Assistant Buyer - Trainee Buyer

Are you looking to thrive in a commercial environment and enjoy negotiating with suppliers? Do you relish the challenge of driving sustainable profitable sales and putting customers and branches at the heart of everything you do? Do you have great attention to detail, an ability to multitask and enjoy problem solving? If the answer is yes then Keyline are currently recruiting for an Assistant Category Manager to join their team.

Our mission is simply to be the best builders merchants in town. We operate in an ever-changing and highly competitive market and have over 200 year’s heritage behind us, and we continue to grow and adapt in order to win.Come and realise your potential with a company built on great people and the very best products.

What you’ll do

We have a fantastic opportunity to join the commercial team as an Assistant Category Manager.  This is your opportunity to develop your career, you may have recently graduated having studied a procurement degree, have experience within a buyer position and looking to develop your career.

You’ll own the customer proposition, you will drive innovation of new products, influence the trading margin and mix - and support the wider Commercial Strategy in growing and managing our product base and business performance whilst building and maintaining fantastic relationships with our branches, providing them with the service that they need to win.  

Along with the above you will...

- Review trading performance, identifying areas of concern / opportunity and taking appropriate action in line with the category role and intent

- Deliver category pricing and range reviews to optimise category performance

- Define the supply base strategy and management of supplier relationships, to maximise return

- Lead  the negotiation of key supplier trading agreements

- Develop cross-functional and TP Group collaborative relationships across all brands

Is this you?

You may currently already work for us within Commercial or a branch, and are looking for the opportunity to step up or into a new role and develop your skills. We’ll need you to have excellent negotiation and influencing skills along with a strong commercial mind and an instinct for a deal. You’ll be working closely with our suppliers, branches and sales teams, so we’ll need you to utilise your great communication skills and ability to influence. Most importantly, we’re looking for someone to show passion and ambition to ensure we are getting the best deals for our customers, always.

Life at Keyline is a fast paced environment and can be pressurised at times; however, if having an active role in a challenging business and being part of a dynamic team is what drives and motivates you then we would love to hear from you.

If you don’t have all the experience required we can put you through an apprenticeship to support you!

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

 * Competitive performance related bonus

 * Save-as-you-earn scheme

 * Buy-as-you-earn scheme

 * Contributory pension scheme

 * Colleague discount 

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,700 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves.

You be you, it makes us, us.