Buyer | Bradford
| Company: | Morrisons |
| Location: | West Yorkshire |
| Salary: | Competitive Salary Plus Excellent Benefits Package |
About The Role
Fancy working for Morrisons? We’ve got an incredible opportunity that doesn’t come around everyday for a Buyer to be based 4 days a week at our Head Office in Bradford.
Proud of our roots, we’ve got a great story to tell and can look forward to a fantastic future which you can be a part of!
We’re a Yorkshire-based food retailer, growing from a market stall in Bradford to one of the UK’s leading supermarkets, having 120,000 colleagues in just under 500 stores serving over 11 million customers every week.
Our trading teams are key to our success and we are looking for a commercial Buyer to join our busy, fast-paced and dynamic teams. We are on the hunt for traders and future traders to join Fresh/Produce & Ambient categories and would love to hear from anyone with relevant experience.
The Buyer will assist the Buying Manager/Senior Buying Manager in planning, sourcing, selecting and negotiating a commercial and competitively priced product range across all channels, whilst maximising sales and margin for the department.
Our commercial teams decide what we sell and at what price. We source great products for our customers and negotiate deals with suppliers. And we look for the best local produce, tracking down products around the world to meet constantly changing tastes. Own brands. Value brands. Global brands. We take great pride in them all.
Not only are we the second largest manufacturer of fresh food in the UK, but we also ensure our traceability, in particular our meat products, to show it is ethically sourced, from which region of the UK and by whom, to help us paint a full picture for our customers from farm-to-fork.
You’ll help to deliver exceptional, customer-led ranges which drive sales and margin across a specific category. You will build on the capability of our Buying team by engaging with different teams across the business to translate customer buying insights into competitive customer propositions, ensuring quality and value.
Working within embedded business teams, our team of friendly faces works as one to provide shopping trips and a career experience you won’t find anywhere else!
In return for your hard work, you’ll get a great pension, private healthcare (applicable roles), 15% colleague discount and 10% for 2 friends/family, money off at over 850 retailers with My Perks, and much more.
- Maximising sales and profit inline with the budget plan
- Regular competitor analysis including range, visual merchandising and price benchmarking
- Market data analysis
- Developing strong, collaborative relationships with suppliers
- Deliver a customer relevant, commercially sound range
- Managing the critical path, engaging all key stakeholders to ensure smooth running of the development process and on time delivery of ranges to store
- Constantly reviewing sales and identifying opportunities for category growth
About You
So that you are set for success, we are looking for a self-starter, who is an exceptional communicator with the ability to influence at all levels. You will work as part of a versatile team with a can-do culture, so it’s important that you are tenacious and strive for excellence. You will have experience and skills in:
- Experience working in a buying role in a retail environment
- Brilliant time-management & organisation with an ability to proactively manage a wide range of responsibilities throughout the development process
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Plenty of initiative and a passion for working in an ever changing fast paced environment
- Strong commercial awareness and acumen with excellent interpersonal skills together with a strong customer focused approach
- Have a passion for product and a keen eye for detail.
About The Team
At Morrisons, we’re the single biggest food manufacturer in the UK, and the only retailer to operate our own processing sites. Which means we’re not just responsible for keeping our shelves stocked – we need to stock our manufacturing sites, too.
As a true one-of-a-kind business, we curate, arrange and buy everything from raw materials like flour and meat to the products our customers pop in for every day. We negotiate prices and make sure we’re able to sell as much as we can. We look at product packaging and quality to help us decide where products will sit in our stores. And when you remember that each category is worth a percentage of our overall £12billion turnover from supermarket sales alone, the impact of each buying team is huge.
We work in embedded business teams, so our Buyers sit with their supply chain, finance and technical counterparts, working alongside each other to make decisions and take action quickly. We even have joint targets so that we’re unified in our mission to serve our customers.
About The Company
We’re foodmakers and shopkeepers. Together, #WeMakeMorrisons. And everyone’s welcome here. We work as one team to help feed the nation and make sure people can get the food they need. It’s all of our jobs.
As the only UK retailer with our own manufacturing business spread across 18 sites, not to mention nearly 500 stores, we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food, sell it, or even join us in our head office, we’d love to meet you.
And with all the support you need to be your best, you won’t just help us make Morrisons – you’ll build a rewarding career for yourself, too
We’re a diverse and inclusive employer. And we don’t just say it, we show it. Everyone is welcome at Morrisons!