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You Will

- Negotiate pricing, payment terms, promotional support, contracts, and supply agreements to maximize value and achieve business objectives.
- Prepare and issue purchase orders while proactively monitoring delivery schedules to ensure timely replenishment and product availability.
- Monitor inventory levels and optimize stock to minimize shortages, overstock, shrinkage, and product waste.
- Analyze sales trends, customer demand, seasonal patterns, market conditions, and supplier performance to support data-driven purchasing decisions.
- Partner closely with Sales, Operations, Warehouse, Finance, and Quality Assurance teams to ensure smooth execution of purchasing activities and category initiatives.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships while resolving delivery, quality, pricing, and supply issues in a timely and professional manner.
- Support product selection, new product launches, assortment optimization, cost reduction initiatives, and margin improvement opportunities to enhance category performance.
- Review purchasing reports, inventory reports, sales performance, and market intelligence to identify trends and make informed buying decisions. Ensure all purchasing activities comply with Company policies, food safety standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.

You Should Have / Be

- Minimum 3 years of retail procurement, buying, or category management experience, preferably within the grocery or retail industry.
- Fluent in both English and Chinese (reading, writing, and speaking) to effectively communicate with suppliers and cross-functional teams.
- Strong product knowledge within the assigned merchandise category.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint,



with the ability to analyze and interpret business data.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities with sound commercial judgment.
- Solid understanding of inventory management, cost control, shrinkage reduction, and margin optimization.
- Ability to make timely purchasing decisions based on sales data, market trends, customer demand, and business priorities.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to balance cost, quality, delivery, inventory investment, and customer expectations.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and consistently meet deadlines. Willingness and ability to travel as required.

This is an active job posting for a currently vacant position. We are recruiting to fill this role as part of our ongoing operational needs.

Benefits

- Performance bonuses
- Extended health/dental/vision care
- Retirement benefit
- Life/AD&D; insurance
- Paid vacation, sick, marriage, bereavement leaves
- 10% in-store staff purchase discount
- Subsidized staff meal

Shift 5 to 6-day work week, shift work is required, may include weekdays, weekends, and statutory holidays

Safety Statement

Safety continues to be T&T; Supermarket’s top priority. We’ve established health and safety policies and measures to ensure our Stores, Food Processing & Production Centres and Warehouse & Distribution are as safe as possible.

T&T; Supermarket is an Equal Chance Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, age, veteran status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

📌 Senior Buyer (Perishable) (Markham)
🏢 Tu0026T Supermarket
📍 Markham