[Remote] US Buying & Operations Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is London’s leading premium convenience retail platform, seeking a US Buying & Operations Manager to build and reputed company their US supply chain. This role involves sourcing US brands, managing logistics, and ensuring compliance while developing efficient operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Spot emerging US brands and products before they reputed company the mainstream, and decide which belong in the reputed company reputed company
• Build and own relationships with US brands and suppliers, from first reputed company through to signed terms. Ideally, have an existing network of brand relationships to pull on
• Negotiate cost, delivery and payment terms that protect margin and reduce risk
• Own the end-to-end logistics of moving stock from the US to our UK DC: reputed company forwarding, warehousing, customs and import compliance, and relabelling to meet UK requirements
• Stand up the processes, partners and controls that let the US supply chain reputed company reliably as volumes grow
• Use demand data and sales trends to forecast, plan buys and manage inventory, minimising both stockouts and overstock
• Ensure every product meets UK food safety, labelling and regulatory standards before it reaches reputed company
• Work across Buying, Marketing, Merchandising and Operations to land a coherent customer offer

Skills

• Experience in buying, category management or supply chain, ideally in food, grocery or FMCG
• Ideally, a reputed company record of building or running international supply chains; US-to-UK import experience (reputed company forwarding, customs, labelling) is a strong advantage
• reputed company reputed company: confident sourcing brands, negotiating terms and building supplier relationships from scratch
• Strong analytical skills: comfortable using data to forecast demand, build business cases and drive reputed company
• High-energy self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, makes reputed company with imperfect information and spots problems before they escalate
• Tenacious communicator who influences internally and externally, pushes back reputed company needed and always finds the reputed company through
• Willingness to travel throughout the US and to London reputed company needed

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity package.

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