Buyer
7 months ago
**Job purpose**
Ensure continuous supply for all products and related consumables from our global supplier base, to support our availability targets. Take ownership and drive pricing negotiations for given category, ensuring QA standards are maintained, lead contract negotiations and maintenance, setting retail prices and delivering margin target in all markets.
Undertake NPD on regional ranges while introducing new packaging specifications to comply with our sustainability policy.
Support Merchandising colleagues to ensure both long term volume commitments are met while ensuring enough flexibility within the supply chain to manage short term changes in demand.
Support the Head of Buying in developing long term sourcing options. Support supply chain colleagues with securing customs and compliance documentations from suppliers.
**Key responsibilities**
- Buy product ranges that fit and fulfil our business strategy.
- Manage suppliers, including pricing negotiation, NPD selection, contract negotiations and commitments, maintain product specifications and ensure all products and administration is legally compliant in relevant markets.
- Monitor and maintain buying margin to hit budget. Recommending actions if budgets are not being hit and maintained.
- Work with internal colleagues to ensure zero wastage and constant supply from internally manufactured products.
- Tender relevant ranges to increase margins.
- Reduce packaging use to increase sustainability and reduce costs and ensure all packaging is compliant with internal operational machinery.
- Ensure all customs paperwork and EUTR assessments arrive from suppliers on time and in full.
- Work with Buying Admin Assistant to ensure that all the correct data is loaded on to internal systems.
- Support Buying & Merchandising team with long term sourcing strategy.
- Support merchandising colleagues to resolve any short-term changes in supply and deliver against availability targets
**Key skills and attributes**
- Negotiation skills
- Strong commercial acumen
- Analytical skills, and transform data into actions
- Presentation skills and ability to order your thoughts and plans with clarity
- Excellent communication skills - keep it simple and clear
- Collaborative and respectful
- Self motivated and engaged
**Beneficial experience (if applicable)**
- Previous buying experience or experience in worktops
- Knowledge of international supply chain
- Willingness to travel (when safe to do so)
- Driving Licence
**Our background**
With our headquarters in Gloucester, Direct Online Services is a dynamic and progressive eCommerce-led omnichannel retailer of kitchen products. Founded in 2009, we have enjoyed consistent levels of profitable growth since inception, primarily through our flagship brand Worktop Express, the UK’s #1 online worktop retailer selling over 220,000 worktops per year to our B2C consumer base.
The business recently joined the €1bn+ global materials division of Broadview Holding (alongside Formica, Westag, Trespa, Arpa and Homapal), and are now looking to invest towards the future. We have significant plans to accelerate our growth over the coming years domestically and internationally, in existing and new product categories, both within Direct Online Services and also in collaboration with our Group colleagues.
Our people are a key area of investment for the business, and we are now looking a buyer to join our team and support these exciting growth ambitions, and the challenges that come with a rapidly expanding multifaceted business.
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent
**Salary**: Up to £40,000.00 per year
**Benefits**:
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company events
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Gloucester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Gloucester
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