Category buyer|Supply Chain|Category Management|Retail
EDDY
Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months
Role and Responsibilities:
• Purchasing Furniture Division -All Categories.
• Purchasing budgets preparation. (forecast)
• Selection of Products & Suppliers
• Category Management.
• Communication with Suppliers to place orders.
• Preparing payments
• Preparing the Sales Budget and follow up to achieve the budget
• Involved with all Showrooms in all Sales activities, Marketing, New Arrival, promotions.
• Follow up on fast moving -Slow moving products in all Furniture Categories.
• Involved in actions to be taken to achieve the targets.
• Maintaining the full Range of Category
• Distributing the Stock in all Ksa total 11 Stores and 3 Regional warehouses.
• Preparing & Follow-up Item codes, shipping marks, barcodes for suppliers to arrange as per our requirement.
• Follow-up on payments (advance -Remaining balances)
• Follow up on shipments with supplier, with our logistic teams.
• Follow-up with warehouse to offload the containers.
• Preparing Allocation to all warehouses+ Showrooms
• Pricing, calculating margins.
• Creating Purchase orders
• Update pricing on systems
• Preparing New Arrivals and communicating to Stores
• Preparing Mega sales, promotions with Marketing.
• Preparing data to provide to E-commerce teams.
• Follow-up sales for all Categories
• Follow-up Staff performance
Certified : CPP & CPPM from American Purchasing Society.
Discipline - Purchasing + Category Management + Supply Chain . ( Almost 15 Years experience)
A highly skilled retail professional, managing retail operations and retail teams across the organization, seeking continuous improvement and expertise in a retail environment.
My core expertise and assets that I bring to the table -
Purchasing - Selection of Products, Purchasing Budget, Management of Inventory Category wise, cycle, order, re-order under a given budget based on supply chain requirements of all retail units. Suppliers, SKU's, Category Analysis & Aging Analysis to recommend price changes and discount offers.
Logistics - Managing the complete distribution and Receiving process from the point of purchaseAllocation to all warehouses and Stores.
Warehousing - Managing Warehousing from storage efficiencies, reports, variances, PDI, and damage solutions.
Supervision of Retail Units - Daily implementation of process manuals & retail standards.
Managing Budgets - Managing Sales and Costs budgets of retail units.
Staff Management - Daily Staff performance review, Leading retail meetings and Learning & Development.
Retail Metrics - Daily Transaction and Footfall analysis to recommend necessary Marketing initiatives & Measurement of Customer reviews and complaints.
Initiated new sales coverage strategy with the support of sales management( Warde Brand ) that added 30M+ of business within a year.
Lead a team to manage 30M in net sales across the Warde Brand.
Developed a short and long term business relations for the brand that addressed product holes, new markets, distribution strategy and profit estimates.
Developed dealer and end-user marketing collateral and programs that promoted the value proposition.
Worked closely with global managers to ensure brand was effectively penetrating international market.