Senior Buyer - Floorcare

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as a Senior Buyer offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within our Floorcare, Irons, and Seasonal Electricals category. Managing a turnover of £350m and collaborating with renowned brands such as Dyson, Vax, and Shark, you'll have the chance to shape and implement a customer-driven strategic vision. Your expertise in buying, range planning, supplier management, and market trends will be instrumental in delivering a differentiated product proposition that sets us apart in the market. With a focus on continuous improvement and driving profitability, you will be part of a dynamic and supportive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Join us and be part of a leading retail organisation where your skills and contributions can make a real difference in the success of our business.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Buyer at Sainsbury's, you will play a pivotal role in translating the category strategy into actionable plans to deliver profitable growth for your assigned ranges. You will be responsible for creating and implementing a customer-driven strategic vision, understanding market trends and competitors through collaboration with Insight and CMI teams. Your role will involve collaborating with UK Design teams and Product Development to deliver the own brand proposition, ensuring well-designed ranges that differentiate Sainsbury's in the market. You will work closely with global brands to influence their product offers and build a credible curated customer proposition. Additionally, you will be accountable for managing pricing, developing joint business plans with suppliers, and navigating negotiations on costing. In conjunction with Merchandising teams, you will monitor market trends, competitor activity, pricing, and stock availability, making data-driven decisions to maximise sales, profitability, and market share. As a leader, you will manage and develop a high-performing team, drive commercial successes, and foster a culture of development and progression. Overall, your expertise, commercial acumen, and strategic mindset will contribute to the success of your ranges and the achievement of key performance indicators.

Who you are

• Strong commercial awareness and previous Buying experience, preferably within a Non-food Omni-channel environment.
• Knowledge of systems and processes in a complex multi-channel environment, adept at operating across digital, store, catalogue trading, able to balance short and long term objectives to deliver the category plan.
• High degree of commercial acumen with a proven track record of commercial successes within this or other organisations.
• A knowledge and understanding of Legal, competition law, anti-bribery and corruption, and Intellectual Property.
• Ability to analyse complex data from multiple sources to drive decisions and strategies.
• Proven track record of delivering results to targets as an individual and within a team.
• Financially astute; understands how own business decisions can influence shareholder value, understands financial levers to drive product performance with category responsibility.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment.
• Ability to identify market trends and opportunities, at pace.
• Confidence to influence and engage at all levels.
• Effective communicator, presenter, and team player with an ability to bring others with them to deliver the strategy.
• Relevant technical experience for given product range.