Retail Buyer

**About the Role**:
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work with suppliers and internal team to ensure stock reordering is in line with demand, optimising quality and availability while managing waste/overstocking
- Analyse weekly sales data to review product and category performance and make decisions to remerchandise, promote or delist products
- Take ownership of category sales performance and work collaboratively with shop floor team to identify opportunities to improve and deliver against weekly KPIs
- Constantly review cost pricing from suppliers and alternative suppliers and negotiate to ensure we're buying for the best price
- Work closely with key suppliers to design price promotions, introductory and loyalty offers, tastings, events, and merchandising displays that boost sales while maintaining margins
- Using sales data, market research, and competitor analysis conduct range reviews and curate exceptional product ranges tailored to our target customers, seasonality, and brand
- Find and explore new suppliers and products to add quality and appeal to our ranges for our customers in line with our brand strategy
- Work with internal teams and external suppliers to develop innovative new home made and own label ranges
- Work collaboratively with marketing and retail teams to maximise the success of promotional activity and new product launches through impactful instore merchandising and online customer communications

**Skills & Experience**:

- Experience of Retail Buying or Category Management, preferably in chilled and speciality foods
- Excellent relationship-building ability both with suppliers and internal teams with good negotiation and influencing skills
- Strong communication and time management skills
- Appreciation and understanding of maintaining brand values and quality
- Good understanding of consumer trends in fresh food retail and speciality food sector
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills with proven ability to find trends and patterns from reports, experience with EPOS and stock management software ideal
- Ability to cope with the pressure of fast-paced and changeable working environment while meeting targets and deadlines
- Experience working in independent businesses ideal
- Microsoft Office proficient, especially Excel

**Working Hours**: 5 days per week, 45hrs per week, Monday-Friday

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to Commute:

- Market Harborough, Leicestershire (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Market Harborough, Leicestershire: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: DM