Buyer

Buyer

Salary: GBP36,000

Location: Windlesham

Full-Time

This is an exciting opportunity to join our friendly team and contribute to the growth and success of a selection of categories within the Garden D??cor space. The role covers both the buying and trading elements of the categories.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Senior Buyer and Head of Buying to manage the assigned categories, being responsible for the continued growth and development of categories in challenging market conditions.

Key aspects of the role:

• Ensure timely delivery of goods to maintain stock availability throughout the season.
• Managing key supplier relationships to ensure timely delivery of current and new orders, as well as reviewing trading performance and taking action in order to drive sales
• Develop and launch products that focus on the end user experience, challenging and developing current internal and competitor product offerings.
• Analyse and take ownership of sales and margin performance, provide insightful commentary and recommend and act upon trading actions.
• Monitor market activity and gather intelligence to inform pricing, delivery, product range and value propositions.
• Maintain and strengthen supplier relationships, including the negotiation and management of terms and pricing.
• Act as a representative of the organisation to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the customer service team with complex product-related queries.
• Support the demand planning function to challenge forecasts with qualitative data to inform purchasing and planning decisions and ensure inventory levels are optimised.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop and execute short- and long-term category and promotion plans.
• Work closely with marketing, content and ecommerce teams to ensure successful launch of new products.

Essential Skills / Experience:

• Experience within a purchasing team in a retail environment.
• Experience of managing categories with a focus on sales and margins.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Able to work under pressure in a highly seasonal business.
• Good understanding of the forecasting process.
• Strong communicator who must be able to communicate well internally as well as externally, developing key supplier relationships.
• Highly proficient in Excel / Google Sheets.