Senior Buyer / Category Manager

Working for a successful online business and require an additional member of the team to help support the pace of growth. As a rapidly expanding business, you will be joining the team at an exciting time as we realise the potential to become a global market-leader. Recognised as an award-winning company with outstanding people and an entrepreneurial environment, the ideal candidate will enjoy the buzz of creating a market-leading business with exceptional people.

We seek the brightest and the best. Based in our Telford Head office, this is an excellent opportunity for an intelligent, analytical, hardworking, well-organised, and self-driven individual with strong negotiation skills and commercial awareness.

Can you:

Provide recommendations for category development & range innovation with the support of market and competitor trends.

Understand the customer journey: customer insight, through to communicating product benefits and reasons to believe, identifying opportunities based on key reason/s for purchase

Delivering and optimising the retail category driving revenue performance, increasing profitability and reducing cost of goods sold.

Source and meet suitable suppliers/manufacturers, including attending UK and international trade shows to drive innovation

Developing strong existing and building new supplier relationships

Collaborating with the global procurement team on new product development and leveraging group supplier agreements.

Negotiate prices, payment terms, vendor trading terms as well as other aspects of supplier account management.

Manage the product selection process, critical path, and effective communication with the merchandising team to ensure products and categories are optimally presented on our website.