Ready to spot the next big thing in pet care?
At Pets at Home, we're always looking ahead. From pet tech and personalised products to exciting brand collaborations and innovative dropship partnerships, we're creating products and experiences that make life better for pets and the people who love them.
We're looking for a commercially curious Buyer to lead our Emerging Categories Accessories portfolio, shaping new opportunities across Dog, Cat and Specialist Pets while driving growth in some of our most exciting and fast-evolving categories.
About the role
This is a unique opportunity to own and grow categories that sit at the forefront of customer trends and innovation. You'll develop strategies, build partnerships and bring new propositions to life across areas including:
As the buying lead for Dropship, you'll define the strategy and work across our specialist buying teams to unlock commercial opportunities, expand customer choice and deliver a seamless customer proposition.
You'll also identify emerging trends, launch innovative products & partnerships, and ensure our accessories ranges continue to excite pet parents while delivering strong commercial performance.
We can offer hybrid working (three office days per week) from our Support Office in Handforth, Cheshire.
What you'll be doing
About you
You'll be an experienced Buyer with strong commercial instincts and a passion for identifying what's next.
We're looking for someone who has:
Why Pets at Home?
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of our Accessories proposition. You'll have the freedom to explore new trends, build exciting partnerships and bring innovative products to market, helping us strengthen our position as the UK's leading pet care business.
If you're a strategic buyer who loves spotting opportunities before anyone else does, we'd love to hear from you!
Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!
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Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.
We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.
Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.
Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!
If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/
