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**Key Responsibilities**:

- Influencing effective sourcing strategies to achieve excellent support on delivery and order fulfilment and competitive pricing.
- Ensuring the buying team hit buying targets in line with the company budget
- Managing the buying team to meet team objectives including performance management
- Cultivating relationships and partner with suppliers, adapting negotiation strategies to suit their ways of working.
- Leading negotiation conversations to ensure competitive prices for items and efficient delivery.
- Overseeing the monitoring of shipments, deliveries, chasing suppliers to ensure timely receipt
- Supervising stock levels within the business and identifying the need for replenishment
- Conducting weekly sales analysis to deliver buying proposals for the business
- Leading buying meetings with UK and overseas suppliers to negotiate prices
- Budgetary oversight and responsibility for purchasing and identifying potential cash flow issues
- Independently identify and act upon stocklists and offers
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of fragrance supply chain
- Build relationships with other departments to ensure constant communication and efficiency
- Be proactive in managing own development - identifying potential areas for improvement and seeking the necessary tools to maximise learning potential

**We would love to meet someone with**:

- Exceptional negotiation skills
- Good analytical skills to make informed decisions
- Proactive approach to work
- Good problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build rapport
- High levels of attention to detail

**Technical skills**:

- The ability to manage multiple tasks and work to tight deadlines
- Knowledge of and/or a keen interest in the fragrance industry
- Strong Microsoft Office skills
- 3-5 years' experience in a buying role
- A procurement qualification is desirable
- Ideally having global purchasing experience
- Experience of assessing, developing and managing suppliers

**Benefits**:

- 22 days' holiday allowance that increases annually with service
- Birthday as an additional day off
- Pension scheme
- Free parking
- Employee discounts on products
- Free snacks and drinks
- Flexible working
- WFH 2 days a week
- Commission pay

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- On-site parking
- Work from home