Senior Buyer - Gaming

Currys plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK tech retailer is seeking a Senior Buyer - Gaming at their London Campus. This full-time position involves managing supplier relationships and overseeing pricing strategies to maximize sales. Applicants should have extensive experience in gaming and significant buying experience within fast-paced retailers. Strong negotiation and analytical skills are essential. The role offers 25 days of annual leave, private medical insurance, and hybrid working options.

Benefits

25 days of annual leave

Competitive pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Colleague Discounts on Tech

Access to Champion Health

Hybrid Working

Qualifications

• Extensive experience working in gaming.
• Substantial buying experience within FMCG/Fashion or Hard Goods.
• Strong negotiation skills with supplier partnerships.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills.
• Customer champion with commercial awareness.
• Good working knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Management experience of more than 1 direct report.
• Experience with electricals market and products.

Responsibilities

• Manage category supplier relationships according to strategy.
• Understand future technology roadmap from suppliers.
• Negotiate financial terms to maximize sales and profit.
• Work across categories on strategic alignments.
• Support development of online category strategies.
• Introduce new processes for simplifying activities.
• Collaborate with online teams for category success.
• Develop buying team skills using insights and data.

Skills

Extensive experience working in gaming

Strong negotiation skills

Excellent numerical and analytical skills

Customer champion

Good working knowledge of SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Management/leadership experience

Experience in electricals market and products

Tools

SharePoint

Teams

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Buyer - Gaming

Currys London Campus at Waterloo

Permanent

Full Time

Grade 5

At Currys we’re united by one passion : to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. 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.

Positioned within the commercial team, you will be right in the centre of a fast‑paced team, working hand in hand with the go to market team, building strong relationships with our supplier partners. As a Senior Buyer, you need to have extensive buying and management experience as you will be responsible for high turnover, complex categories leading a team of direct reports. You will be accountable for all supplier negotiations in line with the category strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing all category supplier relationships in line with our overall commercial supplier strategy and the category strategy
• Work with suppliers to develop a strong understanding of the future technology roadmap, enabling the category to adequately plan ahead for likely changes in customer trends and demand
• Negotiating additional fixed and variable financial terms related to ranging, activity and performance – maximising sales & profit across the category
• Working cross category- with vision and other relevant categories to align on attach strategies
• Support development of an overarching small box strategy which addresses the specific challenges of categories predominantly sold online
• Introduce new processes and ways of working, actively seeking to simplify day to day activities across a complex trading area
• Work closely with the online trade team to understand the key levers to deliver the category strategy in an online dominant trading environment
• Develop the buying team in core trading skills and use of insight and data to make informed decisions

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience working in gaming
• Substantial buying experience working within a FMCG / Fashion or Hard Goods fast paced retailer
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to manage all supplier partnerships at differing levels of seniority
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills to review data and provide recommendations / actions plans to drive sales, profit and cash
• Customer champion with excellent commercial awareness and understanding of customer needs
• Good working knowledge of SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word and PowerPoint as well as MS Office workflow tools
• Management / leadership experience of more than 1 direct report
• Experience of both the electricals market and products

Why join us

We know our people are the secret to our success. That's why we're always looking for ways to reward great work. You'll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including :

• 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
• Access to Champion Health
• 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.