# Junior Buyer - Toys & Stationery

**Company**: Morrisons
**Location**: Warrington, Cheshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As a Junior Buyer - Toys & Stationery at Morrisons, you will be responsible for planning, sourcing, selecting, and negotiating a commercial and competitively priced product range across all channels, whilst maximising sales and margin for the department.

You 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 wholesale team by engaging with different teams across the business to translate customer buying insights into competitive customer propositions, ensuring quality and value.

Key responsibilities include:

- Maximising sales and profit in line with the budget plan

- Conducting regular competitor analysis, including range and price benchmarking

- Analysing market data

- Developing strong, collaborative relationships with suppliers

- Delivering a customer-relevant, commercially sound range for both UK and export customers

- Managing the critical path, engaging all key stakeholders to ensure smooth running of the development process, and on-time delivery of ranges to store

- Constantly reviewing sales and identifying opportunities for category growth

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

- Exceptional communication skills

- Ability to influence across several work levels

- Experience working in a buying role in a retail and sales environment

- Brilliant time-management & organisation with an ability to proactively manage a wide range of responsibilities throughout the development process

- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

- Plenty of initiative and a passion for working in an ever-changing fast-paced environment

- Strong commercial awareness and acumen with excellent interpersonal skills together with a strong customer-focused approach

- A passion for product and a keen eye for detail

In return for your hard work and commitment, Morrisons provides a range of benefits, including:

- Generous holiday entitlement

- Discretionary bonus scheme

- 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores from the day you join us

- 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, and lots more

- Optional payroll charity donations

- A range of family-friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

## Skills

### Required
- Exceptional communication skills
- Ability to influence
- Experience in buying role
- Time-management & organisation
- Commercial awareness
- Interpersonal skills
- Customer-focused approach

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