A key role within the Commercial Team, the Buying Assistant supports the Retail Buyers with building category plans & driving Front of Shop sales within our 300+ pharmacy group. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is interested in Buying to join a fast-paced Commercial team.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Supporting the OTC Buyer with all administrative tasks relating to the Front of Shop categories
Managing the monthly promotions process on agreed symbol brands
Producing monthly promotions communications & liaising with the Marketing & Operations teams on POS and implementation
Sourcing pricing submissions & imagery from suppliers in a timely manner
Working closely with the EPOS database team on product set up & accuracy on system
Working closely with the wholesale team on stock forecasting & pricing
Team lead on communications with the stores on stock, ranges & promotions
Supporting the buyers on stock & margin reviews
Any other reasonable requests

QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIRED

EPOS/SAP experience an advantage
A strong understanding of the pharmacy market an advantage
Minimum 1+ year experience in a similar retail buying role
Ability to work cross functionally with internal teams
Strong attention to detail

COMPETENCIES

Excellent numerical & analytical skills to include strong experience with all MS products with a particular focus on Excel & PowerPoint
Positive ‘problem solving’ mentality who is willing to grow in the role
A strong communicator who is able to work closely with wider retail teams.

Uniphar – Who we are

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.

Supply Chain & Retail

Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, McCauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.

Culture at Uniphar

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.

Buying Assistant

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