Buyer

SUMMARY:
BUYER – BRYANSTON
(Home 90% / HO/suppliers 10% - The role will be primarily working from home, with a requirement to attend relevant meetings and attend the offices on occasion)

POSITION INFO:
JOB SPECIFICATION:
The principle objective of the role is to own the delivery of the food, drink and boutique items for the company. Food and drink in the country of employment and boutique across the client’s global portfolio.
 
Main Responsibilities:

• Work with Head of Buying & NPD to input into and deliver the future vision for buying and represent the company in all aspects of the buying journey
• Own and develop the product buying strategy for specific categories of ownership
• Support Head of Buying & NPD in building policies and procedures for buying and systems
• Contribute to weekly team alignment meetings ensuring timelines for key accountabilities are achieved
• Conduct regular trade analysis to ensure sales and profitability targets are achieved and clear actions defined
• Input into Range plans for all relevant categories of ownership, ensuring KPI roll ups are achieving targets
• Continually review the market and product opportunities to ensure market leading and always have the next best thing ready to factor into launch programme
• Outline and propose range frameworks for each category, aligning to correct sales mix and customer demographic
• Own key supplier relationship ensuring commercial terms are agreed up front to enhance profitability and trading agreements
• Liaise with Technical Manager to ensure Health and Safety requirements are adhered to for all products
• Leading, manage and develop Junior Buyer line report (if in reporting line)
• Create training packages and carry out reviews with Junior Buyer (if in reporting line)
• Work cross functionally with all other stakeholders to ensure range change process and other initiatives run seamlessly

• Degree educated or equivalent experience
• Food Safety certification a desirable
• Management training required

• At least 3years’ experience in a Buyer role required
• Continuous Improvement Experience required
• Travel Retail experience desirable but not essential
• Ambient food/drink knowledge desirable
• Airline experience desirable but not essential

• Strong people management skills
• Strong business communication verbal and written
• Sound knowledge of buying best practice
• An ability to read and understand legal agreements
• Robust financial and analytical & methodical
• IT Skilled across Microsoft Platforms or similar, WMS and or similar management platforms
• Trustworthy
• Strong knowledge of warehouse Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Flexibility and responsiveness to change with the ability to guide others in challenging environments
• Expertise in managing suppliers and best practices
• Proven ability to implement process improvement initiatives
• Experienced in front face customer experience
• Able to guide and mentor individuals, resolve conflict
• Ability to managing and developing junior buyers
• Ability to create training packages and carry out reviews with Junior Buyers

• Analytical & methodical – logical thinker
• Attention to detail
• Creative problem solver
• Delivery orientated self-starter
• Factual reasoning and problem solving
• Precise & disciplined
• Structured worker
• Proactive and forward thinking
• Problem solver & innovative

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Comfortable delivering frequent direct written and oral feedback
• Hard working, tenacious and committed to deliver        
• Positive & can-do attitude
• Well-developed time management skills
• Able to work independently with limited instruction and supervision
• Able to work effectively in a team
• Effective communicator & networker
• Adaptable to change
• Ethical and honest
• Calm and able to respond quickly to unplanned events
• Ability to cope with and handle variable workload, which can be heavy at times