# Buying Manager - Citrus, Bananas, Stone Fruit

**Company**: Morrisons
**Location**: Bradford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We’re looking for a Buying Manager within our Commercial team at Morrisons. The Buying Manager will work in planning, sourcing, selecting and negotiating a commercial and competitively priced product range across all channels, whilst maximising sales and margin.

The Buying Manager will help to deliver exceptional, customer-led ranges which drive sales and margin across a specific category. You will build on the capability of our Buying team by engaging with different teams across the business to translate customer buying insights into competitive customer propositions, ensuring quality and value.

Responsibilities:

- Developing and delivering the category plan for a high spend, complex area

- Driving sales and profit through acting on our customer insight to deliver the right range and customer proposition

- Delivery of margin targets through negotiation and robust supplier plans

- Delivering our supplier promises through continuously improving supplier relationships and engagement with detailed supplier knowledge and regular supplier visits

- Using your market understanding of the category, including competitor insight to develop compelling category strategies

- Actively support and promote the high performance culture of the Buying team

- Helping to deliver a great customer experience

- Operating in full compliance with the Grocery Suppliers Code of Practice (GSCOP)

Requirements:

- Track record as a Buying Manager/Senior Buyer in a similar environment

- A passion for range selection and curation, driving customer satisfaction

- Proven experience of delivering category strategies in a complex, competitive market

- A strong customer centricity with a track record of putting the customer first

- Ability to work at pace, in a fast and flexible environment

- Significant commercial understanding with an excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision making background

- Experience of building relationships at all levels to drive commercial benefits

- Experience of implementing and driving unified strategies in a complex business environment

Benefits:

- Private healthcare

- Car Allowance

- Generous holiday entitlement

- Discretionary bonus scheme

- 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores

- Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member

- Genuine career progression and development opportunities

- Subsidised staff canteen

- Free parking

- Competitive pension and life assurance

- Healthcare / Wellbeing benefits including Aviva Digital GP

- 'MyPerks' with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms

- Optional payroll charity donations

- A range of family-friendly policies

## Skills

### Required
- Buying Manager
- Category Management
- Supplier Negotiation
- Commercial Awareness
- Analytical Skills
- Communication Skills

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