Head of Buying

7 months ago

Coventry, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time

**Please note this role can be based from either of our offices in Ansty Park, Coventry or Holborn, London
This role orchestrates delivery of the Clothing Commercial Strategy by building the Customer Proposition for Kids & Menswear. You will work alongside the specialists in Merchandising, Global Design, Global Sourcing, Innovation, Customer Insights and Commercial Strategy. You will be obsessed with executing ranges across channels that surprise, delight and exceed our customers’ expectations. You will do this by demonstrating strategic thinking and the ability to work on broader initiatives whilst being adept at switching your focus to more detailed commercial delivery when it is appropriate to do so.

**What you need to do**
- Generate a clear category plan, with a compelling product vision for own-brand and branded products, designed to meet target customer missions and which identifies key market opportunities for growth across channels.
- Be accountable for partnering with the relevant specialist teams to deliver against commercial targets, sourcing strategy, quality benchmarking, channel metrics and product strategy for your area of responsibility.
- Be a champion for sustainability through both how we do things and the product we deliver.
- Build a compelling annual customer plan, working in conjunction with Merchandising and Digital to formulate and execute the overall pricing and promotions strategy that delivers against the commercial category plan.
- Demonstrate agility in a complex Trading environment, potentialising category opportunities and responding to changing market, customer and trend dynamics to maximise commercial return & profitability.
- Joint accountability with Head of Merchandising to plan, build and deliver against category budgets for sales, profit and stock.
- Partner with Global Sourcing to agree and execute the Sourcing Strategy for your area of responsibility, aligned with the overall Clothing Commercial Strategic Plan. Motivate, inspire, coach and develop a diverse high performing team that embraces change in the face of ambiguity and role models Sainsbury’s values whilst delivering against commercial metrics.

**What you need to know & show**
- Demonstrable experience working across multiple retail sectors and/or retail models, ideally with specialist experience in the Clothing, Jewellery & Watches markets.
- In-depth understanding of the broader UK market, constantly open to seeking new opportunities that create competitive advantage, as well as having an understanding of International retail dynamics that influence UK customer behaviour.
- Strong financial and commercial awareness built in a trading retail environment.
- Develop and maintain strong senior relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, socialising the category plan to gain buy-in and support across the business.
- A strategic thinker, who puts the customer at the heart of decision-making, striking the balance between driving business metrics & longer-term objectives, based on optimising the balance of data, multiple perspectives and own intuition.
- Be curious: discover and investigate new opportunities to evolve our business beyond your functional area.
- Ability to deliver inspirational, inclusive leadership, fostering a values-driven culture, where all colleagues can be themselves and fulfil their potential.
- Show a high degree of self-awareness, understand the benefit of continuing professional development and exhibit a deep passion for continuous learning and seek to provide and share knowledge widely.
- Demonstrate gravitas, a highly impactful communication style, able to influence & engage at all levels.
- Consistently exceeds results through the setting of high standards, and galvanising others around common objectives.

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