Buyer FFF and Kids Dine

We have an exciting opportunity for a Buyer to join the George Home team! This role sits within the Home Essentials category and you will manage a diverse and challenging product portfolio across food storage, flasks and filters (FFF) and kids dine (bottles, lunch bags and boxes). This role combines product development and building relationships with key branded partners. It offers a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to the GM commercial teams and to engage colleagues across the business to land an integrated, best in class customer offer.

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We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.,

• As a Buyer within Home Essentials - FFF and kids dine, you will work collaboratively with key suppliers and internal stakeholders alike in order to deliver sales, pricing and growth ahead of the market while helping to manage the category P&L.


• You will negotiate and deliver business plans as well as understand customers and implement strategies that meets their needs. You will do this by having a thorough understanding of current and future market trends, as well as the George Brand.


• You will also need to understand, track & negotiate around key commodities and deliver cost to serve programmes with suppliers to ensure great value for the customer.
  
  Previous experience working as a Buyer within a trend driven category


• Be passionate about product development


• Strong commercial awareness and being highly numerate


• A strong understanding of customer requirements, market trends and competitors


• Value strong relationships, with both internal colleagues and our suppliers
  
  Competitive salary plus benefits., Hybrid and flexible working - everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point. Flexible working meaning you work where it works to meet both your needs and the business needs


• Discretionary bonus - Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts


• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit - Looking forward to the future


• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays - Making sure you take time for your self and switch off


• 4 weekly pay - which means you get an extra payday a year


• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions - Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us


• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year


• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)


• Free parking, Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to chose where you'll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

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  Discretionary company bonus
  
• Company pension up to 7% matched


• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.


We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves