Senior Category Buyer
1 month ago
At Dixons Carphone, we're united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As a Senior Buyer, you'll be part of a fast-paced team, working closely with the Go To Market team to drive business growth and innovation.
This is a newly created position to maximise the growth opportunity in bringing new SharkNinja products to market and ensuring Currys is at the forefront of their innovation.
As a Senior Category Buyer, you'll be responsible for high-turnover, complex categories, leading an Assistant Buyer and Go To Market Manager. You'll need to have great relationship-building skills, working closely with the Go To Market team, Planning, and using your influencing skills to secure support to drive the business forward.
Commercial acumen is a must as you'll be required to support our analysis of trading performance, providing recommendations for actions to drive our business.
As a Senior Buyer, you'll be expected to support the development of the wider team, ensuring we have a capable and committed team who understand their role in delivering the company vision.
- Working closely with SharkNinja to understand their NPD roadmap and develop the right ranges and promotions to capitalise on their launches and full product ranges.
- Negotiating product ranges – cost pricing, additional terms, exclusivity, distribution, stock availability.
- Negotiating promotional funding support to drive sales while maintaining margin in line with financial objectives.
- Using customer and market data provided by the Go To Market team to ensure correct ranges and promotional plans are in place.
- Remedy all supplier issues relating to cost price, product, stock, financial claims, contractual issues, and other.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement category strategies to drive business growth and innovation.
- Lead cross-functional teams to negotiate product ranges and promotional funding support.
- Use customer and market data to inform category decisions.
- Manage supplier relationships to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of products.
Requirements:
- Substantial buying experience working within a FMCG/Fashion or Hard Goods fast-paced retailer.
- Customer champion with excellent commercial awareness.
- Good working knowledge of SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
What We Offer:
- 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holiday entitlement) and a competitive pension scheme.
- Private medical insurance.
- Life Assurance.
We're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do. If you need any additional assistance with your application, please email us and we'll do our best to help.
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