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** Buyer's Assistant - GM**

**Job Category****:** Purchasing **Requisition Number****:** BUYER001951 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**About Grocery Outlet:**

* **Our Mission:** Touching lives for the better

* **Our Vision:**Touching lives by being the first choice for bargain-minded consumers in the U.S.

* **Our Values & Behaviors:** Achievement, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Family, Fun, Integrity & Service

**About the Role:**

The primary responsibility of a Buyers Assistant is to provide the support required to purchase product with a focus on accurate and efficient data entry, on-time inbound logistics, and superior customer service. This role provides support to a buying team and ensures accuracy in the ordering process while facilitating communications between vendors and corresponding buyers.

**Job Responsibilities:**

* Maintains department files including purchase orders, quotes sheets, supplier lists, and other documents

* Create purchase orders; Ensure that purchase orders are completed in a timely and accurate manner

* Ensure that retails and values are properly researched and input in purchase orders

* As applicable, responsible for direct store shipments and flex order guide

* Verifies product descriptions and update elsewhere as needed

* Relentless focus on ensuring all supplier invoices are processed timely with minimal past dues

* Maintains positive working relationships and effective communication with suppliers, internal departments, stores and distribution centers

* Establishes and maintains a reputation of credibility and responsiveness; promptly returns vendor and store phone calls, ensures timely follow-up on issues within 24 hours

* Setup suppliers, items, and modules with maximum accuracy and strong attention to detail

* Responds to all store issues and inquiries promptly

* Quickly reacts and processes pinks, yellows, red alerts, price changes and corrective billings

* Ownership of Print & Digital AD Process to include product images & proofing, Purchase Order tracking,

* Other projects as needed

**About You:**

* Associate degree or 1 to 2 years retail/sales or related experience

* Proficient use of Excel, Microsoft Word and Outlook

* Excellent interpersonal skills, outgoing, willing to help others and openness to learn

* Have a strong eye for detail and strive for a high level of accuracy

* Highly organized individual

* Resourceful and able to research problems and recommend solutions

* Strong written & verbal communication skills

* Ability to prioritize and multitask with broad workload to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

* Motivated & able to operate independently while establishing strong working relationships with co-workers and cross-functional teams

* Proven team player, self-motivated, independent thinker

* Ability to adapt well to change in direction and priority in a fast- paced and deadline-oriented environment

* Ability to reprioritize tasks and work frequently

* Attention to detail identify an issue and resolve all aspects; ability to anticipate and resolve upstream and downstream impacts

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