Buyer - Household, Baby & Pet - London, United Kingdom - Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Sainsbury's Trading team as a Senior Buyer for Pet Food.

Working alongside the existing Pet Buyers in one of the fastest growing categories in grocery, we are expanding the team to ensure we capture this opportunity and build on the excellent performance we've delivered so far.

This is a large and high profile buying area, with a diverse set of branded and own brand products and suppliers.

As well as optimising the sourcing and selling strategy of the category, you will shape and deliver exciting projects. This includes defining the longer term strategy of Premium Pet & Future Pet Propositions. Reporting in to the Head of Buying, you will work with a wide cross functional team.

This is an exciting time for the category and a great role in the heart of our Household, Baby & Pet Category and the wider Grocery Business Unit.

As a Buyer you'll:

Know and understand the relevant retail market and the category performance.
Develop and execute a customer centric price and promotional plan in line with corporate strategy.
Through brilliant supplier relationship management and understanding of the end to end supply chain, identify and negotiate cost savings.
Make decisions for both the Buying Strategy (range and supplier strategy) and Selling Strategy (price and promotions)
Scope, manage and lead relevant cross functional projects within the buying area through to landing.
Work effectively with the range analysts to build a product range architecture that delivers a marketleading commercial advantage.
Work effectively with Supply Chain and retail teams to deliver strong availability for customers.
Work effectively with the Sainsbury's brand team to deliver best in class innovation and commercially favourable product development.
Influence key stakeholders across the business to gain engagement and commitment to buying area plans.
Deliver to business targets on sales, profit, value and range
Be supported in your development by on and off the job training, and encouraged to be an active leader across the division

Our Buying Team would love to see:

Demonstrable buying experience
Knowledge, understanding and management of contracts with suppliers
Knowledge of buying systems and processes
Strong commercial acumen
Ability to analyse problems and make effective decisions
Clear and effective communication to explain complex information clearly (written and verbal)
Ability to adapt and flex your communication style to engage and inspire confidence
Brilliant prioritisation and organisation
Ability to spot issues, plan to mitigate risk
Experience to lead relevant cross functional projects through to delivery
High levels of resilience

Why Sainsbury's?

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role.

We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

Job ID: 218642

Job Category:
Food Commercial(Including Sustainability, Supply chain and Buying)

Posting Date: 01/25/2024

Closing Date: 02/01/2024

Full Time or Part Time:
Full time

Locations:
Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, London, Greater London, EC1N 2HT, GB- Contract Type- : Permanent Advertised Salary- : Competitive Plus Benefits