Head of Buying

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Redefined Ltd Full time
Head of Buying | Non-Hardware, Sold With & Subscriptions

London
Currys London Campus at Waterloo (LHO002)
Permanent
Full Time
Grade 6

The Head of Category is a senior leadership role accountable for all aspects of category performance. As the business thought leader, you will galvanise your team and support functions to develop and deliver the strongest strategy and plans to maximise customer satisfaction and EBIT.

This role requires direct management of a buying team and indirect management of other areas of the business to deliver the category strategy. Our ideal candidate will have extensive management/leadership experience to drive a fully capable and committed team who understand their role in delivering the company vision.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Leading and owning development of the category strategy, in accordance with company defined guiderails for customer promises and financial deliverables.
  • Ensuring a balanced delivery of KPIs across colleague and customer satisfaction, and financial metrics.
  • Fully owning the performance of the squad, anticipating risk and opportunity, decisively resolving issues and setting a framework to enable self-sufficiency.
  • Building effective recruitment, development and succession plans to support the talent pipeline, respecting and embracing diversity within the team.

This role offers a competitive package, including 25 days of annual leave, a pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, and fantastic colleague discounts on tech with Currys and iD Mobile.

Hybrid working is available, with an expectation to meet in person 2-4 times per month. We are committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce.

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