DIVISIONAL BUYING MANAGER (AA/EE) - Cape Town

You will be responsible for managing a team of category buyers and driving growth and improving performance for this Division, this includes developing a category strategy for 'how to win' in these categories, assessing market opportunities, managing the team to deliver against the strategy, building a team, and driving performance improvement initiatives throughout the team

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a comprehensive strategy/plan to drive growth across the departments in brands, suppliers and new product selection
• Manage the execution against this plan and ensure teams prioritize strategic objectives
• Manage team against key financial and service level performance indicators
• Motivate and professionally develop your team
• Profit & Loss management
• Develop range, forecast and stock management methodology to drive efficiencies within supply chain whilst maintaining and growing product selection
• Build & foster new and current supplier relationships, improve service level agreements and manage the team to deliver on stronger negotiations
• Identify and execute on performance/business growth initiatives
• Manage site-merchandising and work with the marketing team to develop promotional strategies for the division

Key Requirements:

• 8+ years’ experience in a high-performance environment
• 3+ years managerial experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Science, Commerce or Psychology required (Preferable Post-Graduate degree in Business)
• Experience in building, managing and developing teams
• Strong competency in analytical tools

If you are a match for this position, please REPLY with your CV (updated & detailed) and your current CTC salary per month to    

Please note that we experience high volumes of candidates responding to our advertised vacancies. This makes it impossible for us to reply to each applicant individually. Should you not hear from us within a week upon applying, please consider your application unsuccessful