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Key Responsibilities:
* Continuously reviewing current Category performance and the market place, to ensure you understand how your area is currently trading, and how you can build on this to deliver profitable growth.
* Working with the Own-Label Product Development Teams and the supplier base, to deliver an innovative and profitable product range to meet anticipated customer demand and improve the commercial performance of the Category.
* Leading supplier negotiations and joint business planning for our key strategic partners, to maximise profitability, ensuring that suppliers meet requirements on margin, marketing support and delivery performance.
* Leading the promotional trade planning process and master plan for the category which is customer led and drives profitable sales growth, and being supplier funding champion/lead for the category.
* Delivering range reviews for your category focussed on meeting the needs of our customers, and delivering profitable growth.
* Working with the Trade Planning and marketing teams to maximise the success of promotional activity and NPD launches.
* Working with the Digital team to understand our customer behaviour online and tailor purchasing mechanics for trial, conversion & repeat.
* Providing information and analysis to assess levels of slow moving & dormant stock and work with the team to clear. Maintain stock at agreed levels for planned activity and to reduce overstocks.
* Responsible for any direct reports' performance and development through objective setting, coaching and development
Location:
This is a hybrid role with 2 days per week required in our Nuneaton Head Office (CV10 7RH)
The Person:
Key Requirements:
* Experience of Retail Buying or Category Management.
* Experience in Food is key.
* Good negotiation skills and influencing skills.
* Strong communication and time management skills.
* Track record of working independently.
* Ability to build relationships both with suppliers and internal multi-discipline teams.
* Strong numeracy and analytical ability to find trends and patterns from reports
What we offer:
Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:
* H&B Employee Discount - 25%
* Bonus
* Pension company contribution
* 33 Days Holiday per year (Inclusive of bank holidays)
* Private Medical Care
* Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
* Electric Car Scheme
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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