Buyer - Snacks

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**“Everything about Asda”**

We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

**“Everything you'll love ”**
- **Hybrid and flexible working** - everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point.
- **Discretionary bonus** - Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts
- **Company matched pension** - Looking forward to the future
- **25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays** - Making sure you take time for your self and switch off
- **13 paydays a year** - who doesn't love an extra payday?
- **Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions** - Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us
- **Discount off your shopping at Asda and George** - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year
- **Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes** - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)
- **Free city centre parking** - you can also use it outside working hours

Plus much more

**_ “That's more like it”_**

**“Find your role”**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Buyer to join our team This role sits within the high growth Grocery category and you will be tasked with a diverse and challenging product portfolio across Snacks. This role represents a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to food commercial teams and to engage colleagues across the business to land an integrated, best in class customer offer.

As a Buyer within Snacks, you will work collaboratively with key suppliers and with internal stakeholders alike in order to deliver sales, pricing and growth ahead of the market while helping to manage the category P&L.

You will negotiate and deliver business plans as well as understand customers and implement strategies that meets their needs.

You will also need to understand, track & negotiate around key commodities and deliver cost to serve programmes with suppliers to ensure great value for our customers.

“**Let's find out about you”**

Previous experience working as a Buying Assistant or a Buyer.

Strong commercial awareness and being highly numerate

A strong understanding of customer requirements, market trends and competitors
- “_**_Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach._**

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.