Fitness Buyer

Job description / Role

Aim high and be part of a leading sports retail brand in the GCC.

Purpose: To assist the brand manager for planning/buying and cascading the directions from Buying Manager to allocators/junior buyers thereby achieving the business objective.

Key Responsibilities:
- Develop product buying plans to meet key business objectives & financial goals.
- Ensure profitability while aligning customer purchasing trends with product offers in retail stores.
- Analyze historical data & current trends to identify current & future risks & opportunities
- Create clear, comprehensive product plans to ensure profitability by maintaining & building consumer focused brand lines.
- Support all product promotional activities in the stores and proactively work with the Training Department to ensure up-to- date product training is delivered to the stores.
- Prepare periodic reports on sales turnover and customer trends per product to arrive at decision to maintain, liquidate or dispose-off the stock, and-or continue/discontinue the product line.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in the field of Buying/ Merchandising
- Experience in fitness equipment and accessories as a buyer.
- A good understanding of online channels
- Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills
- Ability to deal with complex data, analyse results and present solutions

About the Company

Established in 1978, by the Baker family who still own and manage the company today, Gulf Marketing Group is one of the Middle East's leading, family owned companies. Gulf Marketing Group operates regionally, across the GCC and boasts a diverse portfolio of brands, retail outlets and services. Gulf Marketing Group subsidiaries operate in key sectors such as retail and distribution of sporting goods and lifestyle brands, health and fitness, food and food processing, integrated 3PL logistics, real estate, healthcare and pharmacies, education and technology. Since 1978, Gulf Marketing Group has introduced more than 90 international brands into the Middle East, as well as building the reputation of our homegrown brands as reliable and quality driven companies.

We are proud to be one of the top 10 retailers in the Gulf region with:

• More than three decades experience managing international brands in local environments
• A prestigious portfolio of world class brand partners
• Anchor tenancy in all major GCC shopping malls
• A proven track record of securing exclusive retail and distributor agreements
• An experienced management team
• Strong customer relationships