One Stop Buying Manager Chilled Foods

One Stop; Clayhanger; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A grocery retail company in the UK is seeking a Buying Manager for Chilled Foods Dairy and Bakery. This role involves leading strategy, managing supplier relationships, and driving sales and profits while ensuring product availability. The ideal candidate will possess strong negotiation skills, commercial awareness, and a customer-focused approach. This is a dynamic opportunity within a fast-paced retail environment.

Qualifications

• Strong negotiation skills essential for supplier relationships.
• Experience in line management and team development required.
• Analytical skills needed to understand market conditions.

Responsibilities

• Create strategic plans for customer satisfaction.
• Drive sales and profit according to budgets.
• Manage supplier relationships and negotiate buy/sell plans.
• Ensure product availability and market competitiveness.
• Lead team development and champion continuous improvement.

Skills

Strong negotiation skills

Commercial awareness

Customer focused

Analytical skills

Line Manager experience

Understand market conditions & future trends

Able to be pro-active & Reactive

Self motivated with endless enthusiasm & passion

Strong communication skills

Good MS office skills

Job description

Join One Stop as a Buying Manager for Chilled Foods Dairy and Bakery, where you'll lead the strategy for chilled foods, dairy and Bakery categories. This dynamic role focuses on delivering great value and exciting products for customers, while simplifying store operations. You'll work closely with suppliers and partners like Tesco and Booker to drive performance, launch new products, and ensure strong availability across our chilled ranges

About the role

As Buying Manager you’ll lead the strategy to deliver great value and exciting products for customers while making things simpler for stores. You’ll manage supplier relationships, drive sales and profit across seasonal and everyday ranges, and bring new products to market. Working closely with Tesco, Booker, and supply chain teams, you’ll ensure strong availability, reduce waste, and keep our pricing competitive. You’ll also support team development and champion continuous improvement across all areas of buying.

One Stop – Buying Manager for Chilled Foods Dairy & Bakery

You will be responsible for:

• Creating a strategic plan to deliver better for customers and simpler for stores
• Deliver sales, volume & profit in line with budgets
• Build, Negotiate and Agree buy/sell plans with suppliers to support delivery of budgets
• Work cross functionally across the business including Tesco & Booker and build strong relationships
• Work with supply chain to deliver best route to market, improve availability, reduce waste and understand MOQ impacts.
• Understand market competition and identify new opportunities
• Create a promotional plan that is best in class and helps drive market outperformance
• Strive to be 1st in market in delivering NPD and initiatives.
• Consistently improve our range to our customers needs.
• Ensure the price basket is managed so we are competitive in the market whilst delivering the margin.
• Communicate price and promotions through an agreed marketing plan.
• Work with suppliers to deliver new initiatives that have cost benefits for One Stop.
• Liaise with suppliers to ensure they fully understand our ways of working so any processes put in place comply with company principles.
• Work to ensure that all initiatives are right for stores and build a plan and process that is simple to execute.
• Look at root cause of problems and offer solutions.
• Ask for and action feedback.
• Plan and review my work to meet my objectives.
• Have a personal development plan for my behavioural and technical needs.
• Manage & conduct work activities in such a way as to ensure the safety, health & welfare at work of all colleagues & customers
• I manage and help support development of a Direct report buying MFPE & Produce

Skills I need:

• Strong negotiation skills
• Commercial awareness
• Customer focused
• Analytical skills
• Line Manger experience
• Understand market conditions & future trends
• Able to be pro-active & Re-active
• Self motivated with endless enthusiasm & passion
• Strong communication skills
• Good MS office skills