Buying Manager

4 weeks ago

Bradford, United Kingdom WM Morrisons Full time

**About The Role**

We’re looking for someone to join the wholesale team as a Buying Manager, Convenience at Hilmore House in Bradford, on a full-time permanent basis. This role will involve working your full time hours over 4 days a week. This is a fantastic opportunity tojoin the growing wholesale business.

The role will develop an understanding and expertise about a category of products and be the driver of sales providing convenience wholesale customers with products that they want to buy; which in turn will drive profits, margin and market share for next12 months. The role will develop customer and supplier relationships and work collaboratively with key stakeholders to resolve all issues efficiently and effectively.

**You'll be responsible for things like this in the role;**
- Understanding opportunities for sales and margin for your category of products, being able to articulate this in a plan with targets, for the next 12 months
- Proposing what products to sell, across your range, including defining how they are sourced and the key promotional activity
- Providing the support and product expertise, including production process, packaging and product ingredients for your given category to meet the Morrisons strategy
- Ensure the products you sell are charged to the customer correctly
- Be the central cog in a virtual team that includes account management, Supply Chain, Technical, Merchandising, Pricing and Finance, to define and deliver the business plan and to drive the sales and margin
- As the product expert, advising other Morrisons colleagues and suppliers to develop ranges and products to suit customer needs including own label
- Working in collaboration with business colleagues to manage stock, availability, waste/shrink and markdowns for all the products
- Manage availability of products through appropriate channels such as communication to supply chain, logistics and any other relevant departments and working with suppliers in the right way
- Ensuring that products complies with company policy and external legal requirements in relation to trading and product quality
- Give ongoing consideration to productivity savings at every point in the way that we range products and the way we distribute products to customers
- Negotiating with suppliers to optimise trade plan activation and value (including sales, margin and media income) and operational efficiencies around product sourcing, supply, availability for the appropriate time
- Setting exact product price
- Working with the Account Managers, Finance, and Pricing etc. to develop a business plan for the next 12 months. Monitoring and evaluating performance against budget / forecast, including sales volume, value, cash and profits

**About You**

**You’ll need skills and experience like this to be a success**:

- Experience in trading or buying or commercial or national accounts in a food retail or food wholesale environment
- Product Knowledge - the ability to be considered the business expert in your area and demonstrate a passion for product quality and provenance
- The ability to seek customer perceptions and motivations to inform and drive improvements, and translate these into sales and margin for Morrisons
- Ability to interpret the market and make recommendations to maximise sales margin
- The ability be the "central cog" to influence with effective interpersonal skills, other teams, such as Category Business Units, Account Managers, Supply, Pricing to drive delivery of your annual plan
- The ability to gain and integrate feedback from colleagues and customers to maximise sales and margin
- The ability to contribute toward and execute and deliver an annual plan
- An ability to negotiate with stakeholders
- A track record of project managing and driving the benefits from an annual plan
- An ability to trade within the constraints of trading standards and legal compliance
- The ability to use financial analysis and customer data to deliver business plans, which delivers increased sales and profit.

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