Assistant Buyer – Major Retailer

Salary: £19.8 per hour

Are you passionate about retail and progressing your career in buying with Britain’s largest retailer?

Then look no further because we are always on the lookout for talented individuals who want to start or develop their buying career within Commercial Product across Food and General Merchandise.
You will be working in a fast-paced, rewarding environment with a dynamic & talented team & our client will provide you with excellent training & development throughout your buying journey with them!

Our client responsibly source and buy great quality products that allow them to give customers the best offers, range, quality and price. In recent months & in response to a shift in customer shopping habits they have increased capacity from 600,000 online delivery slots to over 1.5 million a week – whichever area of Commercial Product you join, your work has the potential to positively affect the lives of millions of customers every week.

If you would like to register your interest in this Buying position, please, we would love to hear from you!

• Supporting your manager to manage supplier performance, identifying potential new suppliers and supporting them to build long term supplier relationships
• Negotiating (with support) supplier terms agreements (incl. returns), improving the trading position sustainably
• Using insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities
• Conducting regular store & website visits and reviewing customer insights, trends and competitor activity, helping shape future product and range requirements for customers
• Report and analysis preparation for your manager
• Helping to build and source customer/market insight led ranges and product innovation
• Negotiating with suppliers to agree and deliver market leading buy/move/sell plans for your areas aligned to the customer plan & category strategy with support from your manager
• Supporting delivery of trade, promotions & events plan, striving to exceed KPI’s, drive footfall and forecast accurately
• Managing samples (incl. obtaining them from suppliers as well as storage and disposal)
• Working with suppliers and quality teams to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained
• Ensuring new products and suppliers are set up accurately and on time
• Maintaining your department’s systems and trackers

You will need
• A passion for fast moving retail or experience of working in an FMCG organisation
• Influencing, stakeholder management & negotiation skills
• Able to analyse data
• Product Development/Sourcing experience is desirable but not essential

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, please apply via. this website without delay!

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