Assistant Buyer – New Categories

Currys London Campus at Waterloo
Permanent
Full Time
Grade 3

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

Positioned within the commercial team, you’ll be central to a dynamic and fast-moving group as a member of our New Categories squad. Here, you will support launching new technologies and products. You will be responsible for finding appropriate suppliers, selecting and agreeing product ranges, confirming terms and investment into our business. You are accountable for negotiating cost pricing and promotions that allow us to remain competitive for customers while maximising margin and sales and securing adequate differentiation against competitors.

You will need to have great relationship building skills, working closely with our brands, suppliers, go-to-market and operations teams using your influencing skills to secure support to drive the category forward.

Commercial acumen is a must as you will be required to support our analysis of trading performance, providing recommendations of actions to drive our business. Our ideal candidate will be organised with the ability to prioritise their workload whilst maintaining strong attention to detail to ensure everything is right first time.

The role sits within the area of the business that launches product areas that are new to currys, so we are looking for an entrepreneurial self-starter with a passion for new technology and a tenacity to overcome obstacles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Buyer/Senior Buyer with supplier negotiations in line with the category strategy
• Responsible for sourcing and building own ranges, negotiating cost pricing and additional terms
• Agreeing promotional funding support to drive sales while maintaining margin in line with financial objectives
• Monitoring the competition so we can set competitive prices
• Pricing the product range in line with agreed category CPI targets
• Analysing trading performance and recommending actions to drive our business

Required Skills & Experience:

• 1-2 years' experience of being part of a buying function (as an Assistant Buyer or Buying Administrator) and a great working knowledge of technical products
• Excellent communication with great relationship building skills. Capable of working cross functionally to achieve desired results
• To be diligent, organised, with great multitasking abilities
• Robust analytical skills to review data and provide recommendations/actions plans to drive sales, profit and cash
• Strong commercial awareness and a sense of customer needs
• Proficiency in Excel

Why join us:

We know our people are the secret to our success. That's why we're always looking for ways to reward great work. You'll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday entitlement
• Life Assurance
• Staff discounts and offers
• Hybrid Working (minimum 1 day a week in the Waterloo office)

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet. 

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email careers@currys.co.uk and we'll do our best to help.