Junior Buyer Job Description
Junior buyer
provides routine reporting to internal customers to maintain ERP accuracy for PO status, financial postings and close.
Junior Buyer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Maintain and develop best position with vendors to insure we are the exclusive or first point of call for any off price activity
Continuously updated Competitor knowledge within both off price and full price to insure The Outnet is the premier off price destination
High level of trend awareness both for the Departments of responsibility and the market in general
Feeding upload and buy strategies internally to all relevant teams, including Marketing, Upload and Editorial to insure the business is up to date with all developments
Management and Development of Buyer’s Assistant in conjunction with the Buyer
Current & New Lines
Provide target price matrix by category/ life style to guide the design team on price points for each season
Analyse costing history/trends for each product category
In partnership with Senior Buyer research, comp shopping and new product opportunities
Maintain order processing and ensure deliveries on schedule
Junior Buyer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Junior Buyer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPM, APICS, CPP, PMAC, CPIM
Education for Junior Buyer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the junior buyer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Engineering, Business, Business/Administration, Economics, Finance, Education, Associates, Technical, Management, Fashion
Skills for Junior Buyer
Desired skills for junior buyer include:
MS Office
Excel
ERP in Procure to Pay will be added advantage
Bringing new
Microsoft Excel
Well thought out ideas to contribute to the Buying process
High Street
Word
Any ERP
ERP and input confirmations from suppliers into ERP
Desired experience for junior buyer includes:
Contribute to development process and maintain product samples
Own and develop SWOT and Sign-Off
Range build and plan
Experience in a buying function, preferably working on Mens category
Good languages skills
Responsible for the seasonal buy budget, sales selection and buy strategy for a selected group of designers
Junior Buyer Examples
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Junior Buyer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a junior buyer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for junior buyer
- Range planning and trend forecasting with direction from Senior Buyer, Buying Director and VP of Global Buying
- Maintain and develop best position with vendors
- Ensure right mix of product and maintain awareness of competitors positioning
- Work with Head of Merchandising and other Buyers to ensure consistent buy message
- Stay on budget and overage for cancellations
- Communicate buys/strategies internally to all relevant teams, including marketing and editorial
- Attend Buying Appointments and assist the Buyer with selections and ensure that critical path and calendars are met
- To accurately complete order sheets in a concise and timely manner that can be used cross-functionally
- Assist the Buyer on the buying plan to ensure that options, stock levels and sizes are accurate and correct in store
- To react to customer and business trends by providing timely information to sales and production
Qualifications for junior buyer
- Attend Design and Production Seasonal Board Presentations and alongside the Buyer
- To report on product performance and make recommendations to the Buyer
- To create and communicate weekly, mid-season and end of season collection reports to the Buyer
- To assist with producing and distributing Retail Shop selling aids including swatch books, look books, collection and fabric information
- Experience of the Women’s ready to wear and Junior market both nationally and internationally
- Able to identify target customer groups and apply to long term strategies
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of junior buyer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for junior buyer
- Track & drive cycle time reduction with supplier
- Supplier communication related to Vendor Bill Back process
- Communicate and make arrangements with impacted departments in all operational vendor related issues
- Manage & monitor transportation requests
- Supports the Buyer and contributes to the decisions on the product range
- Delegate responsibility to BAA and Assistant Buyer to develop their skills
- Management of any assigned material commodities
- Analyze, manage, and implement actions relating to material requirements that ensure an uninterrupted flow of materials and services for Production using MRP, Pull Indicators
- Anticipate and proactively mitigate risks to material procurement commitments
- Communicate with Richmond team to ensure on time delivery lead time accuracy
Qualifications for junior buyer
- Self-starter and proactive in driving results
- Excellent at problem solving and decision making
- Must be a Bachelors with 2-3 Yrs
- 3-5 years of procurement experience in a high tech manufacturing environment
- Working knowledge of ISO9001 and ITAR preferred
- Working with the Global category Manager/ Global Lead Buyers to build relationships and execute actions with preferred suppliers, including negotiations and production of all main agreements
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of junior buyer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for junior buyer
- Work with the GBU’s to develop and implement strategic sourcing initiatives for the staffing services category
- With the supervision of the Global Category Manager & Global Lead Buyers, lead internal process changes or improvements being part of the action plan or necessary for the optimization of the segment
- Development of synergies bundling the volumes of different countries
- Classification of spend into the right purchasing commodities to enable the correct supplier database evolution
- Manage the discontinuation of suppliers to drive spend through the preferred suppliers according to the purchasing strategy, enabling better payment terms and cost and cash performance
- Obtain detailed stakeholder needs and master data according to Procurement strategy for commodities with small spend
- Organize meetings between the suppliers and stakeholders
- Examines departmental purchase requisitions for completeness and accuracy of provided information necessary for the buying procedure
- Confers with departments with respect to questionable items on the requisition and interprets purchasing procedures to departments
- Local buyer for Procurement cost center
Qualifications for junior buyer
- Background in Finance, Accounting or Engineering and 2years’ experience in Supply Chain Management, or Logistics
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in Sourcing/Buying
- Solid understanding of negociations
- Excellent knowledge in SAP/ERP
- Superior English in spoken and written beside the local language
- Good understanding of local regulatory guidelines
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of junior buyer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for junior buyer
- Sourcing/tendering/negotiating (RFP/RFQ) on small tenders
- Accurate and timely execution of operational purchasing tasks (e
- Provide operational SCMS services to internal customers according to company regulations & guidelines within defined KPIs in highest quality and cost efficiency
- Be able to communicate in daily business on a professional level in the languages of customers
- Responsible for data completion in purchase requisition and purchase orders
- Investigate, suggest and work on improvements
- Explain the processes to colleagues and share the know-how with other teams
- Establish, build and expand relationships with existing and potential vendors at multiple levels in the organization
- Researching and prospecting new items requested by our sales staff and managing the implementation of new items
- Obtains price quotations
Qualifications for junior buyer
- Good knowledge of appropriate tools used in purchasing, maintenance and inventory management
- Good Understanding in Organizational set-up
- Self-starter mentality and motivated to work in highly dynamic and changing environment
- Studying at a business/engineering school
- Determination to achieve goals
- Negotiate offers and Issue Purchase Orders
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a junior buyer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for junior buyer
- Collect info for creating new suppliers
- Aggregation/reduction of suppliers
- Manage the relationship with internal customers
- Issue monthly reports
- Management of internal catalogues
- Reminder list for codified articles
- Review invoices for purchased commodities as required by Accounts Payable
- Support the Procurement team on business initiatives to deliver savings and value-add benefits
- Support the Procurement team by proactively producing spend reports and ad hoc reporting requirements, including supplier spend information in advance of negotiation meetings
- Learn about and understand contract terms and conditions and understand when they apply
Qualifications for junior buyer
- Bachelor's degree or up to 2 years of experience in a SCM or purchasing related function
- Previous experience in SCM or purchasing role a strong plus
- Previous experience working in Shared Services business environment for a global company a strong plus
- Strongly motivated to work with autonomy, Engagement, Operational, Reliable
- Communication is clearly a key point, Self convident in Human contact, Social relationship
- Capacity to work in team, Team player