Senior Buyer

**Job description**

Senior Buyer is responsible for managing the company’s supply of products. Major responsibilities include strategizing to find cost-effective deals and principals. The role is to identify ways of optimizing procurement costs and developing assortment to drive growth and profitability.

**Responsibilities**
- Liaises with key company employees to determine their product and assortment needs.
- Monitors business trends and product availability to pay the best price for company goods and services without sacrificing quality or delivery times
- Nurtures relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best prices for the company
- Identifies and researches potential new brands and principals
- Researches new products and brands to meet the company's goals
- Assesses total costs of company purchases
- Develops and implements strategies for procuring, storing, and distributing goods or services and maintaining stock levels
- Devise and use fruitful sourcing strategies
- Examine and test existing contracts
- To facilitate & drive monthly forecasting process.
- To ensure all inventory is maintained within agreed levels.
- To highlight contingencies in case of possible out of stock or overstocking situation and take corrective action
- To liquidate short-expiry stocks with minimum discounting, ahead of expiry dates.
- To continuously maintain (and improvise) the mutual working relationship with all Brand Principals.
- Work closely with Principals on the development of Business Plans in the various trade channels to stay ahead of competition
- Frequently Develop & Analyze various reports and derive actionable points and follow up on same
- Prompt & Efficient Inventory management, to ensure Cost of Capital is maintained within agreed parameters.

**Qualifications**
- Graduate with a minimum of 8 years of GCC experience
- Full understanding of dynamics of FMCG products/trade in GCC
- Good communication & Presentation skills (in English).
- Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and SAP
- Possess Bahrain driving license
- Talent in negotiations and networking
- Experience in collecting and analyzing data
- Strong leadership capabilities
- Efficient, Multi-tasker, Creative thinker, Result-Oriented with good Problem Solving & People skills

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Experience**:

- Import: 8 years (required)

License/Certification:

- Bahrain Driving Licence (required)

Willingness to travel:

- 25% (required)