Category Buyer

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Well Pharmacy Full time
Overview of the role

We have big growth plans for 2023 and this opportunity is to manage and deliver the Medicines, Skin, allergy and other category budgets through to growing market share, sales and margin.

You'll also manage the online in-Pharmacy ranges.

You'll be analytical, very customer and insights driven as well as adept at problem solving through to finding creative solutions.

Main Responsibilities

  • Deliver sales, margin and funding to meet financial objectives set in Budgets and forecasts for defined categories both in store and online
  • Develop and deliver promotional programme for each category to maximise sales and profit in order to meet financial and volume targets. Ensure promotional performance is reviewed and revised to deliver a promotional plan to excite the customer and ensure that the proposition is competitive
  • Deliver comprehensive and robust range reviews on time and to budget. Ensure that range performance is continually reviewed and remedial action taken where appropriate following Senior Buyer approval
  • Continually monitor range level pricing to ensure all products are competitive and profit maximised within agreed pricing strategy guidelines
  • Manage and develop supplier relationships across all categories to ensure the effective sourcing of products and to maximise supplier funding in order to achieve the budgeted supplier funding target.
  • Monitor the competition and supplier activity on a monthly basis to ensure the maximum level of market and competitor awareness to facilitate appropriate remedial action where required and identify sales and profit opportunities
  • Take responsibility for ensuring a thorough knowledge of the market by keeping up to date with all relevant market information supplied by IRI/Kantar/Mintel etc. Ensure that key market trends are represented in all defined categories on a timely basis and inline with the competition
  • To provide timely and accurate communication to stores and the operations team to ensure success in delivery of range reviews, promotional plans and other category initiatives
  • Work closely with the Space Planning team as required and as directed by the Senior Buyer to ensure delivery of the most appropriate micro space planograms to ensure customer expectations are met and sales and profit budgets and forecasts are achieved.
  • Work closely with the Stock Planning team as required and as directed by the senior Buyer to ensure availability of stock and resolution of supplier related issues to ensure customer expectations are met and sales and profit budgets and forecasts are achieved.

Key knowledge and skills required:

  • Good knowledge of retail buying, ideally FMCG experience
  • Proven track record in similar role
  • Excellent Communication skills
  • Excellent Negotiation Skills
  • High Degree of Computer Literacy
  • Strong planning and organisational skills
  • Ability to work to time pressures in a fast moving and rapidly changing market
  • Good financial awareness and ability to interpret data
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Is highly motivated, driven, and prepared to take the initiative
  • Is comfortable with ambiguity and conflicting priorities
  • Thrives on a high pressure results driven environment
  • Is prepared to challenge others, especially more senior colleagues.
  • Has a real passion to succeed and hit targets
  • Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you_.
About The Company
For over 70 years, we've been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK.

Well Pharmacy is the third largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.


Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today.

It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.


We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us.

Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the po

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