Senior Buying Manager
Too Good To Go
- Madrid
- Permanente
- Tiempo completo
- Business Development - you won't be afraid to pick up the phone and build new connections to develop partnerships across all food categories and suppliers
- Account Management - you'll continually look for ways to drive existing partnerships forward, always with the mission and customer in mind
- Strategic planning - you will map a pipeline for a specific set of categories, including full stakeholder mapping, analyses of potential supplier partners and analysis of market opportunity sizing.
- Responsibility for initiating, developing and analysing strategic trials to further understand our consumer profiles and routes to driving greater profitability
- Portfolio management - you will be negotiating daily with our suppliers to achieve the best prices and ranges, buying products that will surprise and delight our customers
- Delivery of P&L targets through balancing risk and spend, tracking all expenditures against monthly projections
- Contributing to and ensuring the rollout of segment strategy plans
- Balance and deliver to an agreed margin target across a range of suppliers and product
- Source new suppliers, develop existing relationships and continually review pricing and range in order to deliver both profit and customer experience
- Proactively manage your supplier portfolio - instigate and deliver weekly, quarterly and annual business review meetings to continually deliver added value to our suppliers
- Make timely, data driven decisions on inventory and proposed stock holdings
- Work in close collaboration with demand planning and forecasting to capitalise on trends, tracking and reporting any opportunities and challenges
- Drive growth with partners, through new product categories, international relationships and greater volumes
- Adhere to and input into the evolution of current SOPs and strategies. Ensure all documentation processes are followed and that information is delivered to the appropriate departments after purchase.
- Extensive business growth experience, demonstrating an ability to build relationships, establish trust, and develop true partnerships
- Excellent commercial acumen - you can navigate your way confidently around a P&L and are experienced in price/ promotional modeling
- An unwavering customer-centric approach - you will have a good understanding of how to develop a proposition that is both innovative and exciting whilst keeping the customer experience at the heart of everything you do
- You're an excellent communicator - you understand when to speak and when to listen, and you are skilled in leading conversations and presenting at all levels
- A passion for the mission and for raising awareness of food waste and sustainability
- An analytical mindset - you are confident using raw data to proactively investigate trends and opportunities
- An independent yet collaborative nature - your colleagues will be dotted all around the world so you must have the desire to connect and share with others virtually whilst being happy to work independently
- You will speak fluent in English- any additional languages are a bonus!
- Experience in the FMCG industry - across any of the following teams: Buying, Account Management, Category, Business Development
- We Win Together
- We Raise the Bar
- We Keep It Simple
- We Build A Legacy
- We Care
- A rare opportunity to work in a social impact company (and certified B Corporation!) where you can see real and tangible impact in your role.
- Working alongside an international community of users, partners and 1,100+ colleagues across 17 countries that are on the same important mission.
- Personal and professional development opportunities in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
- An inclusive company culture where you can bring your authentic self to work
- A strong, values-driven team culture where we celebrate successes and socialise with colleagues that care to offer
We want to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. With that mission, it's only natural that we want to build a diverse and inclusive team of highly capable individuals who are passionate about doing things in a better way. We strongly believe we all excel and are more creative when we're allowed to be ourselves, and we're committed to a culture where all of us belong.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.