Buyer (Home Theatre Kit)

Dixons Carphone; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading electronics retailer is looking for a Buyer to join their Home Audio Squad in Greater London. The ideal candidate has experience at Buyer level or as a Junior Buyer, with strong supplier negotiation skills and commercial awareness. Responsibilities include establishing relationships with global brands, collaborating with merchandising teams, and developing marketing plans. This position offers benefits like 25 days of annual leave, private medical insurance, and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

25 days of annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Colleague discounts

Hybrid working

Qualifications

• Experience at Buyer level or as an established Junior Buyer.
• Good commercial awareness and understanding of customer needs.
• Strong negotiation skills and decision-making capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Establish relationships with global brands for optimal range and delivery.
• Collaborate with merchandising team to meet sales and stock metrics.
• Develop marketing plans to secure supplier investment.

Skills

Supplier negotiations

Commercial awareness

Numerical skills

Decision-making skills

Negotiation skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Tools

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Currys London Campus at Waterloo
Fixed Term Contract - 12 months
Full Time
Grade 4

As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues.

Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Buyer to join our Home Audio Squad. We are looking for you if you are creative, dynamic and have a passion for retail buying. Working within one of our Commercial Category Squads, means working in a tight knitted team. You will develop and implement the category plan to deliver the sales, margin and stock budgets.

You’ll be working cross functionally within the Home Audio squad to develop and deliver the right ranges and promotional strategy for our customers, being obsessive to improve the customer shopping experience at every opportunity to help continue to grow our leading market share position. The department is fast paced and dynamic, and a great balance between sourcing and engaging with world leading brands. Reporting into a Senior Buyer, you will also work closely with admin support creating an inclusive environment for the team to excel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish credible relationships with our global brands to ensure the best range, costs, supply and delivery for our customers
• Ensure that the category is always striving for a market leading range
• Work collaboratively with the merchandising team to ensure all metrics are hit across sales and stock
• Work cross functionally with the GTM team to develop innovative marketing plans to secure supplier investment to educate our customers about amazing tech
• Contribute to projects within the Commercial team and the wider CurrysGroup

You will have:

• Experience at Buyer level or be an established Junior Buyer, with knowledge and experience of supplier negotiations and supplier relationship management
• Good commercial awareness and understanding of customer needs
• Good numerical and analytical skills. Capable of monitoring market changes, competitor prices and products, and past sales patterns to forecast demand
• Strong decision-making skills to enable the right actions for the category
• Strong negotiation skills are essential, you will need to be extremely organised to manage the complexities of large box logistics
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of presenting within senior forums
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office, in particular Excel and PowerPoint

Benefits:

• 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holiday entitlement) and a competitive pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Fantastic colleague discounts on Tech with Currys and iD Mobile
• Hybrid working (with an expectation to meet in person 2-4 times per month)

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [e-mail] and we'll do our best to help.