Category Buyer

**Category Buyer**

**£45,000 - £50,000**

**Monday to Friday (40 hour week)**

**Remote**

Grafton UK are recruiting exclusively for a growing retailer to source an experienced Category Specialist to have a full responsibility for all category management activity to drive online sales across the complete assortment portfolio.

In this challenging role, you liaise with vendors establishing long term strategy for the product assortment including but not limited to product recommendations, category page details such as product guides, product content improvement, cross sell and upsellopportunities as well as switch and save which will lead to improving key online KPIs.

To be considered for the role, you will ideally have some experience in a Category Management role and good knowledge of Mother & Baby Products.

List of responsibilities of the successful Category Buyer:

- Maintaining the product portfolio on the UK market; contracting of suppliers; specifying the conditions for procurement and ensuring the listing of products in relevant sales channels; maintaining the necessary coordination among all relevant parties
- Searching for new sales channels suitable to UK operations, and realisation of new sales channels according to the growth strategy
- Monitoring of supply chain operations within the UK (3PL) together with the Overseas Supply Chain Operations Manager in Turkey; keeping track of stock and sales reports, following up and trying to diminish relevant supply chain costs
- Ensuring along with partners in Turkey that product images, content, price, campaign price, and stock information are sent to sales channels correctly, and checking them regularly on relevant IT systems
- Preparation of campaign designs to be used in the UK market (together with the company's Turkey Marketing team) and monitoring of its implementation; conducting necessary collaboration to boost sales on existing platforms.
- To be the first point of contact for the company's goods and services providers in the UK, and sustaining the relations on behalf of the business.
- Supporting the import processes of the goods to be sold in the UK.
- On-site support of the UK growth operations and taking an active part in the realisation of expansion projects.
- Playing an active role to create and implement the pricing strategy of the UK products including private label branded product positioning and finding the sweet spot for all listed products

Requirements for the Category Buyer:

- Strong demonstrable success in category management in mother & baby products
- Track record of building strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and 3rd party organisations.
- Pricing, Promotion and Revenue Management Experience
- Omnichannel Category Management
- FMCG Sales and Trade Marketing Experiences highly desirable
- Sales and Operations Planning experience
- Experience of all aspects of category management, purchasing and negotiation
- Respectful, self-confident, and strong character with a hands-on approach to all tasks
- Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently and economically
- Flexible approach to prioritisation and a team player
- Strong organisational ability and detailed
- Dynamic, energetic, and positive minded character
- Innovative and creative, with a logical and methodical approach to problem solving.
- Articulate, with excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility to travel abroad on a quarterly basis

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