L1 Buyer - Frozen Food

We’re Ocado Retail. We’re the people powering Ocado.com, the world’s largest online grocer, and Zoom by Ocado, our almost-as-fast-growing, same-day grocery service. As the world’s biggest and best online-only grocer, we work tirelessly to bring more of what matters to our customers: unbeatable range, fair value, and effortless convenience.

We’re an exceptional and mighty bunch of colleagues who are inspired by our three awesome values: Always be curious, Bring our best selves and Challenge what's possible.
We have ambitious plans and vision to never-stop making our customers' lives better, by delivering the supermarket of tomorrow, today.
About the Role
In this role you will be responsible for Buying and managing categories within the area of Frozen Food, ensuring both the supply base and your product range are optimised, proactively using data and analysis to maximise performance and drive sales, profitability, and share growth, all whilst supporting the overall Ocado Retail strategy.
What you'll do

• Manage the category P&L and deliver against KPIs
• With support, complete category reviews to refine the range and align to the business and category strategy
• Deliver trade, promotions, and events plan
• Identify opportunities to improve all-in margin and, with support, negotiate with suppliers to deliver savings
• With support, negotiate with suppliers to agree and deliver market-leading plans aligned to the customer plan and category strategy
• Analyse and assess performance issues and opportunities using data and reporting tools and, with support, devise and implement solutions
• Identify and analyse potential first-to-market / Ocado exclusive product innovation opportunities using customer, market and supplier insights
• Provide input to support the development of category strategy
• Ensure range changes are aligned to category and business strategy
• Manage and review the performance of the supplier base across small or emerging categories through communicating and developing relationships with suppliers to drive engagement and performance
• Work closely with Supply Chain and the supplier base to ensure best-in-class availability
• With support, identify and create plans to mitigate potential issues/events that may impact the supply
• Work closely with suppliers and the category quality team to ensure product quality remains high
• Adhering to all Ocado policies, storage, and handover protocols and successfully completing all of your training so that you have zero GSCOP breaches. Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

• Entry level buying experience
• Excited about working in retail and commercial functions
• Able to analyse data

• Negotiation skills – Comfortable challenging the status quo and influencing others
• Analytical skills – able to quickly analyse and synthesise information into clear and concise recommendations
• Project Management– Comfortable working to meet tight deadlines whilst balancing multiple priorities and projects
• Results orientated - able to consistently deliver against KPIs within an evolving landscape
• Communication & Influence – Able to write clearly for a range of audiences, and deliver oral and written presentations
• Team Management – Able to work with a range of stakeholders from a broad range of backgrounds, at all levels of the organisation
• Demonstrates ORL’s values

What We Offer You
We want our colleagues to feel supported and secure here at Ocado Retail, which is why we have a great range of useful benefits for them to scoop up - and they’re now available to easily learn about using our new platform ‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’. Our flexible benefits range from tasty lifestyle discounts to trusty private medical insurance.
These benefits can also be customised so you can pick and choose to best suit your lifestyle.

Core Rewards

• Annual bonus scheme - maximum opportunity dependent on the role
• 26 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• Up to 7% matched pension contributions (e.g. 7% from you, 7% from us)
• 50% income protection
• 4x salary life insurance
• 15% Ocado.com discount
• 20% Marks and Spencer discount
• Company-paid private medical insurance for colleagues with the opportunity to add partners/children at corporate rates and Digital GP service
• Hybrid Working (2-3 days a week connecting, collaborating, and learning together with our colleagues)

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Critical Illness
• DigiCare+
• Healthcare Cashplan
• Health Assessment
• Dental Insurance
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Digital GP
• Mental Health

Flexible Benefits

• Tax-efficient electric vehicle leasing scheme
• Access to a retail discount platform, providing discounts and cashback

On-site at Apollo

• Free onsite parking and free shuttle service from Hatfield station
• Regular socials, including Town Halls and Mixers & our ORL Summer Party
• ‘The Fig’ (serving breakfast, snacks, and lunch), coffee cart, as well as small kitchens (with unlimited refreshments and fresh fruit available every day) and vending machines on each floor.
• As part of our inclusive nature, help make change within the business and join any of our Networks

Travel to Apollo

We have free onsite parking at Apollo Court, as well as a free shuttle bus service that runs frequently from Hatfield Station - just remember to tell the driver ‘Apollo Court’ as the shuttle also drops at Ocado Groups Head Office!

Driving: Apollo Court, 2 Bishop Square, Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9NE

Train: Hatfield station is accessible from mainline routes from London Kings Cross, London St Pancras, or Moorgate.
A little bit more about us
Our business is a joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S. It’s a successful combination of award-winning customer service and unrivaled customer data; world-leading technology and logistics from Ocado Group, and unrivaled product development from M&S.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Ocado Retail Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employers are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status
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