Assistant Buyer

Buyer in the Wine Department 

Maternity cover up to 12 months

36.25 hours per week over 5 days.

What do you need to know about Adnams?

Not only do we make amazing award winning beers and spirits from our home in Southwold, we also have an extensive range of wines which we sell not only online but in our lovely shops across the region and sell in our stunning pubs and hotels.

Our small but perfectly formed buying team understand the value of every supplier and customer and work hard to maintain these relationships.

We offer an excellent package for our Wine Buyer including -

Competitive Salary

Company Pension

Life Assurance

Share Incentive Plan

33 days holiday

Career Development Opportunities

Wellbeing Programmes

Fabulous employee discounts!

What do we want?

We are looking for maternity leave cover for a buyer in our wine department. You will work closely with our Head of Wine on range reviews and category development.

There will be occasions where you will attend supplier visits in the UK and overseas.   

Analyzing data is important in this role, we utilize systems such as Power BI and JDE and experience with those is advantageous. You will be required to have a comprehensive understanding of wine and an ability to manage and maintain data. The ability to identify market/seasonal trends/potential upcoming shortages/cost savings and commercial opportunities. You will identify poor performing lines whilst paying attention to product lifecycle.

You will create design briefs and work with our design team on packaging to ensure the wine fits within the category and has all legal mandatories.

Other responsibilities of this role will be quality controlling products to ensure wine is in spec, managing reporting and responding to any customer complaints with regards to the safety of the product and creating a monthly internal wine newsletter.

You will embrace every opportunity to manage relationships with existing suppliers and some that have been supplying Adnams for several generations. Your previous experience of building strong relationships will enable you to seek new suppliers for products for both our retail division and also trade sales. 

The successful candidate will hold a minimum WSET Level 2 qualification and have at least 5 years industry experience in the on or off trade. We are open minded to a candidate with less experience but with a can-do attitude and willingness to learn. It is vital that you are computer literate and proficient in the use of Excel and PowerPoint.

What's in it for you?

Hopefully a sense of pride that you are working for a business that cares about the important stuff and a lot of fun working with an amazing bunch of people. Enthusiastic and hard-working people who join Adnams tend to stay around so we must get quite a lot of things right. We really admire innovation and are not afraid to try something new so you get to put new ideas into practice and feel really smug when they deliver even better results for everyone.