Buyer - Personal Care and Health

Job description

Job Description:

M&S Food is changing, and fast! We are transforming the M&S food business to be more relevant, more often to more people.

You will be joining an exciting area at a pivotal time in our transformation. You will be instrumental in defining the Personal Care & Health offer for our customers, enabling them to complete their full shop. This is an opportunity to lead an area of key strategic importance delivering incremental and continued growth.

We are looking for the right person who can shape, lead and grow our Personal Care & Health offer achieving significant market growth. You must be a trader at heart, commercial, agile and able to work at pace!

Key accountabilities and measures

·  Drive sales and profit in line with operating plan budgets
·  Drive market share performance
·  Lead category buying team (buyer, product developer technologist, forecast planner) in delivery of commercial objectives
·  Lead relationship with suppliers through effective commercial management
·  Prepare and agree category plan with Management Team through analysis of customer insight, sales and trends
·  Set effective range strategies to optimise selling format and product choice, understanding space requirements
·  Set clear range and price architecture
·  Ensure commercial strategy is in line with M&S key values and compliant to legal requirements
·  Set effective promotional and marketing plan in line with Food Group plan
·  Deliver targeted % of newness
·  Drive efficiency improvements with supply base
·  Compliance with the financial control process for Supplier contributions

Key skills

·  Experience in working with brands as well as a passion for own label product development.
·  Decision making
·  Commercial acumen and negotiation skills
·  Strong communication and influencing skills
·  Analysis of commercial and customer information to seize commercial opportunities
·  Team working and effective people management
·  Relationship building; stores and colleagues
·  Management of suppliers & relationship
·  Attention to detail

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