Team Food
Store London Support Office
Location: London, Greater London
Contract type: Permanent
Position type: Full Time
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Closing date: 2nd May 2025
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How We Hire
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
About The Role
This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.
Summary
M&S Food is changing, and fast! We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business. From Percy Pig to the freshest M&S Select Farms produce, we grow, source, and develop our own products to give our customers family-ready food that's unbeatable on flavour and innovation.
We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food… This is M&S Food.
Are you ready to sweeten your career with a new challenge? Join our team as Buyers and Senior Buyers across multiple food categories, including Cake, Ready Meals, Wine, Prep Veg, Healthy & Asian, Desserts, Ambient Celebration, Deli, Prep Salads, and Sourcing Specialist! This is a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with some of the best suppliers and bakeries at an exciting time in our business growth.
As a Buyer or Senior Buyer, you will collaborate with some of the best suppliers in the UK and Europe, sourcing and selecting products that ensure our ranges are diverse, competitive, and of the highest quality. You’ll build and maintain strong relationships with these suppliers, negotiating to achieve the best value while upholding our reputation for excellence. Working closely with our supply chain, marketing, range & display, and store operations teams, you’ll ensure successful launches and promotions of products that excite and inspire our customers.
If you have a passion for retail and delectable treats, a keen eye for quality, and excellent negotiation skills, we would love to hear from you! Join us and be a part of a team that values innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction.
What’s in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever-evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, and service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Your Key Accountabilities
* Drive sales and profit in line with operating plan budgets
* Drive market share performance
* Lead relationship with suppliers through effective commercial management
* Prepare and agree category plan with Management Team through analysis of customer insight, sales and trends
* Set effective range strategies to optimise selling format and product choice, understanding space requirements
Your Skills And Experience Will Include
* Decision making
* Commercial savvy and negotiation skills
* Strong communication and influencing skills
* Analysis of commercial and customer information to seize & deliver commercial opportunities
* Team working
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
How to Apply
Here’s what to expect at each stage of the application process. This can change depending on the role you’ve applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments made at any stage, let us know and we can help.
* Send us your application: Fill in our short application form and hit submit.
* Online assessment: We’ll invite you to take part in an online assessment. This could be before or after your interview.
* In-person assessment centre: We’ll invite you to an in-person assessment centre for an interview. This process may differ depending on the role you’ve applied to.
* Decision: After we’ve decided, we’ll be in touch. If you’ve been successful, we’ll officially invite you to join the team and let you know the next steps.
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