POSITION: BUYER
DEPARTMENT: BUYING
LOCATION: CAPE TOWN
If your heart beats for fashion and you're always ahead of the next trend, this job is calling you.
As a Buyer at PEP Africa, you’ll drive product strategy from concept to shelf, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders such as Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations and with suppliers, leading product development, and delivering value to our remarkable Customers. This is a high-impact, high-energy role made for someone who doesn’t just follow fashion, but shapes it.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
Formulate a departmental strategy, ensuring a balanced product range that aligns with PEP Africa's overarching business objectives and strategy. Oversee product development across diverse categories, from conceptualisation to market delivery and sales. Maintain critical path management, quality assurance processes, cost control, margin optimisation, and range equilibrium, all tailored to the preferences of PEP Africa's customer base. All selected commodities must contribute positively to PEP Africa's profit margins and price points, in accordance with departmental directives and business strategy.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
● Development of departmental Product and Marketing strategy
● Range development & sourcing from concept to delivery
● Quality assurance of signed off range based on critical path
● Critical path management
● Product and sales performance analysis, feedback & problem solving
● OTB (Open to Buy) control and budget management
● Supplier management, control & performance
● PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) & administrative duties linked to order
management
● Product cost management & reporting
● Price and margin management & reporting
● Promotions & Visual Merchandise strategic intent and roll out
● Ad hoc duties and projects as required
JOB REQUIREMENTS
● Qualification in Fashion design, Clothing & Textiles or similar
● 3+ years’ experience as a fully-fledged Buyer
● Computer literacy: Advanced MS Office / GSuite
● Creative, eye for detail and analytical
● Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and have good people skills
● Willingness to travel extensively to and within Africa, China, UK, USA and Europe
● Comfortable with buying processes & systems
● Able to function independently
● South African citizen
Competencies required: Honesty; Passion & Resourcefulness; Solution orientation; Detail
orientation; Planning, Organizing and Control; Service orientation; Stress tolerance; Confidence and decisiveness; Building and maintaining relationships, Ability to function independently and excellent communication skills.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
