Westmorland Family Office
Buying
£26,000 per annum
37.5 hours per week
Full Time

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About The Role
We have a really exciting opportunity for an Assistant Buyer to join our buying team, based at our Family Office in the Rheged Centre in Penrith. This role will support the Senior Buyer to curate the product selection in the Farmshops of the award winning Westmorland Services - Tebay, Gloucester and Cairn Lodge.

Working as part of the Farmshop Buying Team you will support with the day to day needs of the business as well as longer term projects. Tasks will range from resolving invoice discrepancies to bringing on board new suppliers and everything in between, including;
- Being responsible for nurturing new suppliers and/or ranges from launch until the first three monthly review, with regards to sales, margin, and operational issues.
- Working alongside the Visual Merchandiser to help assist the creation and launch of planograms for each site and work with operations to maintain these.
- Maintaining the supplier database, helping prepare seasonal strategies and presentations, researching new suppliers and keeping track of market trends.
- Managing ongoing communications with suppliers on product details and changes. You will organise promotional cycles working with suppliers, brand and operations. Then communicating with the buyer to authorise the changes.
- Reporting on commercial performance, building and running reports, seasonally, quarterly or weekly depending on the needs of the buyer.
- Undertaking analysis of sales, margin and fixture performance for each given range review. Helping to prepare seasonal strategies and presentations. Produce a product timeline for each season (Easter, Summer, Christmas) and weekly timeline to launch.
About You
We are looking for someone with experience of working in a relevant role who is proficient in all aspects of Microsoft Office who can multitask effectively and has the confidence and ability to show initiative.

You will need to be highly organised and an excellent communicator to be able to collaborate with both external suppliers and our internal team members at all levels.

You will need to have some analytical and numerical capability as ell as knowledge of working with margins and sales reports.
About Us
At Westmorland we are family business that started in 1972 from our farm in Cumbria, which runs unique motorway service areas – Tebay, Gloucester and Cairn Lodge – based on no franchises but instead our own Farmshops and Kitchens. We also have Junction 38, a services dedicated to HGV drivers, Rheged, a meeting place, Cafe, Gallery and Cinema, and the Westmorland Hotel situated on the edge of the Lake District.

We are proud to be connected to our place and that our family of colleagues share our values of Warmth, Graft and Courage. If you join our family it will be hard work at times but we offer a great range of benefits including generous discounts in our farmshops and kitchens, free meals when working on shift, generous holiday entitlements plus a paid day off for your birthday and more.