Retail Buyer - Beauty

Uniphar Group; Dublin; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Uniphar Group in Ireland is seeking an experienced Commercial Buyer to lead the buying strategy for Beauty & Personal categories across the 200+ retail pharmacy estate.

You will develop promotional cycles, manage supplier relationships, and collaborate with the Commercial and Operations teams to optimize range and profitability.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a similar buying role.
• Pharmacy or Beauty buying experience is desirable.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with proficiency in MS Office.
• Able to work in a diverse, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop the commercial strategy for Beauty & Front of Shop categories.
• Lead promotional cycle planning for Symbol pharmacies.
• Represent the commercial team at weekly trade meetings and contribute.

Skills

2+ years buying experience

Pharmacy/Beauty buying

Numerical & analytical skills

Diversity & pace adaptability

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Uniphar – Who We Are

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco‑medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting‑edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.

Supply Chain & Retail

Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar‑owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, McCauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.

Pharma – On Demand

The On‑Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide. We have offices in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. The company’s main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO’s and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties.

Culture at Uniphar

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long‑term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision‑making process.

Working as part of the Commercial team, the successful candidate will be responsible for driving the commercial buying strategy for our Beauty & Personal Categories for our 200+ retail pharmacy estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Development of the commercial strategy for our Beauty & Front of Shop categories
• Promotional cycle development for Symbol pharmacies
• To represent commercial team at the weekly trade meetings and to be an active participant.
• Working with Uniphar Consumer team to source and range best in class products for the Symbol pharmacies
• Reviewing promotions performance and providing insights to our management team
• Ensure the roll‑out of planograms and associated support documents
• Responsible for the communication of all commercial strategies to our Operations teams
• Developing/managing supplier relationships in order to deliver JBP and planogram compliance
• Use of the BI reporting suite to provide greater insights into category and range performance to help support decision making
• To be a representative of the commercial support team at trade shows & supplier events
• Work closely with the Operations team to develop our relationship with our symbol & franchise members to support driving their business.

Day To Day Responsibilities Include

• Contributing to the day to day running of the Commercial buying team
• Ensuring our group sales, margin & JBP budgets are achieved
• Responsible for stock of FOC categories in owned estate, managing dead/over/dated stock and supporting the stores with sell through as required
• Updating the Commercial Manager regularly on department development
• Taking an active role in the weekly commercial team meetings
• Ensuring suppliers are met in a timely manner and prioritized according to importance
• Ensuring all retail pricing is aligned with department margin targets & market pricing on the database
• Ensure database team have all relevant supplier & pricing information for categories
• Building a robust promotions calendar, encompassing JBP agreements
• Development of the category plans & strategies
• Ensuring planograms are updated based on schedule
• Attending trade shows where appropriate
• Contributing relevant information for board packs for symbol updates
• Ensuring Uniphar link up commercial strategies are communicated through our channels
• Attending Uniphar commercial meetings weekly
• Working closely with the Operations team to deliver our commercial strategy to our owned, franchise & symbol members

Key Skills & Experiences

• Minimum 2+ years in a similar buying role
• Pharmacy or Beauty buying experience desirable but not essential
• Excellent numerical & analytical skills to include excellent computer literacy & comprehensive experience with all MS products such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc
• Ability to work in a diverse, fast paced environment