Buyer - London, United Kingdom - Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer
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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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M&S Food is changing, and fast We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business.


From Percy Pig to the freshest M&S Select Farms produce, we grow, source, and develop our own products to give our customers family-ready food that's unbeatable on flavour and innovation.


We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best.

After all, this is not just foodThis is M&S Food.


Do you love M&S Food? We in the M&S Food Buying team do We are food and drink obsessed and spend our days working firstly with external raw material suppliers and manufacturers, secondly with the internal team of buyers, category product developers & technologists, along with many other partners, to deliver an exciting own-label offering that constantly delights and engages our customers.

Our working environment is very fast paced and exciting, no two days are the same.

To be part of our team you need to be passionately obsessed by manufacturing, linked to food and retail, tenacious, self-starting and a confident leader.

You'll know how to make decisions, what is commercial and how to implement change in an appropriate way.


Your role is to help M&S Food drive quality up, availability up and costs down where appropriate, deliver its strategy alongside the trading teams and be successful, so we need hard workers and big problem solvers.

We are an ambitious team, who are part of one of the biggest retail transformations in history, building a bigger, better, food business

Here at M&S we are proud to be market-leading when it comes to own-label product innovation & affordable luxury.

We are looking for a Raw Material Buyer who will continue to drive our market share and who will push the boundaries and celebrate success.


This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a truly collaborative team with ambitious growth plans and be involved in delivering both the category and supplier strategy to deliver this.

Key accountabilities and measures

  • Be the raw materials procurement lead in your given categories
  • Manage a complex portfolio of commodity areas supplied into our key manufacturers
  • Drive both inflation mitigation and lowering cost benefits as part of a team budget position
  • Ensure M&S is protected from cost and supply risks
  • Negotiate your own categories with the end user and partners in mind at all times
  • Find a balance between longer term, strategic arrangements and more transactional short term agreements.
  • Generate and land a category plan for your areas
  • Drive cost out within raw materials that maintains M&S quality expectations
  • Compliance with GSCOP guidelines at all times
You'll have a commercial outlook, with the ability to make great decisions and negotiate effectively. Using commercial and customer data you'll seize and deliver commercial opportunities. A strong communicator able to influence at all levels. You'll be comfortable working in a team and building strong relationships in both your internal and external networks.

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That's why we're revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There's never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.


We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

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