Seven Search and Selection Ltd
Senior Buyer Fresh Food
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Our client: Extremely successful, fast growing online retailer based in Central London Highly commercial environment with a fast-paced culture focused on delivering a best in class customer experience
This role is ideal for an individual with fresh foods buying experience who wants to join a scale up business where they can play a part in the growth and expansion of the business. Location: 4 days in the office (Central London), 1 day from home
The role: As Senior Buyer Fresh Food you will develop, implement, and review a branded buying strategy for a specific range of product categories delivering both customer and profitability objectives.
The Senior Buyer Fresh Food will understand data driven insights and market trends to identify areas of growth and opportunity that will grow sales and profit. In the role the Senior Buyer Fresh Food will own supplier negotiations driving profitability and availability. Working cross functionally with marketing, ecommerce, pricing and partnerships teams the Senior Buyer Food will lead the category strategy and vision that will exceed customers expectations and deliver financial objectives
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Ideal candidate: This Senior Buyer Fresh Food role is ideal for a commercial customer buyer with experience from UK Food retail. Ideally you will have ecommerce experience. This can be across protein, produce, diary etc. It is essential to be able to demonstrate hands-on negotiation and supplier management experience along with commercial strategy development. You will have strong analytical skills and data skills and will be a proficient user of Excel For the role it is essential to be a tenacious strong communicator who gets things done You will thrive in a culture that is fast paced, high energy and growth focused. In addition you will be comfortable working with ambiguity and will take a solution-driven approach Must be a high energy self-starter who is a fantastic relationship builder with the ability to work cross functionally
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Benefits & details: You will thrive in a scale up environment that has a growth mindset Excellent package – dependent on experience £75000 Location – Central London with flexible working (4 days in the office and 1 day from home)
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