Buying manager Work, Jobs in Basingstoke, Ham (with Salaries)

Buying Manager
B&Q —Eastleigh
- Up to £75,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
2h
Category Manager
SNG (Sovereign Network Group) —Basingstoke
- £55,000 - £65,000 a year
- Full-time
- Travel
5d
Contracts and Reporting Manager
Hampshire County Council —Winchester
- £48,948 - £54,423 a year
- Temporary
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
Supplier Relationship Manager
SSE —Reading
- £51,600 - £77,400 a year
- Contracts
- Communication skills
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
3d
Procurement Manager
Vision RT Ltd. —Basingstoke
- Full-time
- English
- Travel
- Organisational skills
Quick apply
Senior Category Manager
AWE —Reading
- £63,270 - £85,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Free parking
- Annual leave
Head of Procurement
Commonwealth War Graves Commission —Maidenhead
- £70,000 - £75,000 a year
- Monday to Friday
- Negotiation
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
10d
Operations Manager - Global Sourcing, Procurement & Logistics
Protocol Furniture —Maidenhead
- £50,000 - £60,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- CRM software
- Microsoft Excel
- ERP systems
Quick apply
Senior Contract Manager
AWE —Reading
- £63,000 - £75,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Travel
- Contracts
- Free parking
- Annual leave
Senior Manager Purchasing
SITA Switzerland Sarl —Barcelona, Barcelona provincia
- Full-time
- Office
- IT
- Leadership
- Work from home
Procurement and Supply Chain Manager
Babcock International —Camberley
- £55,400 - £62,400 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Travel
- Contracts
- Negotiation
- Annual leave
7d
Procurement Category Manager - Damage
Avis Budget Group —Bracknell Forest
- Master's degree
- Analysis skills
- Bachelor's degree
Quick apply
FM Soft Services Contracts Manager
SSE —Reading
- £36,200 - £54,400 a year
- Full-time
- Contracts
- Employee discount
9d
Category Insight Manager
B&Q —Eastleigh
- £45,000 - £55,000 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Strategic Sourcing Manager
Ericsson —Reading
- Negotiation
10d
Supplier Management Development Lead
Public Sector Resourcing —Andover
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Management
- Communication skills
13d
Category Manager – Ingredients
Nomad Foods —Woking
- Full-time
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Negotiation
Procurement Manager
KERRIDGE COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS CORP —Hungerford
- Full-time
- ERP systems
- Microsoft Office
- Contracts
Quick apply
Inventory Planning Manager
Bauer Media Outdoor —Woking
- Hybrid work
- ERP systems
- Annual leave
- Life insurance
Quick apply
Group Services - Lead, Buyer
Porsche Cars GB Ltd —Reading
- Full-time
- Contracts
- Annual leave
Quick apply

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Buying Manager

B&Q -
Eastleigh

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Job details

Full-time
Up to £75,000 a year
2 hours ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount

Qualifications

Microsoft Powerpoint
Sourcing
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office
Purchasing
Agile
Communication skills
Negotiation

Full job description

Overview:

Buying Manager

Permanent

Up to £75,000+ Bonus + Pension + Car + PMI + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working

Southampton, Store Support Office

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Buyer and you’ll be a big part of this.

What's the job?:

Lead a category buying team and work in partnership with the Merchandiser to create and deliver an inspirational product range that meets the needs of our customers. Driving sales, margin (£GM & GM%) and market share across all channels whilst delivering vendor contributions, rebate and retail price index targets through strong vendor partnerships and negotiations. You’ll challenge the status quo, searching for exciting new partners and finding new ways of working with a view to delivering a better proposition for our customers.

Work alongside the Merchandiser to develop a category proposition that meets our customer needs, identifies opportunities, and mitigates risks, whilst delivering against sales, margin and market share targets
Become a subject matter expert on all things related to your category, using your knowledge and insights, both internal and external, to understand customer needs, predict future trends and gain a broad understanding of competitors and external factors, to help identify opportunities or future needs to drive profitable sales growth
Source, develop and select a compelling product range, encompassing branded and own label products, which reflect the category strategy, maximising our vendor base and meeting the needs of our customers across all channels, incorporating current trends and reflecting our brand, including achieving required sustainability and quality standards
Work alongside the Offer & Sourcing (O&S) team to shape and develop an own label proposition, to excite our customer base and which is appropriate for our market and customer
Work collaboratively alongside the Digital and Trade teams to develop channel propositions that meet the needs of our customers
Create a pricing architecture that ensure B&Q remains competitive within the market and in tandem with ranging decisions, delivers our vision of supporting all customers with access to DIY/Trade products

End to end vendor strategy management including contract and cost price negotiation, delivery of vendor contributions and annual performance review, working in conjunction with the Central Buying team
Manage and develop vendor relationships, including onboarding and exiting vendors, being accountable for their adherence to B&Q processes and policies e.g. technical and ethical audits, minimum standards; striving for continuous performance; identifying opportunities for growth including new services/products/concepts
Manage the buying process, with an awareness of impact on cross functional teams, allowing for flexibility, adhering to a critical path, to ensure stock is ordered and delivered on time
Working with the Merchandiser, Channel Leads and Trading team, co-create and deliver category/promotional trading plans, working with vendors to seek out opportunities
With the Merchandiser, manage the product lifecycle including range performance, identifying, and optimising trading opportunities and the delivery of promotions and range reviews
Develop collaborative marketing plans, with both vendors and internal marketing functions, to support trading, including brochures
With the Buying Assistant, ensure all products and vendors are set up in line with agreed processes, whilst ensuring data provided is both accurate and complete
Conduct regular store (digital & physical), competitor, vendor and trade show visits to increase awareness and understand trends, informing ranging and trading plans
Manage and influence stakeholders across a range of levels, internally and externally, to support the delivery of KPIs
Lead, empower and motivate your team to deliver category strategy, driving high performance and developing future talent whilst role modelling the B&Q values
Undertake other duties from time to time as may be reasonably required

What we need::

Previous experience of sourcing, buying and trading product ranges across multiple sales channels
Ability to understand customer insights and market trends
Commercially focussed with the ability to understand financial insights and translate into business deliverables
Ability to drive business performance using insights and knowledge to build compelling product ranges and agile trading plans
High level negotiation and influencing skills
Experience in vendor management and contract negotiation
Strong communicator
Ability to build relationships at all levels
Microsoft Office skills, in particular Excel and PowerPoint
An experienced Buying Manager already operating at this level

What's in it for me?:

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, car or car allowance, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!

As part of a great team, you’ll be supported to grow and encouraged to explore new career directions within the business and the wider group. And, because you’ll be inspiring great things for our customers and the whole business, you’ll do work worth caring about.

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