Senior Buyer Apple, Chrome, Tablets, Refurbished Technology

Role overview:

Senior Buyer Apple, Chrome, Tablets, Refurbished Technology
London
Currys London Campus at Waterloo
12 month secondment / fixed term contract
Full Time
Grade 5

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

The Senior Buyer will work closely with several of the largest company supplier partners in developing strategical initiatives to enhance category sales and end to end profitability growth.

Positioned within the commercial team, you will be centred in a fast-paced team and building strong relationships with our supplier partners.

Working closely with our internal teams the Senior Buyer will focus on securing supplier support to drive additional sales and margin where opportunity for upside exists, particularly to mitigate risks against committed financial objectives.

Role overview:

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Negotiating product ranges: cost pricing, additional terms, exclusivity, distribution, stock availability
• Negotiating additional fixed and variable financial terms related to ranging, activity and performance – maximising EBIT across the category
• Negotiating promotional funding support to drive sales while maintaining margin in line with financial objectives
• Securing adequate product and promotional differentiation from competitors to support market share growth objectives
• Pricing the product range in line with agreed category CPI targets
• Working with the returns team to ensure adequate supplier returns agreements are in place contractually to both meet customer service requirements and minimise cost exposure after sale
• Uses customer and market data provided by the go to market team to ensure correct ranges and promotional plans are in place to drive customers for life, improvements in market share and net profitability through development of exclusive products/plans where appropriate to address customer needs
• Working with merchandising team and central finance teams, ensures the claiming and tracking of income against trading account targets, ensuring all due supplier funding is claimed on time in line with contractual obligations. Ensure that we are forecasting at the right level to maximise sales and stock turn.
• Remedy all supplier issues relating to cost price, product, stock, financial claims, contractual issues and other
• Ensuring supplier contracts are completed in line with the company DOA and pre-determined annual timetable
• Developing capable and committed colleagues who are fully aware of the company vision and the role they play in delivering it.
• Managing, coach and develop direct reports to deliver category targets and to ensure compliance with the Commercial critical path and processes.
• Providing and regularly review team members’ objectives, priorities and performance via Personal Development Review and one to ones, supporting their professional and personal development, ensuring that the right talent plans are in place to support the talent pipeline for the business.

You will need:

• Substantial buying experience working within a FMCG/Fashion or Hard Goods fast paced retailer
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to manage all supplier partnerships at differing levels of seniority
• Good judgment and strong decision-making skills to enable the right actions for the category
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills to review data and provide recommendations/actions plans to drive sales, profit and cash
• Good planning, organisational and multitasking skills
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, capable of presenting to senior stakeholders as well as working cross functionally to achieve the desired results
• Customer champion with excellent commercial awareness and understanding of customer needs
• Good working knowledge of SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word and PowerPoint as well as MS Office workflow tools
• Experience of working to deadlines and managing critical paths
• Good presentation and speaking skills

We know our people are the secret to our success. That's why we're always looking for ways to reward great work. You'll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• Holiday benefits - 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holiday entitlement)
• Private medical insurance
• Life Assurance
• Competitive pension scheme
• Access to discretionary bonus
• Hybrid working; our primary Currys Campus is at Waterloo (WeWork)

Why join us:

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.