Business Development - you won’t be afraid to pick up the phone and build new connections to develop partnerships across all food categories and suppliers, Account Management - you’ll continually look for ways to drive existing partnerships forward, always with the mission and customer in mind, Strategic planning - you will map a pipeline for a specific set of categories, including full stakeholder mapping, analyses of potential supplier partners and analysis of market opportunity sizing., Responsibility for initiating, developing and analysing strategic trials to further understand our consumer profiles and routes to driving greater profitability, Portfolio management - you will be negotiating daily with our suppliers to achieve the best prices and ranges, buying products that will surprise and delight our customers, Delivery of P&L targets through balancing risk and spend, tracking all expenditures against monthly projections, Contributing to and ensuring the rollout of segment strategy plans, Balance and deliver to an agreed margin target across a range of suppliers and product, Source new suppliers, develop existing relationships and continually review pricing and range in order to deliver both profit and customer experience, Proactively manage your supplier portfolio - instigate and deliver weekly, quarterly and annual business review meetings to continually deliver added value to your suppliers, Make timely, data driven decisions on inventory and proposed stock holdings, Work in close collaboration with demand planning and forecasting to capitalise on trends, tracking and reporting any opportunities and challenges, Drive growth with partners, through new product categories, international relationships and greater volumes, Adhere to and input into the evolution of current SOPs and strategies. Ensure all documentation processes are followed and that information is delivered to the appropriate departments after purchase.