Buyer - Paper & Household Cleaning (L2)

We’re Ocado Retail. We’re the people powering Ocado.com, the UK’s fastest-growing grocer, and Ocado Zoom, our almost-as-fast-growing, same-day grocery service. As the world’s biggest and best online-only grocer, we work tirelessly to bring more of what matters to our customers: unbeatable range, fair value and effortless convenience.

We’re an exceptional and mighty bunch of colleagues who are inspired by our three awesome values: Always be curious, Bring your best self and Challenge what's possible. We’re growing fast, and we’re looking for like-minded people to join us for the next step of this.

The Role/Profile

This role would suit someone with substantial Buying experience. You will have accountability for the total Paper department within the Buying team. You will be responsible for ensuring your supply base and the product range is optimised, proactively using data and analysis to maximise performance for the department. This is all underpinned by driving sales, profitability and share growth to support the overall Ocado Retail strategy and goals. You should also demonstrate a clear passion for negotiation as this area in particular has been impacted significantly with rising energy prices which is subsequently impacting costs across the department.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing supplier performance, identifying potential new suppliers, and support to build long term supplier relationships
• Using insight tools to analyse and understand performance issues and opportunities
• Regularly checking competitors and ensuring that the your range provides the best customer offering whilst also investigating new trends and onboarding trending suppliers into the range.
• Negotiating with suppliers to agree and deliver, market-leading joint business plans for your areas aligned to the customer plan & category strategy
• Negotiating on supplier-funded media and delivering against the target
• Planning and delivering trade, promotions & events plans, striving to exceed KPIs, drive customer penetration and basket spend
• Working with the Supply Chain team to ensure we have best-in-class availability, and helping get our products to our customers on time
• Working with suppliers and the category quality team to ensure product quality is achieved and maintained
• Adhering to all Ocado policies, storage, and handover protocols and successfully completing all of your training so that you have zero GSCOP breaches. Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

Key Skills

• Previous buying experience in retail or food sectors
• Excited about working in retail and food
• Strong negotiation skills
• Good commercial acumen
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong planning and organisational skills
• Communicate and influence a wide range of audiences
• A great team player
• Results orientated
• Demonstrates Ocado Retail’s values

What We Offer You

At Ocado, we value our employees and want to ensure you are rewarded for your contribution through competitive salaries and fantastic benefits.

• Hybrid working
• Free onsite parking and free shuttle service from Hatfield station
• Regular socials
• 26 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• 15% Ocado discount and 20% Marks and Spencer discount
• Private Medical insurance
• Income Protection & Life Assurance
• Enhanced Pension Scheme (with 7% matching)
• Exciting company benefits through Reward Gateway

A little bit more about us
Our business is a joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S. It’s a successful combination of award-winning customer service and unrivalled customer data; world-leading technology and logistics from Ocado Group, and unrivalled product development from M&S.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Ocado Retail Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employers are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status

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