Key Responsibilities:
* To determine purchase order requirements.
* To ensure purchase orders are raised and communicated in a timely manner in line with vendor lead times.
* To manage the open order book ensuring purchase orders are prioritised to minimise out of stocks and drive availability instore and on-line.
* To ensure promotional availability is delivered to the required levels.
* To ensure range review availability is delivered in a timely manner to ensure success.
* To manage PO's and ensure they are closed in a timely manner.
* To maintain key documents with up to date and current information i.e. open order book, co-pack ordering model.
* To manage our vendor base and ensure they are performing to the required standards as stated in the vendor manual.
* To manage our vendors OTIF performance.
Location: Hybrid with 2 days based in Nuneaton head office.
The Person
Key Requirements:
* Ability to work cross functionally Category teams, warehouse.
* Ability to create effective relationships with vendor base.
* Ability to create effective relationships with the wider Commercial Planning team, ensuring best practise is met and maintained across the function.
* Able to think creatively to solve problems.
* Intermediate Excel skills.
* Desirable experience of working on in-house ordering systems POGO, Forecasting systems - Apollo, Replenishment system - F&R, Moomin
* Ability to interpretation and manipulation of data.
What we offer
Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:
* H&B Employee Discount - 25%
* Pension company contribution
* Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
* And many more!
We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.
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