Junior Buyer

5 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Coop Full time

**Junior Buyer**
£32,000 - £40,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6A)
Manchester City Centre. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way - splitting your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)

We’re looking for a Junior Buyer to join us and develop a career with our experienced buying team. Our buying teams are responsible for providing our customers with the products that they love, and this role offers a rare opportunity for you to see the results of your hard work paying off every time you step into one of our stores and see your products on the shelves.

You’ll be working in a busy, high-profile category, where you’ll collaborate with some major branded suppliers. You’ll need to use your commercial and customer knowledge to build the customer offer, support the commercial goals, create value, and reduce costs. If you can bring us some buying experience and a passion for building your career in retail, we can offer you a chance to develop your skills in a business that puts people right at the heart of everything we do.

**What you’ll do**
- Take full responsibility for managing and developing your section within one of our trading categories
- Source products from major brands in the UK and around the world, as well as own brand products, and work closely with our product developers, supply chain and technical teams
- Work towards targets and sales deliverables, contributing to the team’s turnover targets
- Lead supplier negotiations, benefitting the business and our customers
- Represent the business in supplier meetings and visits
- Build strong productive relationships with suppliers and a variety of internal colleagues
- Maintain ethical and sustainable standards and ways of doing business
- Be innovative and creative with new ideas and ways of working

**This role would suit people who have**
- Experience of working in a commercial function
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- An ability to build relationships with suppliers and internal colleagues at all levels of the business
- Commercial awareness and a talent for spotting new opportunities

**Why Co-op?**

If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:

- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- YuLife - an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

**Building an inclusive work environment**

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.


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