Group Buyer H/F

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

6/25/2025

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 76,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Talk to us about how we can best support you! Working closely with the category team, to define the sourcing needs and build sourcing strategy with the objective of lowering costs and developing operational excellence. You will evolve mainly in multi footprint environment insuring the check and balance between our banners.

What's the job?

• Collaborate with the product and banner teams to understand needs and deliver planned projects (range reviews, fixes and trade, sourcing 2.0 etc)
• Partner with Range, Supply Chain, Quality, and Product Development teams to align on the Own Exclusive Brand (OEB) vision and ensure its effective execution through sourcing strategies.
• Support delivery of Sales and margin growth and identify and deliver vendor cost improvement whilst coordinating vendor support activity across other functions
• Analyse breakdown of product’s components and ways of driving value through strategic sourcing
• Define the right mix of vendors working with supply chain to best routes to market whilst coordinating and handle tenders and take lead in face to face negotiations where appropriate
• Shortlist factories / vendors – working with the sourcing offices using common scorecard and assessing holistically vendor capability and end 2 end benefits
• Analyse date to identify the mist cost-effective suppliers and align the vendor base for optimal efficiency and risk management
• Define with Sourcing Offices where the right suppliers are in order to be able to guarantee the right quality and quantities for the Group
• Work/negotiate with suppliers to ensure the most competitive commercial terms for Kingfisher
• Provide sourcing strategies aligned to product and banner activities on a rolling 3 to 5-year plan.
• Identify the needs for new sourcing / vendor discovery. Provide the sourcing priorities to buying offices
• Develop footprint diversification strategy to ensure supply chain security
• You’re the link between range and buying offices. You ensure a smooth and efficient communication with stakeholder. You will engage banners / range with your sourcing strategies.
• Give an insight to you plan in term of footprint evolution, vendor allocation and dependencies.
  
  

What You'll Bring

• Sourcing Black Belt internal certification or sourcing academy / experience
• Experience in buying / sourcing and good understanding of ‘design to cost’
• Understanding of factory and manufacturing process
• Understanding category ranges (desirable)
• Fluent English essential
• Works as One Team - Respects and co-operates with the team, sharing problems and accepting support. Adopts a friendly and approachable manner; shows tolerance and consideration of others.
• Communicates effectively - clearly and concisely and considers the needs and feelings of others, uses language and phrases which are appropriate and familiar to others, checks understanding with others by asking questions
  
  

Be Customer Focused – Constantly Improving Our Customers’ Experience

• I listen to my customers
• I use available data to help make decisions
  
  

Be Human – acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing
• I am respectful
  
  

Be Curious – thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas
• I try new things and share my learnings
  
  

Be Agile – working with trust, pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative
• Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20
  
  

Be Inclusive – acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship
• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn
  
  

Be Accountable – championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions
• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role
  
  

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.