Online Trading Specialist - Food to Order

About The Role

We are looking for a Buyer within our Online Team to deliver the Food to Order category plan on  that attracts and retains customers to drive sales and margin. Manage the Food to Order range, looking to innovate and ensure the range is relevant all year round. Own the relationship with suppliers and find opportunities to increase market share. Interacts with the category trading team to understand Supermarket strategy and adapt to the Online shopper.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for delivering category plan on

• Ownership of sales & margin

• Working with end to end stakeholders both internal and external

• Working in a fast paced and dynamic Online environment

• Build and deliver the customer focused category plan that feeds into the supermarket category plan

• Build a digital plan for your area with marketing and suppliers that drives sales

• Improve margin through pricing, range and promotional tactics

• Drive availability and supplier inbound discussions for your area ensuring customer availability at doorstep

• Liaise with marketing teams to ensure we drive traffic and conversion

• Work collaboratively with the wider Online, Marketing and finance teams to category strategy plan on

• Work with wider Trading, Supply and Logistics teams to improve customer NPS

This role is based at our fantastic head office in Bradford. Boasting an on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company-wide events and promotions. Ideally, applicants will live within a reasonable distance of our office.

We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs.

For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:

• Understanding of website functionality

• Understanding Online Customer Habits

• Category consumer behaviour

• P&L management

• Strong analytical and numerical skills

• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, able to balance weekly trading with long term strategic growth initiatives

• Excellent customer focus and Online competitor awareness

• Negotiation skills

• Experience of working within an e-commerce or commercial trading team

• Proven track record of consistent delivery against set Key Performance Indicators

• Experience of working cross functionally; ability to influence decisions at different level

At Morrisons, we're the single biggest food manufacturer in the UK, and the only retailer to operate our own processing sites. Which means we're not just responsible for keeping our shelves stocked - we need to stock our manufacturing sites, too.

As a true one-of-a-kind business, we curate, arrange and buy everything from raw materials like flour and meat to the products our customers pop in for every day. We negotiate prices and make sure we're able to sell as much as we can. We look at product packaging and quality to help us decide where products will sit in our stores.

And when you remember that each category is worth a percentage of our overall £12billion turnover from supermarket sales alone, the impact of each buying team is huge.

We work in embedded business teams, so our Buyers sit with their supply chain, finance and technical counterparts, working alongside each other to make decisions and take action quickly. We even have joint targets so that we're unified in our mission to serve our customers.

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus 10% for two friends/family members

• Car allowance

• Annual bonus scheme

• Generous holiday entitlement

• Company pension contributions

• Private healthcare

• Perks with over 850 retailers

We're Food makers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. We’re the only UK retailer with our own manufacturing business spread across 18 sites, not to mention nearly 500 stores, we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food, sell it, or join us in our head office, we’d love to meet you…