About the Role
We’re looking for a highly credible Buyer with strong experience of leading an FMCG retail category to join our Commercial team at Poundland. Based at our Customer Support Centre in Walsall, this is a hybrid role, offering a mix of office and home working.
As a Buyer, you’ll work closely with our Senior Buyer to deliver strong commercial performance across our Household FMCG retail category. You’ll ensure our customers can find the right products at the right price.
You will take ownership of your category, developing and delivering category strategies that drive sales, profitability, and customer satisfaction. From supplier negotiations and relationship management to sales analysis, range planning, budgeting, and critical path management, you’ll play a key role throughout the product lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Maximise the success of the category performance, driving growth, maximizing margins and ensuring availability.
- Work collaboratively with the wider commercial team, retail operations and supplier to ensure critical path deadlines are achieved.
- Identify, create, and develop new range opportunities, taking the lead on constructing a robust and successful plan.
- Seek out category range and promotional opportunities, resolve supply issues and make recommendations for action for any threats identified.
- Understand and interpret key customer insights and data to identify and react to market trends and shopping habits.
- Meet suppliers and attend trade fairs to build relationships, negotiate the cost of goods, and explore new opportunities.
- Lead the development of category strategies, including research and analysis (spend analysis, cost benchmarking, etc).
Qualifications & Experience
- Previous experience of leading an FMCG based category is preferred but not essential.
- Experience delivering strategies and plans with associated targets, KPIs and performance monitoring, together with reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
- Comfortable with being agile to changing priorities.
- Strong understanding of the sector and competitors.
- Thorough understanding of the supply chain process.
Benefits
- 10% employee discount card with increased discount events over the year.
- Extra day off on your birthday.
- 33 days holiday a year plus bank holidays.
- Single private medical cover.
- Annual bonus scheme, up to 15% of base salary.
- Car allowance of £500 per month.
- Free parking on site.
- Pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching.
- Wellbeing resources through Retail Trust partnership.
- My Staff Shop discounts and shopping vouchers.
- Early wage access up to 50% through Stream partnership.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Additional: life assurance, loyalty service awards and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity
We’re committed and proud to our inclusive culture, and that starts with the recruitment and selection process. If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please let us know on your application and we’ll make every effort to meet your needs.
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