Optical Products Procurement Expert

2 weeks ago


Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Boots Full time

About the Role

Boots Opticians is seeking a skilled Buyer to join our Commercial team as maternity cover for a Buyer of contact lenses. In this role, you will work within the Contact Lens Category team to support and devise trading plans for the category, including ongoing development of our customer proposition, support store implementation plans, and finding additional margin opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work cross-functionally to develop and deliver a compelling strategy that retains our market-leading position.
  • Range Management – you will have to understand and analyze range performance, recommending improvements and seeking solutions.
  • You will be a category expert – you will have to understand our categories and markets by ongoing research and analysis of Supplier, Customer, Competitor, as well as our internal performance in order to make the best deals possible.
  • Price and Promotion Management – you will have to understand the category pricing strategy, what the competitor activity is, the product pricing dynamics (elasticity) and hierarchies within your business.
  • Be the first point of contact for suppliers and manage the day-to-day relationships; assist Buying Manager to negotiate price deals with our partners.

Requirements

  • You are an excellent communicator who can easily build a range of effective working relationships both internally as well as externally.
  • You have strong analytical skills and you are great using data to make recommendations and commercial decisions.
  • You are a highly organized person who can work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
  • Contact lens product knowledge is an essential element of the role as it will help you align product specifications to customer needs.
  • You are commercially astute and continually seek to make improvements.

About Us

The Opticians Support team continually improves processes to make a difference to our patients and customers. We support and implement systems across the business, building great relationships with our Opticians to ensure they can meet the ever-changing needs of our patients and customers. You will provide world-class support and knowledge.

In return, we will build a personal development plan with you that helps you develop and further your career.

Our Benefits

  • Boots Retirement Savings Plan
  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Generous employee discounts
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
  • Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes, and more.
  • Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.


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