Vacancy details

CE Hardlines - Buyer/Buying Manager

Tesco is a great place to work - whether you're planning the layouts of our aisles, sourcing products in Thailand or improving our supply chain in Turkey.

We have become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and staff.

We believe in treating each other with respect, giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on.

It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us create value for our customers and earning their loyalty for life.

Job Specification:

To accelerate the growth of our Hardlines business in Central Europe we are establishing a new team based in the UK to set up a centralised buying model for some of our Home and Electrical categories. The team will create a competitive Hardlines product offer across Central Europe using International Sourcing, local suppliers and both local and global brands. The team's focus will be to develop and source quality product ranges across the countries whilst ensuring that local & regional needs are met.

We are presenting the opportunity for a Buyer to join our Central European team. Countries covered by the Central European team include Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Turkey.

As a Buyer your role will include creating profitable customer driven ranges and promotions to deliver sales and margin targets. The buying plan will support a group of products to support the delivery of the customer plan and promises.

Your responsibilities will be to:

Ensure the buying plan supports delivery of the customer plan

Hit sales and margin targets and then beat them

Have a great range which gives customers a reason to shop with us across all store formats and all trading formats

Develop the supplier base to achieve competitive advantage

Negotiate product cost and rebates to continually drive down costs for our customers

Plan and negotiate market leading promotions

Use the exit process to optimise sell through and minimise exit costs

Try to make things simpler for stores

Deliver against the critical path

Support the merchandisers in achieving our category depot service level target

Ensure the price basket index is never less than 100

Candidate Specification:

The successful individual will have General Merchandise Buying experience within a multi site retail consumer business.

You will have an understanding of country and global supply chain processes and a successful track record of buying products.

Reference: 766

Location: Welwyn Garden City

Salary: Competitive Salary plus Benefits

Position: Permanent

Sector: UK Head Office, Commercial, Hardlines

Apply before: Friday, 10 September 2010

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