Buyer

Salary: £36,000 per year

BUYER
STOKE ON TRENT
FULL TIME
PERMANENT
£30K

THE ROLE

* Working as part of the Buying Category Specialist team to ensure delivery of the P&Ls for the category business plan

* Developing strong relationships with key customers to ensure that their needs are understood, identifying and prioritising the best opportunities and adapting strategy where needed

* Developing & maintaining strategic partnerships with key manufacturers and suppliers to deliver the category plan

* Establishing and maintaining sound working relationships with KOL utilising their knowledge and expertise within research, communications and training as appropriate

* Working closely with the Marketing Team, ensure that all marketing activity is planned and briefed to deadlines, ensuring that customer facing teams are fully briefed on all relevant products, plans and activity as appropriate

* Establishing and maintaining sound working relationships with suppliers to achieve the best possible commercial agreements and develop new supplier relationships as appropriate to deliver product differentiation within the appropriate markets

* Providing monthly reports analysing performance against targets and KPI’s

* Attend relevant trade shows where necessary to identify new product and sourcing opportunities

* Ensuring that the Material Planners are briefed as appropriate to maintain optimum levels of stock in order to meet the customer’s needs through planning, forecasting and placing orders

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

* Previous experience within a Category Management role

* Computer literate (Excel, Power Point, Word)

* Excellent analytical skills

* Commercially minded relationship builder

* Highly motivated, results oriented individual

* Ability to travel in UK and oversees – holding a full UK Driving License

* Applicants should be aware that there will be a requirement to be DBS checked for this role

Due to the expected high number of applicants for the Buying Category Manager role, we regret that it may not be possible to respond to all unsuccessful applications.