Senior Buyer- FMCG

Michael Page (UK); Runcorn; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Buyer for FMCG to join their team in Runcorn. The candidate will focus on delivering sales growth, managing supplier relationships, and optimizing promotional strategies. Ideal candidates should have extensive FMCG supply chain knowledge and solid negotiation skills for supplier promotional activities.

Benefits

Hybrid Working

Free Parking

Flexible start / finish times

Discount on product

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of consumer and wholesale supply chain, ideally in FMCG.
• Experience in negotiation of supplier promotional income.
• Excellent supplier management skills with exposure to complex relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver sales, margin, and funding growth to meet financial objectives.
• Assist trading manager in delivering promotional programmes across channels.
• Monitor and propose actions on performance for strategy definition.

Skills

Negotiation Skills

Supplier Management

Financial Analysis

Knowledge of FMCG

Space Allocation Techniques

Job description

• Free Parking ; Close to transport links
• Hybrid Working

About Our Client

A great opportunity for a Senior Buyer -FMCG to join a group of companies in their Runcorn offices. The business has several different business units which trade across retail stores, ecommerce and independents. They are seeking a Buyer to support the trading team buying a range of branded & own brand products for the retail / ecommerce sales channels.

Job Description

• Deliver Sales, Margin & Funding growth for to meet financial
• objectives, to include, promotional planning, pricing, range, merchandising and supplier strategies.
• To assist the trading manager in delivering a strong and balanced promotional programme across both retail and wholesale channels , which meets and supports the overall promotional strategy; sales and profit are maximised, administration is undertaken effectively and accurately, full promotional analysis is undertaken and informs future decisions & quarterly promotional plan by category is created and worked towards.
• To ensure KPI 's are in line with budget and address any variances.
• To monitor, report and propose actions on performance, in order to help define Strategy.
• To deliver appropriate service levels to all internal customers ensuring all
• deadlines & agreed actions across PST, Operations, Supply Chain, Space
• Planning, Marketing, Finance & Communications teams are met in full and on time.
• Assist Supply Chain team in the attainment of service and stock level KPI's in depot and 3 rd party suppliers via effective communication.
• Support the space planning manager in the effective management of category micro space to ensure profitability levels are maintained and sales opportunities maximised across all respective categories.
• Assist the Trading Manager as required.

The Successful Applicant

• Extensive knowledge of the consumer & wholesale supply chain, ideally FMCG.
• Experience in negotiation of supplier promotional income for value adding activities
• Experience of in-store layout and space allocation and emerging techniques to continually improve offering
• Excellent supplier management skills with exposure to complex relationships.
• Strong Financial Awareness; ability to analyse and interpret complex data.

What's on Offer

• Hybrid Working
• Free Parking
• Flexible start / finish times
• Discount on product

Senior Buyer- FMCG

Senior Buyer- FMCG

Senior Buyer- FMCG