Consumer Buyer

• Development of the commercial strategy for our core Front of Shop categories


• Promotional cycle development for sections


• To represent Consumer team at the weekly trade meetings and to be an active participant.


• Working closely with the Retail and Sales team to source and range best in class products for the market


• Reviewing category performance and providing insights to our management team


• Ensure the roll\-out of planograms and associated support documents


• Actively driving cross\-selling, working closely with our Operations team


• Responsible for the communication of all commercial strategies to our Operations team


• Developing \& managing supplier relationships in order to deliver JBP and planogram compliance


• Use of the BI reporting suite to provide greater insights into category and range performance to help support decision\-making.


• To be a representative of the Consumer team at trade shows \& supplier events


• Work closely with the Operations team to develop our relationship with our symbol \& franchise members to support driving their business.


• Day to day responsibilities include:


• Contributing to the day to day running of the Commercial buying team


• Ensuring our group sales, margin \& JBP budgets are achieved


• Responsible for stock of our Healthcare categories in owned estate, managing dead/over/dated stock and supporting the stores with sell through as required


• Updating the Commercial Director regularly on department development


• Taking an active role in the weekly commercial team meetings


• Ensuring suppliers are met in a timely manner and prioritized according to importance


• Ensuring all retail pricing is aligned with department margin targets \& market pricing on the database


• Ensure database team have all relevant supplier \& pricing information for categories


• Building a robust promotions calendar, encompassing JBP agreements


• Development of the category plans \& strategies


• Ensuring planograms are updated based on schedule


• Attending trade shows where appropriate


• Contributing relevant information for board packs


• Ensuring strategies are communicated through our channels


• Attending meetings weekly


• Key Skills \& Experiences


• Minimum 2\+ years in a similar buying role


• Pharmacy buying experience desirable


• Excellent numerical \& analytical skills to include excellent computer literacy \& comprehensive experience with all MS products such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc


• Ability to work in a diverse, fast paced environment

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