Horticultural Retail Buyer

HORTICULTURAL BUYER

HydroSure is seeking an exceptional person to join the company.

We seek the brightest and the best. Based in our Telford Head office, this is an excellent opportunity for an intelligent, analytical, hardworking, well-organised, and self-driven individual with strong negotiation skills and commercial awareness.

Key Responsibilities :

• Manage and develop online product ranges to deliver profitable business growth
• Understand the customer journey: customer insight, through to communicating product benefits and reasons to believe, identifying opportunities based on key reason/s for purchase
• Deliver innovation through new lines and product development
• Source and meet suitable suppliers/manufacturers, including attending UK and international trade shows to drive innovation
• Developing strong existing and building new supplier relationships
• Negotiate prices, payment terms, contracts as well as other aspects of supplier accounts
• Ongoing margin management
• Negotiate prices, payment terms, contracts as well as other aspects of supplier accounts
• Manage the product selection process and critical path, and effective communication to Merchandising team to ensure products and categories are optimally presented on our website.
• Support the business to deliver ad-hoc projects when required
• Has a commercial eye to identify gaps in the range and identify new market opportunities.
• A confident negotiator with the ability to develop effective business relationships
• A passion and drive to succeed, with a track record of delivering outstanding results
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A high degree of numeracy and literacy
• Able to analyse data and make quick commercial decisions based on information available
• Organised, able to manage own workload, prioritise and multitask
• Confident, driven, resilient and professional
• A great team player with a 'can do’ attitude
• Goes above and beyond just getting the day to-day tasks done

Education and Experience :

• Required: Graduate with great academic achievements - please detail qualifications achieved and grades awarded.
• A background in our product ranges is not necessary
• Previous buying/trading/product selection/product development experience is preferred.
• Experience in importing and own brand development welcomed

Other details :

• Flexible working Homeworking 1 Day / Week
• 23 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays)
• Additional day off for your birthday!
• Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave
• Company funding available for training