Buying Manager - Scotland (Local) Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
About The Role
About the job
The Buying Manager for Scotland is key in positioning Morrisons as ‘the local food retailer in Scotland’. You are the leader for tailoring the customer offer across all our Scottish stores by developing and implementing regional plans that deliver on our customer and commercial objectives.
You source, plan and negotiate a commercial and competitively priced product range from Scottish based suppliers and will help to deliver exceptional, customer-led ranges which drive sales and margin across multiple categories. This will involve working across multiple business units, influencing the Commercial, Space and Merchandising, Supply Chain, Trade Planning and Events teams as well as with our Retail teams.
This is a full time, permanent role which operates over a four day working week*
The role is field based within Scotland while requiring occasional travel to our Head Office in Bradford.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
Understanding the needs of customers in Scotland and how our offer should be tailored to retain existing and acquire new customers;
Working with Buying Managers across key categories to grow our business with Scottish suppliers;
Build relationships with local suppliers, key industry stakeholders and be a Morrisons ambassador for Scotland;
Creating and delivering a joint local plan for Scotland through collaborative working relationships across commercial, marketing, merchandising, retail operations, stores and supply chain;
Building strong relationships with the Retail leadership team and Store Managers to ensure local solutions are delivered in all stores;
Working with stakeholders to source, range and promote products and ranges which meet regional and local tastes in Scotland; prominently located, actively promoted and clearly communicated;
Growing Scottish ranges through category range reset process;
Sourcing new suppliers through insight, customer and colleague feedback;
Delivering continuous improvement of our local ways of working;
Evaluating sales, volume, margin and waste and markdown to deliver improved and incremental profitability across Scottish lines and stores.
About The Company
Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.
Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.
We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.
Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…
Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;
- 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family member
Annual bonus scheme
Generous holiday entitlement
Four day working week with flexible working hours
Company pension contributions
Private healthcare
Perks with over 850 retailers
- Free parking onsite
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About You
About you
We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:
Worked in a commercial and/or sourcing team directly with goods for resale suppliers;
Experience of developing and delivering plans and driving improvements through implementing processes and managing critical paths;
Scotland food and drink and retail experience;
Ability to work at pace and be effective in a team and autonomously in a remote working based role;
Influences, with effective interpersonal skills, teams including Commercial, Merchandising, Property, interpret and utilise financial analysis and customer data;
Highly organised, self motivated with strong attention to detail and good communication / influencing skills;
Takes a customer first approach.
About us
15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus 10% for a friend/family member
Car Allowance
Annual bonus scheme
Generous holiday entitlement
Four day working week* with flexible working hours
Company pension contributions
Private healthcare
Perks with over 850 retailers
We're Foodmakers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. We’re 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 join us in our head office, we’d love to meet you…
- The four day working week comes with the requirement to work 6 Saturdays and 5 further days per year. These days are shorter (six hours in total) and are mainly used for personal development, quarterly team meetings and supporting our store and site colleagues.
