Junior Buyer

**Job Title**: Junior Buyer

**Employment type**:Permanent - Full Time

**Location**:Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

**City/Town**: Fenton

**Postcode**:ST4 2FL

**Salary**: Competitive

**_We have a fantastic opportunity for a Junior Buyer to join our Trading team to help develop and drive category plans which will deliver sales growth whilst meeting company and franchisee profitability targets, while working closely with a category Buying._**

**Your main responsibilities**
- Develop and deliver an effective category management plan that delivers all key targets including sales, category growth, and agreed margin requirements for both wholesale and retail
- Develop, implement, and maintain all company ways of working including following pricing and promotional strategies in line with company strategies
- Collaborate with store planning to ensure effective range management and innovation reflecting market and consumer trends
- Build strong working relationships with suppliers, demonstrating versatility in negotiating style and the ability to construct joint business plans
- Monitor all category and supplier performance, understand customer and consumer responses
- Support the Brand Support team to enable them with the necessary tools and information to execute the offer to a high standard
- Work in partnership with the Marketing team to develop forward promotional strategies

**About you**
- Ability to communicate confidently at all levels
- Attention to detail
- Ability to manage and understand data
- Strong IT skills in all Microsoft Applications
- Proactive and self-motivated as well as the ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to build positive customer and supplier relationships
- Tenacious and able to confidently negotiate
- Passionate about products and able to take pride in their work
- Experience within a FMCG category (grocery, impulse, beers, wines or spirits)

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