Pets at Home
Senior Buyer - Food & Health
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At Pets at Home, we’re here to make life better for pets and the people who love them. And that starts with creating and delivering brilliant products our customers can trust. Products that nourish, delight and truly support pet wellbeing.
Our Food and Health categories are some of the fastest-growing areas of our business, and we’re looking for a Senior Buyer who’s ready to take their category to the next level. If you’re commercially sharp, passionate about product and excited by shaping something big, this could be your next opportunity.
A Role with Real Impact
This isn’t buying as usual. You’ll be shaping categories that are changing how people feed and look after their pets, a space full of innovation, customer passion and long-term potential.
You’ll lead the commercial strategy, unlock new opportunities and create a range that genuinely sets us apart. All while supporting our purpose: to make the world a better place for pets.
The role offers hybrid working from our Support Office in Handforth, Cheshire.
What you’ll be doing
- Taking full accountability for your category’s sales, margin and market share
- Turning customer insights and market trends into a winning proposition
- Leading strategic supplier relationships; negotiating, building partnerships and driving innovation
- Working with our Own Brand team to bring exciting new fresh and raw ranges to customers
- Partnering with teams across Supply Chain, Marketing, Retail and more to land your category brilliantly across every channel
- Acting as Transformation Lead to drive change across sourcing, distribution and the customer experience
- Creating simple, inspiring plans that help our colleagues understand (and get excited about!) where the category is headed
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You’ll collaborate with people across:
- Trading & Merchandising
- Own Brand
- Supply Chain
- Marketing & Digital
- Retail
- Suppliers passionate about shaping the future of pet nutrition
It’s a role where relationships matter, and where your influence and collaboration will shape real results!
What you’ll bring
- Several years’ buying experience in Food / FMCG and a strong commercial instinct
- Confidence making big decisions and owning outcomes
- A curious, proactive, “let’s make it happen” mindset
- Brilliant stakeholder skills. You know how to bring others with you
- Resilience and determination. You get things over the line
- A love of customer insight and using data to build better propositions
- And most importantly: a genuine desire to do the right thing for pets, customers and colleagues
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Why join us?
Because at Pets, you’ll be part of a team that cares. A place where you can be yourself, develop your career and create products that genuinely improve pets’ lives. You’ll have the freedom to shape a category with huge potential, and the support of people who want you to thrive.
Here your work has purpose. And your ideas really matter!
Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!
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