Job Description

Job Locations UK-Southampton
Entity
Offer & Sourcing, Supply & Logistics
ID
2025-115906
Category
Sourcing
Type
Full Time
Contract
Permanent
Hours Per Week
36.25

Overview

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We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 76,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.We are open to flexible and agile working. Talk to us about how we can best support you! Working closely with the category team, to define the sourcing needs and build sourcing strategy with the objective of lowering costs and developing operational excellence. You will evolve mainly in multi footprint environment insuring the check and balance between our banners.

This role sits within the Range team reporting to the Category Director. It leads Offer trading for a specific OEB category. Seeks to achieve efficient trading outcomes for the nominated category.

What's the job?

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Management of OEB trading for a specific category. Through communication between the O&S Range team and the Banner teams, identifying the opportunity and crafting the action plan to achieve it. Working with the Cat Director on the creation and management of the OEB 3-5-year Strategic plan. Reporting on the progress as required, running any remedial actions vital and updating the plan each year towards the longer term. Works with other Category Trading Managers, develops the Group OEB Trading Guidelines and framework. Manages the process for the creation of Special Buy offers by the category team via the Sourcing offices and the presentation and adoption of these products into the Banner Trading Plan. Creation of the trading plan for each Category to feed into the Group OEB Trading Plan. (There is also a requirement to liaise closely with each Banner Market Director for this) Track and analyse the OEB range performance, sharing insights and issues with Category and Marketing Trading Leads and follows-through until resolution Supports Head of to analyse Business Performance and handles communication of actions through Product Leads Actively participates in the Monthly Business Review

What you'll bring

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