L5 Buyer

**At a Glance**

**Contract Type**: 1 Permanent head and 1 12 months fixed term contract

**Location**:Bracknell based with hybrid working

**Salary Range**:£53,700.00 - £83,500.00 per annum

**Partnership Level**: 5

We will be holding an in-person assessment centre for this role at our Bracknell Head Office on Thursday 21st March.

**About the role**

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Waitrose Trading team as a Buyer.

This role would suit someone who is self motivated, with an ability to influence internal stakeholders and inspire our suppliers to invest in Waitrose.

This would be Ideal for a confident, assertive person, with good communication and numerical skills. The ability to work in a matrix way across the boundaries of hard line reporting is crucial. Creativity and a passion for products are also desirable.

**As a Buyer for Waitrose & Partners (Level 5), you will be**:

- Working in a Category Pod, consisting of but not limited to Buyer, Merchandiser, Supply Planners, Technologist, Product Developer, deliver shared KPIs for the pod through collaborative working.
- Support Category Pod to deliver individual accountabilities (Indirect Shared KPIs)
- Upskill and develop buying skills of the buying community through peer to peer coaching and mentoring,sharing best practice to facilitate cross pollination between Category Pods.
- Facilitate horizontal working across Category Pods
- Deputising for Trading Manager
- Support the Trading Manager with key work streams and deputise where necessary to enable teams to deliver their category plans

**Essential Skills**
- Commercial experience at Buyer equivalent delivering strong results.
- Experience of communicating at all levels of the business and/or worked in other directorates at equivalent level of commercial experience/exposure.
- Training in negotiation skills (e.g. GAP) and understanding of industry compliance (GSCOP & Competition Law)
- Data based decision making experience
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Effective performance management skills
- Experience of working together across boundaries
- Ability to empower others
- Collaborative

**Benefits of the Partnership and the role**:

- ** ️ - Full - time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays**-**:

- Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy**- **Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not**- **You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete probation. That’s 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners. You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount**- **Simple cycle to work support scheme**- **We’re really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain’s most beautiful areas and once you’ve been with us for three months, you’re welcome to explore them**

**Next Steps**
- ** You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.**
- ** Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining JLP.**

**You can view a copy of the full job outline here (internal only)**

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