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Job Description
UAE National Hiring | Food Category Assistant | Marks & Spencer | Dubai, UAE
Overview of the Role
The Buying Category Assistant’s assist the food buyer to process all food orders, stakeholder management, assist preparing retail and pricing strategies, placing and tracking purchase orders, managing inventory and keeping track of market trends.
What you will do
- Assisting the Buyer with the selection of the right commercial offer
- Researching new suppliers and making recommendations
- Reviewing retail/buying prices and margins regularly
- Regularly review competitors and wider market to monitor prices, range, suppliers, trends and new products
- Understanding of the merchandising process, product lifecycle and being able to come up with relevant proposals and recommendations for action.
- Ensuring products are purchased at the right time, to specification and at a competitive price.
- Following up on orders placed and working close with vendors & the logistics team to resolve shipping/delivery issues and assure the target stock levels are met
- Planning, monitoring and maintaining suitable inventory levels
- Creating on a regular base & ad hoc business reports such as newness sales report etc as and when required
- Substituting the buyer adequately when necessary to ensure business needs are met and assist in additional activities related to new store opening in UAE and other countries
- Training and mentoring new Category Assistants and sharing best practices with them
- Proactively support e commerce team and category development team on their requirements
- Placing orders with UK
- Raising claims to UK for any issues
Skills
Required skills to be successful
- Advanced technical knowledge of ERP systems (SAP) and MS Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); above average computation abilities, feeling comfortable with various calculations
- To be successful as a Category Assistant, you should be confident, highly organized and an excellent communicator, has an analytical mind and excellent negotiating skills, communicates with suppliers, planning, visual merchandising, marketing and logistics teams to achieve sales, profits and market share objectives for the Business
What equips you for the role
- 2 years’ experience in any Food establishment
- 2 years in a similar role or 2 years product experience in another role coupled with SAP knowledge and advanced excel skills