We're looking for a Buyer who has managed an FMCG category to join our commercial team. Based at our Customer Support Centre in Walsall, the role will work on a hybrid basis. This vacancy is a fixed term contract for 12 months.
As a Buyer, you’ll support our Senior Buyer to drive performance across your FMCG category - ensuring the right products land in store at the right time and the right price. You will manage everything from building category strategies, supplier negotiations and management, sales analysis, range planning to managing critical path.
You'll take the lead on your assigned category, ensuring success through effective planning, budgeting and negotiating. Taking an essential role in our product journey, without you, our customers wouldn't be able to shop the ranges they love.
Key Accountabilities
- Identifying, creating, and developing new range opportunities, taking the lead on constructing a robust and successful plan.
- Understanding and interpreting key customer insights and data to identify and react to market trends and shopping habits.
- Meeting suppliers and attending trade fairs to build relationships, negotiate the cost of goods, and explore new opportunities.
- Seeking out opportunities or threats, resolving issues and making recommendations for action by working closely with the broader commercial team to effective manage critical paths.
- Be accountable for the development of category strategies, including research and analysis (spend analysis, cost benchmarking, etc).
For this role we need someone who is an experienced Buyer from a Retail FMCG background, is an expert negotiator, builds great working relationships and knows their way around a spreadsheet. Along with:
- Experience of delivering strategies and plans with associated targets, KPIs and performance monitoring, along with reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
- Comfortable with being agile to changing priorities.
- Strong understanding of the sector and competitor.
- Thorough understanding of the Critical Path and Supply Chain Process.
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.
- Single private medical cover.
- Annual bonus scheme, with the opportunity to earn up to 15% of your base salary.
- Car allowance of £500 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, energy, and positive approach — 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.