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This will be a key role to support the Buying team drive the performance against sales and margin targets, maximizing in-season opportunities and affecting future inventory.\nFunctional Roles and Responsibilities\nEnsuring all necessary records, files and databases are maintained accurately and updated in a timely manner.\nCreating new items, and purchase orders and maintaining cost and retail price changes.\nEnsuring timely entering of all seasonal orders, to meet requested deadlines. In addition, checking and providing overviews/ summaries of all orders placed.\nValidating of order confirmations against invoices and orders.\nMaintain the product hierarchy; ensuring product data is accurate and consistent.\nCreate the master file ensuring accurate and correct data enrichment.\nEnsure supplier setup is complete including estimated landed costs.\nProvide finance department with details for drafting letters of credit and submit for supplier approval.\nCheck all supplier order confirmation details received are correct, support the Buyers to resolve any queries with the supplier, buying and finance in a timely fashion to adhere to any supplier deadlines.\nManage all aspects relating to the shipments and logistical processing.\nManage return to vendor requests (RTV's), ensuring effective communication to suppliers.\nProduce weekly % shipped report. Ensure PO shipment trackers are maintained, delivery dates managed and deviances are escalated to buyers and planners. 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