Buying Assistant
Shoprite Group - Centurion, Gauteng
Closing date yi 3 ka August 2026
Regrettably, this position has been removed.
Purpose
To assist the Buyer with:
- Capturing buying related data on the buying system
- Handling queries from vendors, suppliers and DC stores related to the captured data; and
- General administration functions for Cash & Carry.
Requirements
- Grade 12
- Desirable: Office administration / data capturing
Skills & Competencies
- Desirable: Knowledge of Buying systems
Responsibilities
People / Learning & Growth:
- Contribute to team performance and team synergy by working effectively as a team member on all assignments
- Cooperate with colleagues to proactively resolve buying issues and escalate to Buyer when required
- Provide support and guidance to colleagues on buying issues for timeous resolution of problems
Financial:
- Ensure correct cost is loaded on DC and direct supplier to enable Instore Buyer to order stock
- Determine / extrapolate the correct pricing for different units of measure so that the correct pack size, cost and unit sale price on supplier vendor number are accurately loaded
- Quality check cost and sales price loading after Buyers and Planners set up clusters (group per brand and store size / layout module), immediately correcting any errors identified (Ranging)
- Ensure correct retail prices are loaded
DC and Store de/ranging:
- Set flags on system to range/list products at store level (Preferred – SOS)
- Liaise with Replenishers to ensure orders are placed and to relay Buyers’ delivery dates
- Capture deranging and mark down timeously whenever (update ranging)
- De/link items from DC after items have been discontinued from supplier/no longer viable for exports
General administration (reports, filing, record retention and samples):
- Maintain up-to-date and accurate filing of invoices, costing documents, new article forms, and update documents per supplier
- Generate reports for appropriate actioning and reviews by Buyer:
- Item sales and stock
- DC report (CPO exceptions 3601/387)
- Item enquiries
- Supplier reviews / supplier performance
- Stock on-hand deranged
- No movement
- Expired stock
- 6 week stock on-hand
- Loss report
- Backorders older than one day
- Scheduled appointments for suppler deliveries
- Listing changes
- Overlapping cost pricing d
- Incomplete misalignment of data
- Lookups
Additional Information
- If you don’t hear from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
- Any personal information collected as part of your application will be destroyed, securely, in accordance with South African legislation.
Ref No
- SHO260724-1
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