About Us:

WH Smith is a leading global travel retailer with over 1,700 stores across 30 countries worldwide. WHSmith North America, incorporating Marshall Retail Group (MRG) and InMotion, represents over half of the Company’s international store estate, with a collection of attractive, successful specialty retail stores located in airports and resorts across North America.

Marshall Retail Group prides itself on creating unique experiences for customers by developing distinctive retail store concepts that feature and highlight the local culture, community, and lifestyle of the cities in which they are located. InMotion Entertainment Group is the largest airport-based electronics retailer in travel locations globally, with access and insight into the latest technologies for business and leisure travelers, InMotion offers lifestyle products and electronics that include a wide breadth of headphones, mobile power, Bluetooth speakers and travel accessories.

Job Summary: The Buyer of the health & beauty category is responsible for curating the optimum assortment for our customers with responsibility for a category with complexity and scale.

• Deliver and track against Sales and Profit targets
• Ownership of category strategy and autonomy on buying decisions
• Generate a continuous pipeline of value creating initiatives to deliver sales and profitability
• Ownership for department supplier income delivery & responsibility for reporting performance to the DMM
• Manage own category pricing including working with pricing and promotion manager on development of pricing elasticity trials
• Have a long-term supplier strategy in place covering annual deals, payment terms, cost prices, marketing spend & conduct regular grow/hold/decline reviews
• Negotiate with and manage the supplier base, including a clear supplier strategy and the ongoing maintenance/improvement of terms
• Define the pricing and promotional strategy for the category