We're looking for an experienced Senior Buyer to join our General Merchandise Retail Buying team based in Walsall. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract offering the flexibility of hybrid working.
As a Senior Buyer, you'll take ownership of key categories across Home and Everyday Home, driving commercial performance, leading the implementing of trading strategies and effectively managing budgets and resources. You'll play a pivotal role in maximising sales, profitability, and sustainable growth through effective category management, critical path delivery, and people leadership.
This is fantastic opportunity to grow the categories through gaining understanding our customer and brand; and by leading the team to source and develop the right product and design ranges that excite our customer whilst continuing to offer great quality and value.
With autonomy and trust to make an impact from day one, you will:
- Contribute to the achievement of the Commercial strategy and key performance indicators through effective leadership.
- Drive revenue, margin, and gross profit across commercial divisions and brands.
- Lead the development and execution of product range reviews to optimize category performance.
- Set and meet key performance objectives related to sales, margin, and other critical operational metrics.
- Implement the company’s strategic plan, tailoring it to each category’s needs.
- Drive initiatives aimed at boosting sales, reducing costs, and improving product delivery.
- Lead the definition and implementation of the business division's growth strategy, informed by competitive insights and market trends.
- Identify, create, and develop new product range opportunities, taking ownership of crafting compelling business proposals that secure new deals, contracts, and long-term partnerships.
- Identify opportunities for new private label categories and enhance the performance and positioning of existing own-brand ranges.
- Take responsibility for developing comprehensive business plans and overseeing the sales and space budgeting process to achieve strategic goals.
- Champion process development and continuous improvement, driving efficient and impactful changes across the Commercial team.
- Cultivate a positive, high-performance culture within the Buying team.
- Recognize and reward outstanding performance while addressing any underperformance constructively.
- Provide targeted tactical recommendations to the Director of Trade and Commercial Director, backed by relevant insights and intelligence.
- Assist in developing reporting systems that offer actionable insights to the business and leadership teams, enabling informed and efficient decision-making.
We are seeking someone with:
- Previous experience in a Senior Buyer with proven success with FMCG Retail Buying.
- Deep understanding of the sector, including market dynamics, competitors, and consumer behaviour.
- Strong capability to negotiate contracts, terms, and prices with suppliers.
- A proven record of driving cost savings, efficiency improvements, and strategic sourcing.
- Strong working knowledge the FMCG sector, including market dynamics, competitors, and consumer behaviour.
- The ability to lead a high performing team and effectively manage poor performance.
- Previous success in building collaborative supplier relationships and negotiating contracts that enhance profitability and efficiency
We offer rewards that go beyond the payslip, including:
- 10% employee discount card with increased discount events over the year.
- Celebrate your birthday, you’ll get an extra day off for your birthday.
- Holidays, 33 days a year inc banks.
- Family private medical cover.
- Annual bonus scheme, with the opportunity to earn up to 25% of your base salary.
- Car allowance of £600 per month.
- Free parking onsite.
- Pension scheme for your future, with up to 5% employer matched contributions.
- We put wellbeing first through our partnership with Retail Trust which gives you and your family access to a fantastic range of resources.
- My Staff Shop, giving you an amazing number of discounts and shopping vouchers.
- For those unexpected moments, our partnership with stream enables you to access up to 50% of your monthly earned wages early, along with savings and financial advice.
- Training and development opportunities, we want you to grow your career with us, be that through one of the qualifications we offer or internal programmes, this role can be just the first step.
- Plus, life assurance, loyalty service awards and more.
Bring your leadership, commercial mindset, and ability to inspire teams— and we’ll help you build your career with us!
We’re committed and proud to our inclusive culture, and that starts with the recruitment and selection process. If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please do share this with us on your application form and we’ll make every effort to meet your needs.
