E-commerce Sales & Purchasing Manager

Our client, established for over 20 years, as a Chandlery shop  Out Board Motor Sales and Service Centre. They have a great reputation for customer service, quality of product and delivery time.

A fantastic opportunity working as an E-commerce Sales & Purchasing Manager has arisen, due to need to concentrate more on  internet selling. They are looking for someone experienced and ready to join a small team of people committed to great customer service. They are offering a great starting salary of £18,000, increasing up to £22,000, with a 40 hour working week, with days to be agreed.

E-commerce Sales Duties:

• Day to day maintenance and operation of company websites
• Manage the online product catalogue, updating and removing products as required
• Add new products to the website, with good content, data and images to generate sales
• Work alongside the Product Manager to source images and data from suppliers
• Ensure maximum visibility across all sales platforms
• Analyse product pricing and competitors, managing the Pricetrakker system to increase sales
• Monitor daily product feed accuracy on search engines and market places
• Verify affiliate reports on e-commerce activity to facilitate business decisions
• Work within the e-commerce function as a team member, not limiting work to particular disciplines
• Display an open approach to learning new skills within e-commerce, including pay-per-click advertising and analytics

Purchasing Manager Duties:

• Ensure competition in the market place and report on trends
• Analyse market results to recommend improvements and suggest new strategies
• Control the inventory of stock by identifying, reducing and eliminating slow moving stock
• Streamline the variety of stock held
• Determine the cost and profitability of the stockholdings
• Determine when products are to be recommended for discontinuation
• Manage the performance of suppliers and ensure that goods are delivered on time
• Place orders with suppliers, updating all data aspects of the supply chain, including order confirmations, expected delivery dates etc.
• Carryout price comparisons with alternate suppliers and prepare costs on potential savings
• Plan obsolescence of stock
• Monitor and report on clearance stock
• Monitor stock turnover and ensure that the right mix of products are in stock
• Liaise with suppliers regarding the return of stock and ensure all supplier debit notes are received in a timely manner
• Constantly question current practices, identifying opportunities for improvement
• Implement improvement changes in liaison with the Managers
• Overseeing the running of the shop

Candidate specification for the role of E-commerce Sales & Purchasing Manager:

• Ability to manage a small team of people independently
• Experience in e-commerce, ideally ebay, internet selling
• Supply chain experience, ideally demand planning related
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written forms
• Team player
• Knowledge and/or interest of boats, desirable

The company is situated in Nateby, Garstang..If you carry the relevant experience and personal attributes to work as an E-commerce Sales & Purchasing Manager, with a great approach to learning new skills and generating sales, then we would like to hear from you. To apply for this position, please click the APPLY button to forward us a copy of your CV.