Junior Tech Buyer

at  The Warehouse

Company Description
Are you passionate about the latest tech gadgets and accessories? Do you have a keen eye for trends and a knack for negotiation? We have the perfect opportunity for you!
The Warehouse Group (TWG) is a New Zealand success story, evolving from a single The Warehouse store to become one of the largest multi-brand retailing groups in New Zealand. As a company, we’re continuing our innovative and progressive journey – with bold new ways of moving forward, empowering teams and with more effective collaboration and communication, we have our customers top of mind and work purposefully together, “Helping Kiwis live better every day”.
Job Description
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic Junior Buyer to join our team and help drive our tech accessories department to new heights. As a Trainee Buyer, you will play a pivotal role in sourcing, selecting, and purchasing the best tech accessories for our customers. With loads of real-time learning and development opportunities, these opportunities are great for a self-starters with a good base knowledge of buying or solid buyers’ assistance experience to kickstart your buying career in our dynamic environment!
Our Buying Team are passionate experts in buying and range selection, creating customer-centric product ranges that delivers commercial results whilst exciting our customers! Buying Chapter Members oversee, develop and drive category performance for the business and strengthen our product range and offerings that show up and enhance our customers’ lives everyday!

Build your exposure to our buying process and strategy, start by looking after a smaller category portfolio, working cross-functionally to help develop and implement the strategic and tactical execution of the merchandise plan, work across a mix of suppliers and sourcing offices to build the best range of products – Your work will translate to products that resonate with customers and delivering for the business. Align to the squad’s mission, ensure the right assortment of products and translate the strategy into actionable deliverables to deliver to meet the squad’s mission and commercial goals!

• Analysing product and market trends (both local and global) and building ranges and promotions that our customers love
• Delivering on sales and profit
• Working cross-functionally to help develop and implement the strategic direction

Qualifications
Firstly, you’re as passionate about retail! You’re commercial and customer-centric in your approach - perhaps you’ve had some exposure to buying/category management or supported in a buyers’ assistant capacity and are ready to step forward to manage your own portfolio! You can easily point to a few examples you’ve made sound customer-centric and commercial decisions or understand the levers of products and categories well.

You would thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional working environment, with a real growth mindset for what you do and how you can do it better. Your drive to contribute whilst taking ownership means you work effectively, both independently and collaboratively to deliver your best work and commercial results for the business.

• Some buying experience or solid buyers’ assistants – good exposure to retail buying
• A critical thinker with sound business and customer-centric thinking
• Decisiveness in a fast-moving environment
• Curious, innovative and collaborative

Additional Information
What’s in it for you? We offer a dynamic, supportive team environment within a business that cares about and recognises individuals. The business is at an exciting point in its life story as we continue to innovate, we aim to make TWG New Zealand’s best place to work

• Some buying experience or solid buyers’ assistants – good exposure to retail buying
• A critical thinker with sound business and customer-centric thinking
• Decisiveness in a fast-moving environment
• Curious, innovative and collaborativ