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Assistant Buyer
Dependent upon experience plus excellent benefits
Lancashire - Hybrid Working
**Candidates will need Far East sourcing experience**
Our client is a privately owned, dynamic business, focused on providing home appliance solutions to retailers, consumers and business to business customers. Due to continued growth now have an excellent opportunity for an Assistant Buyer / Junior Product Manager to join their team in Lancashire.
Duties include:
- Assist with developing and launching new product range/s and promotional items as required by sales and account management teams whilst also proposing new items that are available from the current and new suppliers.
- Manage on-going product range items with suppliers to ensure there are no delays in the supply chain at factory level.
- Assist with managing relevant supplier relationships.
- Understand trends within returns data, to help improve products in the field.
- Ensure products are listed correctly across multiple sales platforms both on-line and retail platform.
- Prepare monthly update on economic issues that can affect product costing.
- Undertake other miscellaneous activities/project work deemed appropriate for the role of Product Manager to support the efficient operation.
You will have the following skills / experience:
- Educated to degree level
- At least 1 years’ experience of buying.
- Far East sourcing experience.
- A driven individual with the will to succeed and deliver projects on- time and in full, and ensure others do as well
- A keen eye for accuracy is essential
- Must be computer literate and well versed in Power point and Excel
- Good negotiation skills and an ability to critique and improve products
- Must be prepared to travel to China and other areas as required
In return our client offers a competitive salary and benefits package and excellent career progression opportunities.
Apply online or for further information contact one of our specialist consultants quoting reference number: NJR15572
