Buyer 
Up to £35,000
Leeds, West Yorkshire

Take the next step in your career and join a company that values innovation, integrity, and excellence. Apply today with Elevation Recruitment Group, United Brands recruitment partner.

As a Buyer here, your primary responsibility will be to build on the existing supplier relationships and source stock from new suppliers & manufacturers of national and international household brands.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially minded Buyer who wants to drive their earning potential by forging long term, commercial relationships and ensure competitive pricing to drive revenue.

A background in Wholesale products like gifting, furnishings, gardening, outdoor, accessories, homeware, seasonal products, or DIY, is essential as this will be a unique role to Buying, taking on a more traditional approach of building new relationships with suppliers to secure supply.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the owners to drive the P&L and own the profit centre.
• Directly reporting into the Owners you'll be an integral part of the business to grow its' product offering to customers and overall turnover.
• Cold calling is a form of sourcing solicitation, new suppliers who've never interacted with the United Brands will be integral to building new product supply. It generally refers to visiting trade fairs & exhibitions, phone-based conversations, networking and meeting sales management with leading brands.
• Full responsibility of key accounts with suppliers from Global supply chains. Developing new and existing relationship
• Interface with Senior Directors to Middle management to secure product.
• Researching and identifying product opportunities across new supply routes to purchase clearance products, partnering with major brand manufacturers for new business.
• Attend Domestic and International exhibitions and trade fairs.
• Seek to drive your relationships with manufacturers and other suppliers of brand products.

Experience & Qualifications Required:

• Experience in stock clearance and/or discount wholesale trade is required.
• Establishing and maintaining progressive relationships with suppliers.
• Be a fantastic communicator with strong interpersonal skills and have the confidence to speak to people at different seniority levels.
• You should understand sales behaviour and be able to consult with suppliers to gain their product at the right price.
• Develop an understanding of how suppliers work in order to determine who the decision-makers are and have the ability to build a successful relationship and value proposition to meet theirs and yours needs.
• Make contact and forming productive and profitable relationships.
• Be a driven, tenuous individual with a will to succeed.

What's On Offer:

• Inclusive of Bonus - realistic first year trading up to £10k Bonus (uncapped bonus structure)
• Expenses
• 28 days holiday inclusive of BH – 9-5 Mon-Thurs, Fri Finish at 4pm on Friday
• Free on-site parking.
• Pension - Nest
• International Travel 

Covering all home categories, including Homeware, DIY & Storage, Garden, Home Fragrance, Gifting, Toiletries & Household, Kitchen, Cookware, Plastics, Prep & Store & many more.

Elevation Recruitment Group are handling all applications for United Brands – please feel free to contact us directly on (phone number removed) or (url removed)