Senior Buyer - Fresh - Zoom by Ocado (12 Month FTC)

We’re looking for a Senior Buyer – Fresh to join the team to lead the Fresh and Chilled half of the Zoom by Ocado trading department. You will be responsible for managing and trading the Fresh department and line-management of the Chilled and Frozen areas, ensuring your supply base and product range is optimised, proactively using data and analysis to maximise performance and drive sales, profitability and order growth to support the growth to to support the overall Zoom by Ocado strategy and goals.

What you’ll do

• Lead the Fresh and Chilled & Frozen trading areas to deliver the Zoom trading P&L and report against KPIs, managing Fresh directly and line-management of the Chilled & Frozen Trading Executive

• Manage and enhance the category-specific promotional strategy for this half of the Zoom trading business

• Deliver optimised category range reviews, promotional plans and strategic change programmes as we optimise our offering across our multiple sites, translating the strategy into clear plans to drive growth

• Work with key suppliers to share insight, agree and deliver market-leading plans aligned to the channel growth strategy and execute collaborative projects delivering against key insight requirements

• Analyse and assess performance issues and opportunities using data and reporting tools, leading the team to devise and implement solutions

• Work closely with Supply Chain to manage availability and purge targets

• Forecast and manage the trading budget effectively, with clear communication on both live and upcoming challenges to performance including weekly Monday KPI reporting, Mid-week Trade updates, as well as longer-term outlooks

• End to end management of multiple projects, establishing and building relationships across the Zoom team, wider Ocado business and Ocado Group Logistics and Operations colleagues to deliver step-changes in performance

• Proactively seek ways to improve the proposition. This will include refining existing processes and ways of working with suppliers, Ocado.com buyers, Supply Chain and senior-level stakeholders

• Develop and lead a high-performing team, providing day to day coaching and feedback to ensure they exceed their targets and giving them the opportunities to be their best

• Significant retail buying experience

• Prior experience managing Fresh and/or Chilled range and supply bases

• Excited about working in food, retail and the quick-commerce market

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

• Leadership capability/people management

• Influencing and stakeholder management

• Supplier management

• Project management capability

• Able to analyse complex sets of data

• Car scheme

• Company pension

• Discounted gym membership

• Private medical insurance

• Shuttle service provided