Pharmacy Retail Buyer - Limerick
(4 days a week)
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 prioritise their workload.
- Strong communicator with the ability to communicate with all levels of the business.
- Ability to generate ideas and market them.
- 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 suppliers' orders or 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
