Job title: Buyer – Pet & Bird
Company: Dobbies Garden Centres
Job description: We currently have an opportunity for a Buyer to join our Pet & Bird (Buying & Merchandising) team based in our Central Support Offices at Lasswade. You will be responsible for the delivery of commercial ranges and unique products that will create a reason for customers to shop at Dobbies and deliver the sales and margin required. As a manager and leader within Dobbies, showing strong team management skills, driving performance through empowering your direct reports and your teams to make the right decisions. Our Buyer role offers a hybrid pattern of home working and working from our Central Support Office. You can choose to work more frequently in the office if you’d prefer.
Role Contribution
- Understand trends and metrics to range product in line with customers’ expectations
- Manage and develop supplier relationships to ensure stock and cash management
- Identify supply chain issues and manage to ensure stock availability
- Analyse consumer buying patterns and predict future trends
- Working with the merchandising team, manage plans for stock levels
- Regularly review performance indicators, such as sales, sell through, promotions and stock levels
- Meet suppliers, negotiate and agree terms of contracts
- Maintain relationships with existing suppliers and source new suppliers for future products
- Attend trade fairs to select and assemble new collection of products
- Present new ranges to the senior team
- Curate and trade multi channel strategy
- Train and mentor junior team members
- Provide oversight to team, managing day-to-day issues and concerns, coaching and developing all team members, driving performance and deliver of the company goals through inhouse tools and ensuring all managed within company policy, procedures and processes.
- Take the lead in creating a great place to work for everyone; create a positive and engaged team through recognition, fun and inspiring others to achieve
- An effective coach with the ability to provide direct, honest and constructive feedback
Systems
- Advanced in excel, powerpoint and word
- Microsoft D365
- Power BI
Personal attributes
- Strong analytical skills
- Commercial awareness
- Creative with an eye for trends and future opportunities
- Excellent negotiation skills and ability to network and influence people
- Ability to cope with the pressure of having to make important decisions and meet tight deadlines
- Confident presentation style
- Drive and determination
- Numerical and IT proficient
- A passion for retail
- Empathetic, organised, empowering where appropriate. Good delegator and manager of individuals and teams
You’ve done a good job when….
- Range and product meet customer expectations
- There are excellent supplier relationships
- Exciting future product are sourced and bought
- Margin and turnover meet and exceed budget
- You have a good understanding of people management requirements, approachable and understanding and able to work with team members to find solutions to day-to-day issues.
- You have knowledge of business goals and how team will contribute to company success
- You resolve conflict and handle negative behaviour effectively
What we offer
- Holiday – enjoy a well deserved break with 33 annual leave days per year (pro-rata for part time)
- Discount – treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food halls
- Hybrid working – a combination of office and home working to help balance your work life balance
- Pension – save for the future with our company contributed enhanced Group Pension Plan
- Season ticket loans – spread the cost of travel with an interest free loan
- Access to Wagestream – support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for the future and financial advice
- Access to Retail Trust – seek confidential support, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform
- Access to Dobbies Academy – continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes
- Study assistance – invest in your professional development with funded courses and qualifications
- The little things to keep you going through the day – free tea, coffee, and milk
- Collaborative office space – with access to our wellbeing room, and book swap
- Invites to our annual company conference, summer and Christmas social events
- And more including…Life assurance, eye care, cycle to work scheme…oh and a dog friendly office
About Dobbies
For 150 years, the Dobbies name has stood for quality. During this time we’ve been proud to provide the very best products and expert advice to gardeners throughout the UK.
Today Dobbies is UK’s largest Garden Centre retailer with stores across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. Naturally, we have one of the biggest and best ranges of quality plants and gardening equipment around. You don’t have to be an avid gardener to enjoy Dobbies because, as well as having everything to make your garden grow, we have everything you need to simply relax and enjoy your garden – and much more.
Expected salary:
Location: Edinburgh
Job date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 07:59:42 GMT
