Manager Purchasing and Assortment

As a Purchasing & Assortment Manager, you are responsible for:

• Developing the overall assortment strategy including product, selling price, and promotion.
• Developing the vendor and sourcing strategy for your assortment, including cost/margin improvement, external market influences on cost, own brand sourcing and rebates.
• Defining assortment review and negotiation cycles, in line with market changes, to ensure assortment and cost prices are current, optimizing profit and sales opportunities.
• Owning and sourcing the own brand assortment, defining the products, tender cycles, vendor selection, negotiation, and supply performance to ensure own brand products are available on time, and to the agreed specification.
• Cross-functional working is essential to manage assortment and vendor performance, your ability to plan and communicate assortment and vendor plans, as well as take ownership of problems with vendors, is crucial.
• Leading vendor negotiation, improving costs and contractual agreements to optimize profitability and manage cash flow.
• Managing all forms of contractual agreements; product lifecycles; forecasting spikesin demand and sell-through in line with stock targets.
• Managing selling prices in line with the pricing strategy and each country's price position index
• Building strong relationships internally and externally, influencing key stakeholders to execute all assortment and vendor plans on time. Work in close collaboration with Vendors, Merchandising and Product Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Finance to maximize business results.