Category Buyer - Chilled

An exciting new role within a successful Wholesale business focusing on their Chilled proposition.

With a National Footprint and a growing customer base this is an exciting time to consider making a move!

Below are some of the key responsibilities for the role.

• Developing and delivering the Range plans
• Ensuring the category and sub-category budgets are achieved
• Working with the Supply Manager on the availability of their category
• Building supplier relationships and collaboration opportunities
• Being responsible for the overall direction and performance of particular categories
• Creating Category Business Plans from the annual category position profile
• Ensuring new trends are brought into the business and an exit strategy for delisted products is in place
• Full launch plans to be developed working with our Marketing, Sales and Operations teams
• Developing and managing the promotion pricing strategy and promotional plans
• Evaluating promotion performance and refining promotional plans to maintain successful promotional strategies
• Ensuring appropriate items for markdown and on markdown to achieve planned sell-through and exit dates on seasonal productMonitoring market conditions to establish necessary price changes

Successful candidates within have worked as a Buyer/Senior Buyer/Category Manager within either a Retail, Food Service or Wholesale environment