Purchasing manager

Assure Personnel are pleased to be supporting an Industrial client who supply products internationally. They are looking for a Purchasing Manager/ Buying Manager to join their team in Loughton, this role will be reporting into the Director.Responsibilities

* Selection of all new products for wholesale & retail trade
* Sign off on all stock purchase orders and pricing
* Full stock availability
* Identifying products and ranges to enhance the product offering
* Working with the buying, test and marketing teams to make sure products come to market within given time frames
* Scheduling all new product testing and product evaluation with the in-house engineering team to meet current directives
* Viewing all goods inward Quality Control reports, new product evaluation reports, warranty reports and making company decisions as to next course of action
* Deciding with the team what items will be deleted from the range
* Working with marketing team to identify products for promotional activity
* Managing the flow of new products from import through the new product engineering team and then private label development with marketing
* Setting the Trade and Retail prices for all newly selected products based on company margin requirements
* Ongoing review of retail market to ensure that current and new products are competitive
* Selection of inbound shipping agencies.