About this role
Role Overview
- Source new SKUs and suppliers to rapidly scale our non-horticultural gifting range
- Drive our margin ambitions by leading negotiations to deliver significant, measurable cost savings without sacrificing quality
- Develop key supplier relationships, setting the tone for long-term strategic partnerships and managing their holistic performance
- Act as the key commercial partner to our Range team, helping them select the best products by providing market assessments and supplier benchmarks
- Negotiate, implement, and manage comprehensive commercial and operational contracts
- Manage supplier and SKU onboarding, ensuring all new partners and products are commercially vetted, and operationally ready for our supply chain
- Own the responsibility of updating and engaging internal partners, ensuring a “no-surprises” approach to range expansion.
Requirements
- Have 3+ years experience in a procurement, or buying role in FMCG or retail
- Are a Strong Negotiator and Relationship Builder: You excel at developing supplier partnerships and have the commercial acumen to lead negotiations that deliver significant margin improvements and cost savings , ensuring we always achieve the best value without sacrificing quality.
- Work with Agility: You understand the broader business context and can identify problems with requirements up-front to keep the project moving at pace
- Don't Need a Map: You learn quickly and make steady progress without the need for constant, significant feedback from your manager
- Are an Outcome-Driven Specialist: You are capable of prioritizing and avoid getting caught up in unimportant details; you focus on the highest-impact wins
- Enjoy High-Pace Execution: You thrive in a "sprint" environment, where you get things done from start to finish and can be relied upon to manage your time effectively during peak periods.
- Are a Detail-Oriented Onboarder: You have a high bar for quality and a great deal of care, ensuring that every new SKU is operationally ready before it hits our warehouse.
- Are a Self-Sufficient Problem Solver: You rarely make the same mistake twice and can identify potential problems with requirements up-front to keep the project moving.
- Are a Natural Collaborator: You know how to bridge the gap between creative vision and operational reality, identifying and engaging the right stakeholders from day one.
Benefits
- Flexible working & work from abroad
- 25 days holiday + your birthday + flexible bank holidays, & option to buy additional holiday each year
- 1 Volunteering day each year
- Enhanced family leave and a workplace nursery scheme
- A flexible training framework for every stage of your career
- Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions
- Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1
- ClassPass membership: monthly credits to spend on fitness classes, yoga and much more!