Category Buyer

3 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Bestway Healthcare UK Full time
Job Title: Category Buyer

We are seeking a skilled Category Buyer to join our team at Bestway Healthcare UK. As a Category Buyer, you will be responsible for managing the budgets and growth of various categories, including Smoking Cessation, Baby, Dental, Footcare, and Toiletries.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Deliver sales, margin, and funding to meet financial objectives set in budgets and forecasts for defined categories both in-store and online.
  • Develop and deliver promotional programs for each category to maximize sales and profit in order to meet financial and volume targets.
  • Conduct comprehensive and robust range reviews on time and to budget, ensuring that range performance is continually reviewed and remedial action is taken where necessary.
  • Monitor range-level pricing to ensure all products are competitive and profit maximized within agreed pricing strategy guidelines.
  • Manage and develop supplier relationships across all categories to ensure the effective sourcing of products and to maximize supplier funding in order to achieve the budgeted supplier funding target.
  • Monitor the competition and supplier activity on a monthly basis to ensure the maximum level of market and competitor awareness to facilitate appropriate remedial action where required and identify sales and profit opportunities.
  • Take responsibility for ensuring a thorough knowledge of the market by keeping up to date with all relevant market information supplied by IRI/Kantar/Mintel etc.
  • Provide timely and accurate communication to stores and the operations team to ensure success in delivery of range reviews, promotional plans, and other category initiatives.
Key Knowledge and Skills:
  • Good knowledge of retail buying, ideally FMCG experience.
  • Proven track record in similar role.
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
  • High degree of computer literacy.
  • Strong planning and organizational skills.
  • Ability to work to time pressures in a fast-moving and rapidly changing market.
  • Good financial awareness and ability to interpret data.
  • Good interpersonal skills.


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