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Assistant Category Manager

£competitive plus benefits

Northampton, Northamptonshire

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Do you relish the challenge of driving sustainable profitable sales and putting customers and branches at the heart of everything you do? Do you demonstrate winning behaviours? If so, then now is a great time to join the UK’s biggest Builders Merchants. One year into a new strategy and change programme and we are already seeing the impact through our consistent market share growth. We now have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and innovative Assistant Buyer to join our Commercial team based in Northampton.

At Travis Perkins, 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.

What you’ll do

Reporting into a Category Manager, you will have full accountability for the end-to-end category and customer proposition, fully supported by your line manager. Centred around our customer strategy, you will help to find and work with the best suppliers at the best prices, and build and maintain fantastic relationships with our branches, providing them with the service that they need to win.  

Is this you?

You may currently already work for us within a branch or wider team throughout the business, and looking for the opportunity to step 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 Travis Perkins 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 10 businesses, 20,000 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! 

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