Head of Trading

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Holland & Barrett Full time

It's a really exciting time to be at Holland & Barrett. We are investing across all areas of our business with a vision of empowering our customers to live happier, healthier lives. Our mission is to be the leading player in global wellness chosen by millions as their trusted partner for personalised wellness journeys. To achieve this goal, we are embarking on a radical transformation. We are recruiting top talent in all areas of our business, from Finance to Digital Marketing, from HR to IT, as well as new functions around Health and Wellness.**The Role**:
**Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities**

We have an ambitious strategy to launch a series of new wellness products and services to customers. This is an exciting time for H&B and the Head of Trading: Food role is crucial in ensuring we deliver to our roadmap and plans.

We've transformed our Global Food Strategy and now seek a highly experienced commercial leader to lead the UK&I Food Category Trading team. Working with the UK&I Commercial Trading Director, you will be responsible for driving the commercial success of our Food category, with a primary focus on maximising revenue and growth targets. This is a huge opportunity to help transform the team, approach to trading and ways of working. A growth mindset is essential.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**As a Head **o**f** **Trading**:

- **Food, **you'll** **be responsible for**:

- P&L Accountability: Ensuring commercial and customer targets are delivered.
- Strategic Trading: Oversea trading strategies within the Food Category team for the UK&I market, focusing on maximising commercial targets.
- Range Selection: Using our existing Global Catalogue, select brands and products for the UK&I market, considering market trends, customer preferences and commercial viability.
- Market Review: Conduct regular market reviews to identify emerging trends, competitor activities, and pricing dynamics to inform trading decisions and strategies.
- Collaborate with the global food product development team: Working to identify new and emerging brands, categories and propositions that deliver first to market customer centric innovation and services.
- Collaborate closely with other cross-functional teams to align trading strategies with overall business objectives.
- Deliver strong, sustainable supplier relationships.
- Managing the full product lifecycle: Via data driven category reviews, to agreed financial KPI's and timescales.
- Lead the Food Trading team: Develop and coach the Food Category team.

**Location**:We have bases in Nuneaton, London and Burton, and some travel may be required to all locations. There may also be occasional travel outside of the UK. We're a global, digitally enabled business and we expect our colleagues to be self-driven and to determine the most appropriate place to work each day to meet the requirements of the role, achieve their best performance and optimum output.

**The Person**:
**Key Requirements**:

- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in food trading, recent Food Retail experience is essential, Direct to Consumer and International experience is an advantage.
- Proven leadership and stakeholder management experience in a fast-paced commercial environment.
- Confident using insights and data to drive action and improve commercial trading performance.
- Experience of operating within an omnichannel environment, with a significant focus on driving Digital performance being advantageous.
- A collaborative and can-do approach is essential. Someone who is also willing and able to get involved from an operational perspective when required.
- Highly numerate and analytical with experience of delivering commercial targets.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills.
- Previous experience of delivering strategy and budget management in a retail environment. Experience in managing multiple direct reports and indirectly influencing supporting functions.
- Understanding of sourcing and procuring high-quality, sustainable and healthy food products that meet the nutritional needs of customers.
- Knowledge of food safety regulations.
- A personal interest in food innovation and excellent knowledge of global food trends is essential.

**What we offer**:
**Our Benefits** for this role include, but not limited to:

- H&B Employee Discount - 25%
- Bonus
- Pension company contribution
- 33 Days Holiday per year (Inclusive of bank holidays)
- Private Medical Care
- Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
- Electric Car Scheme

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.

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**Division**:
UK&I

**City**:
London

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