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Buying Manager Drinks and Tobacco

Employer
Michael Page Sales
Location
England, London, City of London
Salary
£60000 - £70000 per annum + bonus, car allowance, staff discounts
Closing date
24 Aug 2022

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Buying, Category Management

Job Details



This Buying Manager role will see you stepping into a senior position with complete responsibility of the Drinks & Tobacco category.

Client Details

My client is a global retail business with successful stores across the FMCG and general merchandise sector.

Description
  • Develop and lead a high-performing team - providing guidance and coaching to bring out the best in your people
  • Complete P&L ownership of the budget for your category with a focus on net profitability. Budgets for sales/contribution/margin, costs, CAPEX, income
  • Understand total business strategy & their category's role within it. Ownership of annual trade/category plan process. Full involvement in origination, trialling, and development of '3-year-plan' ideas
  • Review of longer trading outlook (6 months+), mitigation plans to hand (Plan B's), and engagement with the wider business on developing trends
  • Manage your own category pricing including the development of pricing elasticity trials where appropriate
  • Manage detailed and complex trials and trials that cross beyond your own category, be the cross-functional 'go-to' for category/department
  • Full ownership for department supplier income delivery & responsibility for reporting performance across the business. Management of month-end processes
  • Have a long-term supplier strategy in place covering annual deals, payment terms, cost prices, marketing spend, and conduct regular grow/hold/decline reviews
  • Engagement in and leadership of new store format development


Profile
  • You will have strong experience in relevant buying or commercial roles
  • A bold leader who holds the team accountable for category strategies and is passionate about delivering best-in-class results through the team
  • Understands the importance and takes a proactive approach to the development of wider trading team members
  • Takes an interest in longer-term resource management (succession planning etc.)
  • A strong role model across Commercial
  • An individual who has the ability to work cross-functionally to deliver results
  • Strong business acumen
  • Is a compelling voice of the business and category(s) externally (suppliers, landlords), and internally (stakeholders, stores)
  • Acts as part of a wider Buying Management 'team'
  • Leads and develops a positive culture


Job Offer
  • Competitive salary and car allowance
  • Annual bonus based on company and personal performance
  • Hybrid working model from home and in the office
  • 25 Days holiday, plus your Birthday off, plus Bank Holidays with an opportunity to buy extra days holiday
  • Finish at 4 pm on a Friday
  • Competitive pension contribution
  • Staff discount card for stores and online

Company

Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.

Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!

Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us

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