Our Purchasing team’s mission is to provide bargain-minded customers with the deepest discounts on quality and branded products. In many ways our team is the heart of the organization- building and maintaining vendor relationships and providing solutions for our supplier partners and independent operators. Our buyers are empowered with speed, flexibility, and freedom while their passion and creativity embody the art of closeout buying. Successful members of our team are motivated to exceed annual comp sales, thrive in a collaborative environment, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and be motivated by relationship building.
About The Role
The primary responsibility of a Buyer’s Assistant is to provide the support required to purchase product with a focus on accurate and efficient data entry, on-time inbound logistics, and superior customer service. This role provides assistance to buying team and ensures accuracy in the ordering process while facilitating communications between vendors and corresponding buyers. This role reports to the Buyer - Grocery.
Responsibilities Include
Maintains department files including purchase orders, quotes sheets, supplier lists, and other documents
Create purchase orders; ensure that purchase orders are completed in a timely and accurate manner
Setup suppliers and new items in the system with maximum accuracy and strong attention to detail
Ensure that retails and values are properly researched and maintained in the system; verifies product descriptions and update elsewhere prices as needed
Monitors and follows up the timely arrival of PO’s with minimal Past Dues and reschedule when necessary
Reconcile over/short/damages (OSD) on received PO’s
Relentless focus on ensuring all supplier invoices are processed timely by coordinating with AP
Responsible for Direct-to-Store Delivery (DSD) vendor-store-item linkages and maintenance of the Flexible Order Guides (FOG’s) especially changes in costs, retails, values, effective dates
Creates Hot Buy slides for weekly purchasing meeting
Maintains positive working relationships and effective communication with suppliers, internal departments, stores and distribution centers
Establishes and maintains a reputation of credibility and responsiveness; promptly returns vendor and store phone calls, ensures timely follow-up on issues within 24 hours
Verification and communication between suppliers and GOI Team regarding the Buyer Portal
Responds to all store issues and inquiries promptly
Quickly reacts and processes pinks, yellows, red alerts, price changes and corrective billings
Ownership of Print & Digital AD Process to include product image proofing, accurate AD File, Delayed Distributions, Purchase Order tracking, and AD images
Other projects as needed
About The Pay
Base Salary: $26.50/hr
401(k) Profit Sharing
Medical, Dental, Vision & More!
Final compensation will be determined based upon experience and skills and may vary based on location.
About You
Associate degree or 1 to 2 years retail/sales or related experience
Data entry experience
Experience with SAP preferred
Proficient use of Excel, Microsoft Word and Outlook
You are keen to details and highly organized
You have excellent time management skills
Ability to reprioritize tasks and work frequently
Resourceful and able to research problems and recommend solutions
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Excellent interpersonal skills, outgoing, willing to help others and openness to learn
Show resiliency and positive attitude towards change
Ability to respectfully and effectively communicate with all levels of staff and management
Ability to prioritize and multitask with broad/dynamic workload to meet deadlines in a very fast-paced environment
Proven team player, self-motivated, independent-thinker
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Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Purchasing and Supply Chain
Industries
Retail
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