Company Description
Are you a commercially minded Buyer with a passion for Outdoor, Hardware or Automotive categories and a sharp eye for customer-relevant products? Do you thrive on collaboration and love building ranges that deliver quality and value? This is your opportunity to step into a role where commercial thinking meets hands-on buying – and make your mark in one of New Zealand’s most iconic retail businesses.
The Warehouse Group (TWG) has become a Kiwi household name, and we proudly recognise the role that we play in communities throughout New Zealand. We are the largest general merchandise retailer in NZ across The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery & Noel Leeming. We are at an exciting point in our journey where our focus is on becoming brand-centric, aiming to deliver an unparalleled experience for our customers. Agility and collaboration are cornerstones of our work culture, empowering us to adapt swiftly and work seamlessly together. By being brand-led and retail-focused, we are intentional about placing the right people in the right roles, allowing us to perform work that truly makes a difference.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Buyer to lead the development of compelling product ranges across our Outdoor category – covering Hardware, Automotive and related areas. This is a unique role with the opportunity to work across both home brand and well-known national and global brands. It’s an exciting, fast-paced area with strategic attention and business focus.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Bringing your hardware or automotive product expertise and customer understanding to the fore, building relevant and appealing ranges that meet Kiwi needs.
- Commercial planning and delivery of activations for new products.
- Deep-diving into sales data, analysing trends, and drawing actionable insights. Regularly reporting findings to stakeholders, providing valuable information that shapes our business strategies.
- Thriving in a cross-functional environment where teamwork is the key to success. Working seamlessly with various departments, from sourcing to marketing, ensuring a cohesive and compelling product offering.
- Actively engaging with sourcing and suppliers to bring the best value and quality to our customers.
Qualifications
Highly commercial, insightful and decisive in your thinking, you are passionate about your craft and have an innate curiosity for ‘how we can do better’ to provide the best products for our customers.
Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills will be essential to unlock collaboration, productivity and speed to market – this is key to our agile way of working! Your drive to contribute whilst taking ownership means you work effectively, both independently and collaboratively to deliver your best work and commercial results for the business.
To be successful for this role you will have:
- Solid category management experience within retail, ideally in Hardware, Outdoor, Automotive or related categories
- Experience developing branded and own brand ranges
- Strong commercial acumen, negotiation and analytical skills
- A customer driven focus
- The ability to trade utilising promotional activity and advertising to maximum effect
- A collaborative working style and excellent communication skills with strong stakeholder management capability
- Decisiveness in a fast-moving environment as well as a resilient and driven nature
- Proven ability to build long-term, sustainable partnerships with suppliers
Additional Information
We offer a dynamic and supportive team environment working with like-minded people within a business that cares about and recognises individuals.
We also offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle and your career which include flexible working arrangements, team member discounts, wellbeing support, leave benefits and more!
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