Retail Buyer

20 hours ago


Limerick, Ireland FRS Recruitment Full time

Pharmacy Retail Buyer - Limerick

The ideal candidate should have:

- 3+ years of retail and purchasing experience.

- Premium Brand cosmetic, sales or management experience

- FMCG, cosmetics, or pharmacy experience is an advantage.

- EPOS experience, Microsoft Excel proficiency and strong analytical skills.

- Ability to understand and utilise financial data and KPIs.

- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritize their workload.

- Strong communicator with the ability to communicate with all levels of the business.

- Ability to generate ideas and market the same.

- Energetic, enthusiastic and not afraid of hard work.

Main role responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Support the store managers of the pharmacies with their day-to-day Operations.

- Managing purchase orders and stock control for the premium fragrance and cosmetic houses.

- Review stock levels weekly to formulate orders for suppliers or to arrange transfers between branches, as appropriate.

- Management of stockholdings, including overstock, out-of-stock and seasonal variations, with consideration given to minimisation of working capital investment, individual store needs and slow-moving stock across the group for sundry toiletries.

- Maximise margin while maintaining competitiveness.

- Ongoing maintenance of the EPOS stock file, including setting up products, suppliers, cost price, selling price, and margin (shared duty).

- Generation and issuing of reports to management, including; sales reports, margin reports, month-end reports, stock holding and ad-hoc reports.

- Coordinate with suppliers to organise promotional activity, including in-store promotions and Customer Days.

- Source and coordinate special offers and stock for monthly promotional activity.

- Coordinate relevant monthly promotional material and communication of in-store promotions to ensure continuity across the group (shared duty).

- Coordinate with our online Social Media activity and relevant website updates (shared duty).

- Agree and review Cosmetic Sales targets per store/clerk.

- Develop close relationships with Suppliers and internal stakeholders such as Management & Finance teams.

- Effectively communicate with store managers and staff members.

- Looking for efficiencies in existing systems and processes.

- Keeping up to date with trends and competitors in the marketplace.

For more information, please apply here.

Store Manager, Pharmacy Manager, Buyer, Merchandiser, Manager, Limerick