Buying Manager - Easter and Halloween Confectionery

Tesco UK; Digswell; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Stores Limited seeks a Buying Manager for Easter and Halloween confectionery to source and buy quality products and lead a team of Assistant Buyers and Trainee Buyers. You will develop long-term customer-led plans, use insights to drive category strategy, and build strong supplier relationships to deliver market-leading plans and KPI targets.

You will negotiate costs, manage promotions, and ensure compliance with all Tesco policies and GSCOP, while contributing to growth and profitability.

Qualifications

• Commercial buying experience required.
• Influencing and negotiation skills essential.
• Strong stakeholder management能力.
• Range and trade planning experience.
• Supplier management能力.
• Experience leading and developing teams.
• Proven buying management experience.
• Proficient in report preparation and analysis.
• Data analysis skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel.
• Understanding supplier economics.

Responsibilities

• Source and buy high-quality confectionery to deliver best offers, range and prices.
• Lead and develop a team of Assistant Buyers and Trainee Buyers.
• Create a long-term, customer-led plan for the buying area.
• Use insight tools to analyze performance and develop category strategy.
• Build and manage supplier relationships to deliver market-leading plans.
• Support department range strategy and deliver KPI targets.
• Negotiate with suppliers to optimize costs and investments.
• Ensure compliance with Tesco policies, GSCOP and training.
• Record agreements in writing and report GSCOP issues to Legal within 48 hours.
• Follow Tesco's Business Code of Conduct and maintain integrity.

Skills

Influencing

Negotiation

Stakeholder mgmt

Range planning

Supplier management

Team leadership

Buying management

Report analysis

Data analysis

Excel

Supplier economics

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

We are on the lookout for a Buying Manager - Easter and Halloween confectionary to join our team here are Tesco. You will source and buy great quality products, giving our customers the best offer, range and prices available. You will lead and develop my team of Assistant Buyers and Trainee Buyers.

• Ensuring my buying area has a long term customer led plan, which drives customer loyalty.
• I use insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities. I develop plans to deliver category strategy.
• Supporting my departments range strategy to implement a customer focused range which delivers financial KPIs.
• Source innovative product to deliver insight led ranges across channels, regions & affluence levels to support the category strategy.
• Build & manage supplier relationships through a supplier strategy to develop a market leading buy, move and sell plan aligned to the customer plan and category strategy. Identifying and assessing new suppliers to deliver market leading product innovation.
• Supporting my department’s sell plan to deliver trade, promotions, events exceeding KPI forecasts and drive footfall.
• Delivering my team’s sales and quantum profit budget, market share and out-performance targets. Negotiate with supplier partners to deliver market leading product costs and investment in-line with Tesco Buying model.
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all my training so that I have zero GSCOP breaches.
• Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt, and leading a culture of compliance within my team.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

• Influencing and negotiation.
• Commercial buying experience.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Range and trade planning.
• Supplier Management.
• Leading and developing teams.
• Buying management.
• Report preparation and analysis.
• Data Analysis.
• Microsoft Excel.
• Supplier economics.

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