About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Buying Manager to join our convenience business to lead, manage and deliver company sales and margin targets by planning, developing, sourcing and negotiating competitively priced product ranges across all available channels.
The team is responsible for multiple complex categories and large budgets.
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Identifying and all future opportunities and driving the long term strategic direction for your categories
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Agreeing and ensuring the delivery of your team’s margin and profitability targets for their categories, for now and in the future
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Collaboratively working with key stakeholders to resolve issues and drive the business forward.
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Effective relationships with Marketing and Trade Planning to ensure customer moments are brought to life through trading space across the store.
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Recruit, develop and manage a team of Buying Managers and Buyers to deliver personal goals and business targets.
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Create a teamwork culture, to deliver the best results
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Continuously challenge people, process and systems to ensure we deliver the best value for our customers
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Ensure me and my Category deliver on time and in full and always lead by example
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Leading your Buying Team,l to develop and deliver the right range at the right price into stores.
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Have a vision for the departments buying strategy, planning a commercial product range that is in line with the company brand values, sales and margin targets.
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Supporting your team to create strategic category plans, and then securing confidence and buy in from the Leadership Team.
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Always consider the way we merchandise products in store and the associated impacts. and regularly visit stores to gain valuable insight from customers and colleagues.
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Maximising profitable sales growth and developing market opportunities across multiple categories.
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Taking ultimate responsibility for GSCOP compliance, ensuring all team members are trained on, and comply with, all GSCOP requirements and associated internal policies.
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Leading your team to ensure that they are engaging with Finance and Trade Planning to define and manage the budgets to ensure effective use and control.
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Taking a leadership role, and being a point of escalation in difficult negotiations, with suppliers to optimise value (including sales and margin) and operational efficiencies around product sourcing, supply, availability for the long term.
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Developing, prioritising and executing the category strategy based on clear customer metrics in order to maximize sales and margin
About You
We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:
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Track record as a Senior Buying Manager/Buying Manager in a similar environment
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Managing teams
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A proven negotiator - ideally with Branded experience
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Proven experience of delivering category strategies in a complex, competitive market
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A strong customer centricity with a track record of putting the customer first
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Ability to work at pace, in a fast and flexible environment with drive, energy and enthusiasm
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Significant commercial understanding with an excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision making background
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Experience of building relationships at all levels to drive commercial benefits
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Experience of implementing and driving unified strategies in a complex business environment
About The Company
Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.
Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.
We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.
Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…
Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;
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15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family member
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Company car / Car cash plan
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Annual bonus scheme
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Generous holiday entitlement
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4.5 day working week with flexible working hours
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Company pension contributions
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Private family healthcare cover
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Perks with over 850 retailers
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Free parking onsiteS