Senior Category Buyer

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom iD Mobile Limited Full time
Job Title: Senior Category Buyer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Category Buyer to join our commercial team. As a Senior Category Buyer, you will be responsible for managing high-turnover, complex categories, leading a team of direct reports, and developing strong relationships with our supplier partners.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage all category supplier relationships in line with our overall commercial supplier strategy and category strategy
  • Harness credible relationships with our suppliers and develop a sourcing strategy to bring customers the best ranges, supported with availability, while minimizing our NET cost of goods
  • Work with suppliers to develop a strong understanding of the future technology roadmap, enabling the category to plan ahead for likely changes in customer trends and demand
  • Negotiate product ranges, cost pricing, additional terms, exclusivity, distribution, and stock availability
  • Negotiate additional fixed and variable financial terms related to ranging, activity, and performance, maximizing EBIT across the category
  • Pricing the product range in line with agreed category CPI targets
  • Work with merchandising to ensure that we are forecasting at the right level to maximize sales and stock turn
  • Provide and regularly review team members' objectives, priorities, and performance via Personal Development Review and one-to-ones, supporting their professional and personal development, ensuring that the right talent plans are in place to support the talent pipeline for the business
  • Joint ownership of trading the SIM Free category through all relevant channels, writing the trading strategy, building and delivering sales, margin, and market share budgets, and operating as a conduit between suppliers and our Pay Monthly category team to support in delivering their strategy and budgets
Requirements:
  • Substantial buying experience working within a FMCG/Fashion or Hard Goods fast-paced retailer
  • Strong negotiation skills and ability to manage all supplier partnerships at differing levels of seniority
  • Customer champion with excellent commercial awareness and understanding of customer needs
  • Working knowledge of SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Management/leadership experience of more than 1 direct report
What We Offer:
  • Fantastic colleague discounts with Currys and iD Mobile
  • Private medical insurance
  • Access to discretionary company bonus scheme
  • Life Assurance

We are committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance, please email us and we'll do our best to help.

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