Senior Buyer – Beers & Minerals (Wine Jobs: Management & Administration)

Full Time

  Amathus Drinks

  London, England

Department: Purchasing
Line Manager: Finance Director & Managing Director
Responsible for: Beers & Minerals
Location: NW10 (but may involve occasional travel, nationally and internationally)

Purpose: To lead and develop your product categories, globally sourcing fantastic products that add value to customers. Working to and achieving defined company objectives, and ensuring effective dynamic purchasing at the highest level. 

Main Functions & Responsibilities: 
The Senior Buyer reports to the MD and is responsible for:

  • The selection and development of all Amathus Group beers and minerals, whether Agencies or non-agencies, for their quality, prices and profitability, marketing budgets and contracts.
  • Managing Beers & Minerals Purchasing Administrator, and working closely with senior buyers for other categories
  • Increasing the % of Agency Profit to the total profit by adding valuable agency products.
  • Negotiating with suppliers, driving cost savings and ensuring market leading supplier terms
  • Forecasting demand and planning procurement accurately and managing buffers within strict par levels across our wholesale, online and retail platforms
  • Routinely testing warehouse stocks for date, rotations and reliability of stock reports, and eliminating out of stocks
  • Overseeing the development of commercial revenue received from all suppliers within your categories and accurately invoicing and collecting retros and commercial income
  • Creating, sourcing products for and executing promotions, off season initiatives and window sales
  • Working with all departments to achieve an increase in stock efficiency across the business
  • Input to the ‘monthly product update letter’ customer communication
  • Continual analysis of KPI benchmarking and performance management of the purchasing administrators reporting to you
  • Continually enhancing market awareness and feeding our market intelligence
  • Ensuring positive and productive relationships with all other departments

How To Apply

If you are interested in applying for any of the roles, please email your CV and a covering letter (stating the role in the subject line) to [email protected]

Unfortunately we are only able to contact those that meet our selection criteria, so if you don’t hear from us please assume you’ve not been successful. If we contact you we will need to verify your right to work in the UK and educational and professional achievements.

No Agencies

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