Job Vacancy Details
Senior Buyer
Museums & Heritage
Central London
Permanent ⁄ £35000 - £40000
Updated August 10, 2008
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To assist the Retail Buying Manager to implement the retail buying strategy generally and in the product groups under the Buyers responsibility.
2. Identify, procure and manage the supply of quality merchandise for specific departments, meeting the brief agreed with the Retail Buying Manager.
3. To manage the stock holding and sales performance of specific departments and recommend action within agreed financial parameters.
4. Identify new suppliers and manage existing supplier relationships for specific departments and agree product specifications.
5. Review ranges within defined departments on a periodic basis to ensure products are maximising sales and make recommendations for action.
6. Ensuring that Retail Sales and Warehouse teams have timely information for stock delivery and availability.
7. Work closely with shop managers to ensure a thorough understanding of product requirements and performance of specific departments and carry out periodic product briefings.
8. Work closely with Buying Manager to ensure the procurement of bespoke merchandise meets museum, customer and financial expectations.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Meet retail sales and margin targets for specific departments.
2. Meeting retail key performance indicators including stock levels, stock turns, out of stocks and write offs for specific departments products.
3. Ensuring product departments meet agreed quality standards and are supplied on time at the best terms to the museum.
4. Working with Retail Sales and the Warehouse teams to maintain continuity of supply of agreed products.
5. Managing the systems and procedures for placing orders, tracking product delivery and processing payment.
6. All product sold meets relevant regulations and trading standards and that customers or the museum's reputation is not put at risk.
Who we're looking for
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
1. Significant experience of product buying from a wide supplier base, identifying new suppliers, negotiating supply terms and managing the supply chain.
2. Strong financial skills required in analyse sales prices, trading margin, and maximising financial yields.
3. Ability to manage retail systems to track sales performance data, stock cover and ordering requirements.
4. Strong negotiating skills.
PERSONAL SKILLS
1. Ability to balance commercial performance with the ethos of the trading environment.
2. Ability to work independently in the defined area of responsibility and to make recommendations for actions.
3. A good team player who can forge positive functional working relationships with retail shop managers, Buying Manager and Warehouse manager.
4. The ability to work with a cross section of museum staff to enable a close match between retail product and the organisation.
5. A dynamic individual who keeps in touch with the latest retail ideas and seeks to deploy them, as suitable, to their product group.
6. The ability to see a project through from initial concept stage through to completion of finished product.
7. Can detach personal views and can see things from the customers perspective.
About our client
One of London's most famous museums. It's collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history.
What's on offer
Basic salary up to £40,000 + 27 days paid holiday + Bank holidays + Company pension scheme + Season Ticket Loan + Various discounts
Michael Page Contact
For further info, apply or phone on 020-7269 2503.
Job Ref: 12991413
Your application will be sent to David Seamons.
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