Buying Manger Sliced Cooked Meats, Pate and Deli

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for a Buying Manager across Sliced Cooked Meats & Pate.

The successful candidate will have accountability for Sliced Cooked Meats & Pate which is a substantial category taking between £10.5m to £11.5m per week and is a critical area for customers' shopping experience. You'll work closely with strategic partners to deliver our ambitions including growing Finest share, growing past our 30% market share & improving the health of the range. 

Given the scale and importance of the area, it comes with a lot of exposure as its a key area within MFPE. This role will lead on backwall deli which is an £80m proposition covering a number of areas where you will own the strategy and work closely with peers to grow the prop to over £100m.

You will be responsible for

Passionate about taking ownership of the category to deliver: 

 - Market out performance & 30% market share

 - Aldi Price Match across key lines 

 - A credible range that supports volume delivery while manages the mix 

 - Forecasting & managing profitability across the year 

Build strong supplier relationships to deliver:

  - great quality, prices and service level on a consistent basis

  - Improvements to quality & costs through improvements 

Be brave to deliver strategic opportunities by truly understanding our customers & suppliers

- Grow finest across in Aisle and Backwall deli from 20% to 30% 

- Improve health of range 

- Reduce and potentially remove EAT to be replaced with Core in the APM 

- Backwall deli achieves over £100m in sales 

You will need

• Strong trading/buying experience
• Commercial and strategic thinking
• Confidence owning a high-profile category
• Proven experience with suppliers and supply chain
• Strong influencer across teams and at all levels
• Passion for food and the customer
• Meat industry experience is a bonus

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