Buying Manager at PEP

Purpose of the job 

To manage a range of related purchasing departments in a division, ensuring optimised profitability by providing a range of commodities that is the most wanted to the Pep consumer market and through the application of appropriate margins and price points

Key Responsibilities 

• Operational result management 
• Customer management by managing the accurate identification of customers needs
• Leading the Buying team
• Business Unit Management
• Managed Relationships
• Liaise with stakeholders / role players outside own division in order to ensure alignment and to address  and improve strategic and escalated operational issues
• Supplier management, sourcing suppliers and products
• Ad hoc responsibilities

Requirements

Required Knowledge, Skills and Competencies 

• Tertiary qualification, preferably purchasing / business management, consumer market and/or marketing management
• 5 - 8 years’ Buyer experience and in various departments (at least 3)
• Must have managed a team
• Must have managed own budget
• Fabric knowledge
• Financial management skills
• PC literacy 
• Presentation skills 
• Negotiation skills
• Meeting facilitation skills
• In-depth understanding of the buying process
• Understanding of the planning process; store operational process; supply chain processes; market understanding; marketing understanding; and product knowledge
• Code 8 Driver’s Licence
• Willingness to travel