P/T Category/Purchasing Assistant

Part Time Category - Purchasing Assistant

Wakefield

24 hours per week - £18K plus excellent benefits and working culture

Monday to Friday - No weekends

Do you have proven experience working within a merchant, construction or building industry? and seeking a new challenging part time role as a Purchasing Assistant?

Purpose of the role:

• To work with the Category Manager to deliver a rigorous and robust Category Management process.
• To ensure key performance targets are achieved by developing category and supplier strategies, to encourage sustainable growth and improved profitability through supplier and product mix and to improve competitive advantage.
• To ensure that branches are stocking and have access to optimal products, suppliers and brands, at the best costs and with the best suppliers
• To be the product, supplier and market expert for the respective category.
• To ensure you maximise their membership by identifying suppliers and deals
• Building relationships with suppliers and branches

Main duties and responsibilities:

• To be customer centric - understand the needs of the customer.
• Establish and execute formal category plans that support budget aspirations.
• Develop strong, collaborative relationships with the Commercial, Sales and Operational teams.
• Attend Area Managers, Branch Manager regional meetings and National Sales meetings to raise awareness of the category.
• Be innovative and drive NPD to ensure our product offering is always relevant to customers and we are considered as credible suppliers by customers.
• Excellent communication with the business on all supplier and product related matters.
• Build great relationships with suppliers so that we are their merchant of choice.
• Appoint preferred suppliers and develop relationships and plans with them.
• Carry out regular category reviews to ensure that we are working with the right suppliers.
• Refine and improve category performance through benchmarking competitor prices and reviewing price book architecture to optimise margin potential.
• Ensure critical KPIs in relevant areas are met or exceeded
• Understand the implications and opportunities of eCommerce in each category and work closely with the eCommerce team to maximise opportunities.
• Establish an effective Core range - that ensures the right products are always available to customers.
• Work with the Marketing team to produce marketing plans bespoke to respective categories including a promotional strategy.
• Ensuring the Product File is always accurate.

This is a very fast paced varied role, and requires someone who thrives off working at pace, the ideal candidate will have similar industry experience, coupled with excellent communication skills

If you would like to be considered for this role, please forward you CV for consideration

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