One Stop - Buying Manager - Wine & Spirits

What’s in it for you

At One Stop we value our colleagues just as much as our customers, and part of this is the benefits we offer:

• 10% Discount in One Stop & Tesco stores
• Discounted Tesco pharmacy services
• Discounted shopping website
• Free eye Test
• A great holiday package
• A commitment to your career development
• Community involvement and charity work
• Pensions Scheme

One Stop is a subsidiary of the Tesco Group but is operated as a separate business and as such benefits offered will differ between One Stop and Tesco.

About the role

At One Stop we aim to serve our local shoppers a little better every day, with a culture that is friendly, fun and where everyone is treated with respect, you have a really great place to work. As part of the team you can make a difference to our business by:

• Treating each other how they like to be treated.
• Making things easier.
• Working together as one team.
• Making our customers at the heart of everything we do.

We want you to understand the business inside out, we need you to live and embed our values and build great relationships with the amazing people across our business.

You will be responsible for

•Assist in creating a strategic plan to deliver better for customers and simpler for stores.

•Work cross functionally to ensure customer perception consistently improves and our plans/initiatives are delivered effectively, efficiently and on time.

•Understand market competition and identify new opportunities.

•Create a promotional plan that is best in class and appeals to our customers.

•Strive to be 1st in market in delivering NPD and initiatives.

•Consistently improve our range to our customers needs.

•Ensure the price basket is managed so we are competitive in the market whilst delivering the margin.

•Communicate price and promotions through an agreed marketing plan.

•Work with suppliers to deliver new initiatives that have cost benefits for One Stop.

•Liaise with suppliers to ensure they fully understand our ways of working so any processes put in place comply with company principles.

•Work closely with the retail representative in the SSC to ensure retail sign off is gained well in advance.

•Work to ensure that all initiative are right for stores and build a plan and process that is simple to execute.

•Work with supply chain to deliver best route to market, improve availability, reduce waste and understand MOQ impacts.

•Look at route cause of problems and offer other solutions.

•Manage & conduct work activities in such a way as to ensure the safety, health & welfare at work of all colleagues & customers.

•Ask for and action feedback.

You will need

•Strong negotiation skills

•Commercial awareness

•Customer focused

•Analytical skills

•Understand market conditions & future trends

•Able to be pro-active & Re-active

•Self motivated with endless enthusiasm & passion