AddressInventory Officer - Wholesale Electrical
- Full Time
- On the job training
- Career opportunities
- Inhouse training programs
- Uniform supplied
- Overtime at Double Time rates (Saturday)
- Career advancement opportunities
Impress us with your stock management and negotiation skills for this great role. Experience in purchasing and wholesale is highly regarded.
Our Client With a National network of over 100 branches, our client is the largest independent electrical wholesaler in Australia and have been in business for over 90 years.
Their size and geographic diversity provides career options in broad and diverse employment areas throughout Australia. Supported by their core values their focus on customer service and innovation is leading the industry in staff development and customer satisfaction. This is a great time to join this flourishing company.
The Opportunity The primary purpose of this role is to purchase supplies in line with company policies and procedures to ensure maximum sales potential, minimise markdowns and to meet customer's needs. It is expected you will work closely with customers and the branch staff to ensure timely delivery of service and supply as well as assisting in trade counter sales.
Responsibilities include:
- Minimise cost by ensuring bulk purchases are made at the lowest price possible.
- Generate & analyse various reports.
- Knowledge of product range sold in branch & surrounding area.
- Recommend additions to the company's product range with clear reasoning on customer demand and potential profitability.
- Maintain stock levels of core stock.
- Slow & dead stock management.
- Follow-up stock & customer backorders.
- Purchasing stock & customer orders.
- Negotiate costs with suppliers
- Replenishing stock & merchandising
- Attend supplier meetings and training.
- Assist customer enquiries & trade counter sales
- Actively encourage a safety and environmentally conscious workplace.
- Strive to find new ways of improving the work environment.
Applicants will require the following to be considered:
- Previous Wholesale stock management experience
- Effective communication to all levels of management & staff
- A professional appearance, approach and attitude
- Proficient MS Office skills
- Excellent organisational abilities and time management
- Strong attention to detail
- Outstanding Customer Service skills
- Ability to self-manage and drive to succeed
- Willingness to learn and participate in training sessions
This is a great opportunity to join a well-established market leader supporting the Data & Electrical industry.
Experience in the Wholesale Electrical industry is high regarded as your product knowledge will be invaluable.
You will need to be able to perform manual handling tasks, have a current full driver's licence and available to work some overtime (Saturday mornings).
A Forklift licence is desired but not essential.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical including Drug & Alcohol screening and agree to a National Criminal History Check.
About Us
FINDMEA is a national employment agency with a passionate management team, combining over 40 years of recruitment experience to find the right people. For us, its personal. We see beyond the CV to discover your real potential.
