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Food Buyer
Babylonstoren has an exciting opportunity for a Food Buyer to join our dynamic team. This successful candidate will assist in expanding our food product offering. You must have experience in both fresh and long-life foods, supplier management, and food procurement. To be successful in this position, you must be innovative, solution-oriented, have leadership qualities to work comfortably in a cross-functional team, and take ownership of your tasks and responsibilities. The role suits a highly motivated and passionate individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, and who can easily adapt to changing market and organisational requirements.
Requirements
- Relevant commercial degree or diploma.
- At least 5-8 years’ fresh food retail buying experience.
- Proven experience in a procurement management role, with demonstrable results in complex buying within a fresh food manufacturing environment (essential).
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Good planning and project management skills.
- Strong financial skills as it relates to buying, particularly cost make-up, cost controlling, profit management and financial reporting.
- Strong negotiation and financial management skills.
- Knowledge of logistics/warehousing and delivery systems and procedures, end-to-end supply chain processes, and key influencing factors.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Must be able to work under pressure.
- Entrepreneurial ability to initiate and coordinate innovative and viable product ranges for our customer target.
- Pro-active and innovative mindset.
- Strong orientation towards the customer and retail positioning.
- Sound business acumen and emotional resilience.
- Excellent command of Afrikaans and English, with good verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent computer skills in all facets of its use as buying tool.
Responsibilities
- Establish and implement a category strategy, in line with the food strategy, to meet targets and grow the customer base.
- Identify, analyse and interpret lifestyle, industry, retail and food trends to establish a category strategy and annual operational plan.
- Play a leading and coordinating role within the product development and food technology teams to source, produce and buy food products in support of our food strategy.
- Perform end-to-end commercial activities relevant to procurement of food products.
- Identify, evaluate and manage suppliers through building and maintaining strong, sustainable supplier relationships with both new and existing suppliers, drawing experience from the industry to optimise supply and profitability.
- Manage supplier and farm-supply production profit to achieve all KPIs.
- Establish a supplier strategy that is long-term mutually beneficial and that supports and enables the delivery of the category and food strategy.
- Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant departments to manage purchasing processes.
- Prepare and review proposals, contracts and supplier agreements for retail and legal correctness, trading term compliance, price and acceptability of items to specifications, competitiveness with market and market position.
- Drive category profit targets in line with Babylonstoren’s brand values.
- Manage stock buying and losses in line with targets and category strategies.
Please send CV and salary expectation to [email protected].