Buying Manager

**Responsibilities**: - Ensuring that buying area has a long term customer-led plan, which drives customer loyalty. Ability to use insight tools to analyze and understand performance issues and opportunities. Developing plans to deliver category strategy. - Supporting range strategy to implement a customer-focused range that delivers financial KPIs. Sourcing innovative products to deliver insight-led ranges across channels, regions and affluence levels to support the category strategy. - Building and managing supplier relationships through a supplier strategy to develop a market-leading buy, move and sell plan aligned to the customer plan and category strategy. Identifying and assessing new suppliers to deliver market-leading product innovation as well as building long term supplier partnerships. - Supporting the departments sell plan to deliver trade, promotions, events exceeding KPI forecasts and drive footfall. - Working with suppliers and quality teams to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained. Supporting the departments sell plan to deliver trade, promotions, events exceeding KPI forecasts and drive footfall - Forecast and manage my budgets effectively. Delivering my teams sales and quantum profit budget, market share and out-performance targets. Negotiate with supplier partners to deliver market-leading product costs and investment in line with Buying model. - Conducting regular store/website visits to understand how ranges have landed either in-store or online, keeping abreast of competitor and category developments to inform future range development. - Working best with cross-function e.g. Supply chain/ SRD/ Support Office/ Operations/ Finance as a team. **Qualification**: - Bachelors degree or higher in any related fields. - A minimum of 5 years in the commercial buying experience. - Having direct experience in Grocery or Packaged Food would be preferable. - Strong data analysis skills. Proficient in Microsoft Excel.