Kidswear Buying Executive

Dynamic, savvy individuals will thrive in our diverse environment where there are always stimulating goals to achieve, new challenges arising and abundant opportunities for personal growth and to develop leadership skills and enhance business knowledge.

Kidswear Buying Executive
(Discount Division)

Purpose: To ensure strategically aligned merchandise buying activities through the development of a buying strategy, objectives and performance management measures focused on achieving sales targets, gross profit percentage and effective stock turns resulting in increasing market share. In addition, to develop, direct and implement plans and projects to improve and expand the strategic market position and to achieve growth and financial profitability. To actively operate within the African Expansion Project.

Responsibilities:

• Financial ratio – merchandise
• Budget and financial management
• Merchandise management
• Balanced stock
• Stakeholder relationship building, networking and management
• Product portfolio and assortment
• People management.

Competencies:

• Strategic awareness
• Business acumen
• Financial management
• Performance focus
• Team leadership
• Decision-making
• Analytical thinking
• Building organisational capability
• Relationship building and networking
• Customer loyalty.

Qualifications/experience:

• Matric. Degree and international experience would be advantageous
• 12 years’ direct and relevant experience.

Closing date: 30 October 2011.