arrival and any changes in ETA’s of new products
• Ensure pre-shipment images are signed off by relevant buyer
• Review product release for approval – ensure product releases reflect accurate information as per the signed off specification sheet
• Manage ticket system
• Ensure image approval on new products are done by buyer
• Import costings from suppliers in Middleware and ensure supplier’s specification as per buyers’ specifications.
• Presenting new product costings with RSP and the comparison to existing products to the buying team.
• Integrate all new products and replacement products into stores on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure that end of range products is sold from the floor or sent to DC and that place holders are allocated.
• Ensure that existing product updates are followed though.
• Dealing with suppliers to ensure specifications are met on new and existing products to ensure we maintain our quality on existing and new products.

 
Technical Skills:

• Matric
• 5 + years administrative experience
• Buying experience would be advantageous
• Purchasing /stock systems experience
• MS Office competency (especially Excel)
• Good organizational ability
• Strong numeracy skills
• Experience with Syspro advantageous
• Knowledge of import/export procedures advantageous
• Valid drivers license and own reliable transport