Own & Exclusive Brands Buyer - 12 month contract
- Develop and execute our Own Brand category plans in close collaboration with our Category teams and Product Developers.
- Inclusive culture with a focus on creating genuine career opportunities
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia
- A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline - with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
- A progressive and flexible 'Work from Anywhere' policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing.*
- Parental Leave provision - applies to permanent team members, and excludes casual team Members, fixed term team members and contractors.
- Work with a wide variety of stakeholders from both within the business and with our supply base and must therefore possess excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and problem-solving skills.
- Develop an intimate knowledge of our products and our customer, as well as the ability to stay on top of category trends, technologies, innovation, competition and supplier capability within food & non-food categories
- Maintain intimate knowledge of sales and GP performance of categories by SKU & Negotiate contracts on existing and new product portfolio.
- Deliver COGS reductions across the respective categories without impacting quality, through ensuring better buying and working collaboratively with our suppliers.
- Understand supply base capability and identify opportunities to nurture new supplier relationships to deliver long-term competitive advantage.
- Previous experience in Buying, with an emphasis on supplier development and procurement with food products.
- Strong understanding of product componentry and cost makeup of goods, as well as knowledge of manufacturing processes, and impact on the cost of goods.
- Analytical skills and understanding of customer insights to make informed decisions
- Demonstrated the ability to negotiate and influence with cross functional and external stakeholders
- Previous experience in compliance with supply expectation KPI's, monitoring and acting upon KPIs to ensure supply continuity across the product portfolio.