Role

and Responsibilities:

  • Place appropriate orders to ensure product availability which meets external and internal demands

  • Effectively manage relationships with existing, new and potential suppliers

  • Analyse data to determine industry and consumer trends

  • Oversee suppliers ensuring a solid working relationship is established to ensure you are able to influence and persuade

  • Conduct pitches and cost negotiations

  • Communicating any prices increases across the business

  • Drive innovation and new ways of working and thinking

  • Liaise with logistics supply and demand planning product development and Global supply management

  • Report and analyse trends

  • Qualifications and Education Requirements:

  • Proven experience as category buyer or similar

  • Solid knowledge of category management, marketing and sales principles

  • Customer and market focused staying close to customers, suppliers and competitors to create market leadership for the business

  • Have an analytical mind with a strategic ability and good financial awareness

  • Have an understanding of data analysis

  • Proficient in MS Office and an advanced user of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

    • Skills:

  • Passionate for results and delivery

  • Successfully Influences openly at all levels

  • Accepts responsibility for own actions

  • Ambitious high performer with excess enthusiasm, energy and resilience

  • Have a commercial outlook, exceptional communicator and influencer

  • Ability to work to time pressures in a fast moving and rapidly changing business

    • To apply please follow the link or call Georgia on for more information.

    Adecco UK are an equal opportunities employer and an Employment Agency

    Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.