Senior Buyer

As a Senior Buyer, you will have accountability for a specified category within the commercial buying team. You will be responsible for Buying ensuring your supply base and the product range is optimised, proactively using data and analysis to maximise performance to and drive sales, profitability and share growth to support the growth to to support the overall Ocado Retail strategy and goals.

What you’ll do

• Manage the category P&L and deliver against KPIs

• Complete category reviews to refine range and align to the business and category strategy, and support your direct reports in delivering their category reviews

• Plan and deliver trade, promotions and events plan

• Identify opportunities to drive customer penetration

• Identify opportunities to improve all-in margin, negotiate with suppliers to deliver savings

• Negotiate with suppliers to agree and deliver market-leading plans aligned to the customer plan and category strategy.

• Analyse and assess performance issues and opportunities using data and reporting tools, devise and implement solutions

• Identify, analyse and source first-to-market / Ocado exclusive product innovation using customer, market and supplier insights to guide decision making

• Ensure range changes are aligned to the category and business strategy

• Manage and review the performance of a complex supplier base through communicating and developing relationships with suppliers to drive engagement and performance

• Work closely with demand managers and the supplier base to ensure best in class availability

• Identify and create plans to mitigate potential issues / events that may impact supply

• Work closely with suppliers and the quality team to ensure product quality meets Ocado requirements

• Adhering to all Ocado policies, storage and handover protocols and successfully completing all of your training so that you have zero GSCOP breaches. Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt

• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

• Significant retail buying experience and some management experience required

• Excited about working in retail and food

• Proficient in Excel, with prior experience working with customer, transactional or financial data

• Leadership capability/people management

• Influencing and stakeholder management

• Very strong negotiation skills

• Project management capability

• Able to analyse complex sets of data

• Car scheme

• Company pension

• Discounted gym membership

• Private medical insurance

• Shuttle service provided