Junior Buyer - Hand tools and Tool Storage
Junior Buyer - Hand tools and Tool Storage
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Overview
This is a 13 month contract
Were Kingfisher A team made up of over 78000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher and all our other brands: B&Q Screwfix Brico Depot Castorama and Koctas to life. Thats right were big but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And thats where you come in.
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues future colleagues and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status colour ethnic or national origin culture religious belief philosophical belief political opinion disability gender identity gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working both of hours and location. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices located in London Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
Were recruiting for a forwardthinking Junior Buyer (internally known as Junior Product Lead) within the Hand Tools & Workwear team. This role supports development of affordable and sustainable innovation in OEB (Own exclusive Brands) to be more agile in new product development and be more impactful on performance.
Whats the job
- Support the Product Lead to manage all selected OEB projects and ranges from concept and range construction through to delivery
- Identify commercial potential for the OEB range by analysing relevant data trends & industry insights and utilising to create deliver and maintain a more customercentric relevant and rightsized range construction
- Partner with the Product Lead on identifying New Product Development opportunities inputting into eligibility criteria and using the Business direction
- Ensure the Product Lead is kept up to date with current project milestones & KPIs
- Work with the Product Lead to lead a crossfunctional expert team (Sourcing designers engineers Quality Brand Packaging etc. across OEB Range development and validation.
What youll bring
- Previous industry and product knowledge experience within a retail environment with general knowledge of OEB brands and products
- Effectively manage relationships with stakeholders through exceptional communication influence and stakeholder management skills within a complex matrix organisation
- Proven ability to build crossfunctional relationships at all levels
- Ability to analyse multiple commercial and customer insights and draw insight leading to commercial recommendations
- Strong analytical skills to draw insight from a variety of commercial and customer data points and identify trends
Be Customer Focused constantly improving our customers experience
- I listen to my customers
- I use available data to help make decisions
Be Human acting with humanity and care
- I do the right thing
- I am respectful
Be Curious thrive on learning thinking beyond the obvious
- I build and share new ideas
- I try new things and share my learnings
Be Agile working with trust pace and agility
- I have courage to be creative
- Done is better than perfect I aim for 80/20
Be Inclusive acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together
- I embrace allyship
- I have selfawareness and a desire to learn
Be Accountable championing the plan to deliver results and growth
- I own my actions
- I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role
At Kingfisher we value the perspectives that any new team members bring and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100 of the requirements.
In return we offer an inclusive environment where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!
We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.
Interested Great apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
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Required Experience:
Junior IC
Employment Type
Unclear
