Permanent
Salary from £48k + Pension + PHC + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (3 days per week in the office)
Southampton, Store Support Office
We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Buying Assistant and you’ll be a big part of this.
Buyer – Core Gardening
Overview
Lead a product category, driving innovation, and delivering customer satisfaction.
Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver category strategy, aligned to department strategy.
- Lead vendor negotiations and performance review.
- Source and select products (branded and own label).
- Deliver products and vendor contributions to deliver the trading plan.
- Act as the business expert on the product category, providing insights and recommendations across functions.
- Direct and influence Kingfisher initiatives relevant to the category, ensuring alignment with group strategy.
- Collaborate closely with marketing to align category plans with promotional and customer engagement strategies.
- Support the delivery of the sustainability plan through product selection and supplier engagement.
- Manage pricing architecture / price index.
- Take actions to deliver trading performance in collaboration with merchandising.
- Collaborating with all channels to execute customer facing proposition.
- Line management as required (could be shared resource).
- Delivering key milestones in line with agreed CPA.
What We Need
Proven buying experience in retail.
- Strong negotiation and commercial skills.
- Ability to interpret customer and market insights.
- Experience managing cross-functional projects.
- Willing to travel to visit suppliers, trade fairs, stores and competitors.
What's in it for me?
As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:
- Award-winning pension scheme
- ShareSave options
- 6.6 weeks holiday
- Payroll giving
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Shopping discounts
- Colleague wellbeing benefits …and much more.
By the end of your development, you’ll have gained a professional HR qualification as well as key business and behavioural skills, which will be essential for your future success at the next level and beyond.
Equality and Inclusion
We want to ensure that all employees, future employees, and applicants to all Kingfisher companies are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.
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