Overview
Buying Assistant Jobs in Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland at AS Watson
Title: Buying Assistant
Company: AS Watson
Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Who We Are
You may not have heard of us, but you’ll know our brands! A.S. Watson is the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer with over 16,800 stores in 29 markets. Each year, over 5.3 billion customers and members shop with our well-known retail brands, both online and offline, including the likes of Rossman, Superdrug, Kruidvat, Watson’s, Marionnaud, The Perfume Shop, and many more.
We’re looking for a passionate individual that wants to make the difference together with us and put a smile on our customers face.
In this position, you’ll be supporting the International Buying Team in optimizing cost and margin across multiple markets in Europe through tenders and international negotiations. Your focus will include supporting the administration and operational execution of international tenders including but not limited to tender preparation, data compilation, supplier sourcing, contract management, meeting organization, product sample coordination.
A Typical Day In This Role Includes
Daily project support of buyers in Zurich, and interactions with European business units, and suppliers
Support tendering process from supplier sourcing, NDA and T&Cs signing, to tender document preparation, contract signing, reporting files
Coordinate communication across the Group, support meetings and conference calls.
Administration duties including – contract filing, product sample coordination
Regular status review with the Buying Team to adjust priorities
Occasional short trip to international meetings circa 3 times/year over 3 days each.
This role would be a good fit for you if:
You enjoy supporting others and have strong customer focus mindset
You understand how retail and procurement departments operate
You are good at organizing, tracking, communicating, analyzing, and love managing multiple projects.
You can work independently and at fast pace
You can easily handle multiple projects and deal with ambiguity.
You are flexible and focus on solutions rather than challenges
You want to make a difference and enjoy taking the extra mile.
What You’ll Need
Some solid experience as Team assistant.
University graduate or equivalent with commercial background
Ability to have high attention to detail, maintaining the highest standard of accuracy and affinity with numbers
Fluent in English. Other additional languages are considered highly beneficial especially German and Dutch.
Excellent command of Office 365, Excel, PowerPoint. Command of new tools such as AI/Canva, etc, is a plus.
Your leadership experience will have equipped you to build relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels with an immediate credible and professional perception
Positive attitude and constant energy is natural to you
What You’ll Get From Us
Competitive salary
Discounts for you and your family from some our much-loved brands
25 days holiday
Excellent refer-a-friend scheme with referral bonus’ up for grabs!
A fantastic learning and development offering to explore
Lots of opportunities to get involved in wellbeing initiatives to support your physical and mental health
…plus much More!
