Wholesale buy

A Wholesale Buyer spends a significant amount of time negotiating with suppliers. They also have the following daily duties and responsibilities:

• Analyse and forecast trends by using consumer data
• Attend trade fairs to find new products for the organisation to sell
• Negotiate prices, delivery dates and orders
• Develop an accurate and efficient system for monitoring open purchase orders
• Provide management with a weekly purchase order report covering all vendor invoice numbers for closed purchase orders
• Collaborate with the inventory management team to make sure that the deliveries align to the assigned purchase orders and to identify missing or back-ordered items
• Assist the Supply Chain Manager to maintain inventory levels properly
• Establish lines of contact with field management teams to make sure all field purchase orders are accurate