Consumer Buyer
Uniphar PLC
Apply to this job CityWest Office Until 9/12/2026 2+ years exp First posted July 14, 2026 Last posted July 14, 2026
Job description
- Development of the commercial strategy for our core Front of Shop categories
- Promotional cycle development for sections
- To represent Consumer team at the weekly trade meetings and to be an active participant.
- Working closely with the Retail and Sales team to source and range best in class products for the market
- Reviewing category performance and providing insights to our management team
- Ensure the roll-out of planograms and associated support documents
- Actively driving cross-selling, working closely with our Operations team
- Responsible for the communication of all commercial strategies to our Operations team
- Developing & managing supplier relationships in order to deliver JBP and planogram compliance
- Use of the BI reporting suite to provide greater insights into category and range performance to help support decision-making.
- To be a representative of the Consumer team at trade shows & supplier events
- Work closely with the Operations team to develop our relationship with our symbol & franchise members to support driving their business.
Day to day responsibilities include:
- Contributing to the day to day running of the Commercial buying team
- Ensuring our group sales, margin & JBP budgets are achieved
- Responsible for stock of our Healthcare categories in owned estate, managing dead/over/dated stock and supporting the stores with sell through as required
- Updating the Commercial Director regularly on department development
- Taking an active role in the weekly commercial team meetings
- Ensuring suppliers are met in a timely manner and prioritized according to importance
- Ensuring all retail pricing is aligned with department margin targets & market pricing on the database
- Ensure database team have all relevant supplier & pricing information for categories
- Building a robust promotions calendar, encompassing JBP agreements
- Development of the category plans & strategies
- Ensuring planograms are updated based on schedule
- Attending trade shows where appropriate
- Contributing relevant information for board packs
- Ensuring strategies are communicated through our channels
- Attending meetings weekly
Key Skills & Experiences
- Minimum 2+ years in a similar buying role
- Pharmacy buying experience desirable
- Excellent numerical & analytical skills to include excellent computer literacy & comprehensive experience with all MS products such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc
- Ability to work in a diverse, fast paced environment
About this role
Summary
Manage product categories, sourcing, supplier relationships, and develop commercial strategies.
Job title
Consumer Buyer
Experience level
2+ years
Minimum experience
2+ years exp
Industry
retail
Location requirements
On-site at CityWest Office, no remote work mentioned
Salary
Not specified
Management role
No
Skills & keywords
Required skills
ExcelPowerPointWordanalytical skillscategory management
Preferred skills
pharmacy buying
Specializations
category managementretail buyingsupplier relationship managementpromotionsmarket analysis
Locations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Unknown location
On-site