Job Reference: BBBH43667
Job Duration:
Start date: ASAP
Description:
Job Purpose: Ongoing category management in relation to purchasing, pricing and promotion of products to drive category sales, optimise and grow margin and to maximise income, all delivered through building and maintaining strong relationships, with astrong bias towards customer satisfaction.
Key responsibilities
* Ownership for the end-to-end journey of the product tomeet customer needs in terms of choice, price, and innovation and to ensure profitability, specifically to deliver budgeted gross and net sales and margin £ and gross margin % for the category.
* Deliver stock budgets and proactively work to reduce agedstock.
* Create and maintain category and subcategory range plans to include forecast and financial data to meet customer andbusiness requirements.
* Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of the market, supplier base, competitors and changing customer requirements for all products/services within the category.
* Build, manage and maintain supplier relationships toenable the measurement of supplier performance to ensure quality, cost and delivery performance is maintained at high levels tomaximise category profitability.
* Analyse category performance, customer data / insight and market trends to plan and implement ongoing range reviews to drive sales and profit.
* Understand and apply tools and techniques to close cost gaps and achievevalue for money whilst maintaining excellent supplier relationships.
* Identify supplier risk and develop robust risk mitigation strategies where necessary.
* Ensure products meet technical specifications, specifically in relation to drop tests, packaging requirements and products checks.
* Confidently enter total cost and contractual negotiations with current and potentialsuppliers, specifically negotiate terms, rebates, flexipay contributions and all product pricing.
* Manage and supply forecastpricing information for the relevant category for the annual budget and financial reporting periods as required.
* Oversee and manage, in conjunction with Logistics, supply chain delivery issues to ensure timely product delivery.
* Maintain a highly competent team by recruiting, inducting, coaching, and developing employees.
* Responsible for the development of all employeeswithin the team including identifying development gaps and working with the Department Manager and the HR department to definemethods to fulfil the training needs
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience:
* CIPS qualified (preferred)
*Experience within a retail environment including a proven track record of being in a buying position.
* In-depth knowledge ofthe industry, being aware of industry Brand contacts would be desirable
* In depth knowledge of contract negotiations and experience of trading complexities associated with branded merchandise.
* Experience of managing a team
* Identify issues and develop solutions in order to meet sales, profit and budgetary targets.
* Excellent organisational and analytical skills
Industry: Purchasing and Procurement
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum
Salary Benefits:
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Job Skills: -
Contact Name: Katie Wrighton
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