Senior Buyer - Chocolate

Senior Buyer - Chocolate

Sainsbury’s Buying Teams ensure that we get the best products at the best prices to help us deliver quality and value to our customers. We’re a big, supportive and friendly team who negotiate with, and manage suppliers, identifying cost effective sourcing routes, and we aim to deliver on a mission that matters: Helping Everyone Eat Better. After all, customers are at the heart of everything we do.

As a Senior Buyer you'll own, deliver and optimise the buying and selling strategy for Sainsbury’s Chocolate within the Impulse category. You'll sustainably grow market share and cash profit through a competitive and distinctive customer offer. You’ll work cross functionally to review product ranges, identifying opportunities for product improvement, new product development and cost savings through consolidation, tenders and efficiencies.

As a Senior Buyer you’ll:

• Develop and execute a customer-focused, source and selection strategy
• Identify and negotiate cost savings through brilliant supplier relationship management and understanding of the end-to-end supply chain
• Implement Pricing, Promotional & Ranging strategies
• Liaise with the Buying Manager and Category Manager to identify future commercial opportunities
• Work with Supply Chain, Own Brand and Retail to drive the optimum product range
• Deliver to business targets on sales, profit, value and range
• Support the implementation of NPD (New Product Development)
• Liaise with the Product Technologist/Developer in setting the quality criteria for products, ensuring the optimal balance between quality and price is maintained

Our Impulse Buying Team would love to see:

• Previous buying experience (Grocery/Fresh)
• Know and understand the product, market and consumer
• Experience of tender process with excellent negotiation skills
• Knowledge of buying systems and processes
• Strong commercial acumen
• Effective communication, networker and influencing skills
• Brilliant prioritisation and organisation
• Ability to spot issues, plan to mitigate risk with high levels of resilience
• Experience to lead relevant cross functional projects through to delivery

Why Sainsbury’s?

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

As well as a great work-life balance, lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, click here for more detail on our benefits: https://sainsburys.jobs/working-for-us/benefits/

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