If you have an Assistant Buyer interview coming up soon then check out these questions to be fully ready for your big day.
You can do a mock interview with your friends via asking them to ask you following interview questions. Try to prepare your answer. Be honest. Your answer shouldn’t be too long or too short. Employers don’t have all time to listen to you. They probably have a long queue to process after you or have already done lots of interviews already and tired now.
Assistant Buyer Interview Questions
- What is your greatest achievement to date?
- What motivates you?
- What are your greatest strengths?
- Explain your duties as a buyers admin?
- What attracted me to the job?
- How are you able to multi-task?
- How did you work with your buyer admin?
- Have you got Leadership skills?
- What is your weakness at work?
- Why us?
- Why do you think you are suitable for this role?
- Do you know all our company divisions?
- What would you do to improve customer satisfaction in case you were hired?
- Why do you think you are better than other candidates?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- How do you organise yourself?
- Are you good at Math?
- What are the biggest brands we sell?
- Who are our biggest competitors? Both on high street and online.
- Tell us about your experience. What do you think you can bring to the team?
- What are your strengths? What are your key weaknesses?
- Do you have management experience?
- What is your managements style?
- Describe a time you had to re prioritise your workload and how you managed this.
- Why do you want to work for us?
- Tell me about your previous experience as buyer.
- Tell me about a time you had to step out of your comfort zone.
- What area of buying interests you most e.g Technology, clothing?
- What’s your best quality? What do you do well? What would others say about you?
- How we’ll do you know Office 365?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Give an example of how you have overcome a problem at work?
- What is the product you were working on lately? How did you handle it?
- How would you deal with a junior team member that was under performing?
- Do you have experience in negotiation as a buyer?
- Tell me about a time something dramatic happened and you had to change the way the department changed.
- Has there been a time you’ve had to change the way you work with others?
- What experience do you have from your previous job?
- What is the purpose of the critical path?
- What brand would you like to see at our department?
- What would happen if a supplier runs late on an order? And who would be responsible to solve the issue?
- What’s the toughest challenge you faced in the work place ? How do you feel about independent work ?
- How do you research trends?
- What would you bring to the team?
- Why do you want to work for us?
- How your skills and experience suit the role?
- Who are our competitors?
- What are Buyers Admin Assistant responsibilities?
- What do you know about the brand?
- What can you teach us? How will you handle reporting to two managers?
- Why do you want to apply for this role?
- What is your weakness?
- What do you prefer Instagram or Facebook?