Are you an experienced Buyer looking for the next step in your career? Or a Buying Manager looking for a new challenge?

We have an excellent opportunity for a Buying Manager within our Food for Now team which is at the forefront of Asda's fresh transformation strategy.  You will be responsible for delivering new and exciting propositions across our partnership portfolio and deliver our transformational cafe strategy which are both imperative to the business strategy of driving partnerships & manage our cafe business.

The Role

This role involves building great relationships with our suppliers but also creating and actively seeking new partners to deliver a proposition that is truly unique within each store.

This is a very exciting, high profile role which will be different from a core day to day trading role. The role will give you a balance of driving sales and profit, whilst allowing you to stretch your strategic thinking and build relationships with teams across the business.

As a Buying Manager you will build strong collaborative relationships internally and externally developing differentiated propositions in each store to create a real point of difference for our customers. An ability to drive and lead the business through a significant amount of change is imperative for this role.

About you

• You'll either be an experienced buyer ready for their next career step or an experienced buying manager ready for a new challenge. 
• demonstrable awareness of customer requirements, market trends and competitor ranges and be able to identify strategic opportunities.
• Strong negotiation skills
• Stakeholder management and relationship building is pivotal to this role.

If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is based at Asda House, Leeds with the opportunity to work from home 2-3 days per week  

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:   

• £5,700 company car or car allowance plus discretionary company bonus  
• Company pension up to 7% matched  
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.  

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.