About the Role Would you like to join a local business that will invest in you and your career?
Weldricks Pharmacy has an opportunity for a Buyer to join our Buying Team in our Head Office based in Doncaster. Full system training provided by helpful and supportive colleagues.
This is a full-time permanent position working 37.5 hours per week with a salary up to £25,000.
Working days are Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm.
Job Opportunity Reporting to the Head of Buying we are looking for:
· Maintaining great relationships with a group of suppliers.
· Sourcing, purchasing and managing stocks of our core lines.
· Driving profitability through margin management.
· Arranging and seeing through customer promotions.
· Adhering to GDP processes.
Essential Skills As our Buyer, you will possess the following qualities:
· Excellent communication skills
· Strong negotiation skills
· High level of organisational skills
· Proficiency in Excel
· Right to Work in the UK
About Company HI Weldrick Ltd (trading as Weldricks Pharmacy) have a pharmacy tradition dating back to the 1930s when our late founder’s grandmother opened her first pharmacy in Doncaster Town Centre. Remaining true to his vision our business remains 100% family owned.
With a commitment to community healthcare we have steadily grown to 63 pharmacies, still concentrated in South Yorkshire with over 600 trained staff including over 80 pharmacists, 9 of who are clinical pharmacists. We have had an internet presence since 1998.
Our ongoing commitment to staff development ensures the Weldricks team are able to provide exceptional healthcare advice and service both to our local and online communities. While our aim is not to make any mistakes we recognise they will happen occasionally. When they do we commit to communicate with our customer, do our best to put the problem right, then identify the cause of the error and learn from it.
Listing over 8,000 health and beauty products and prescription medicines, it is our aim to meet your needs in a professional manner.
Our on-line service is supervised by fully qualified pharmacists and technicians . All medicine sales are authorised and checked before being dispatched to you. If necessary, we may contact you to ask further questions and ensure that the medicine is suitable for you. Our on-line customer service team are available to give professional healthcare advice in a confidential environment either by email or telephone.
DE&I HI Weldrick Ltd, is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
It is the policy of HI Weldrick Ltd to ensure that, in access to employment management, training and planning, all persons are afforded equal opportunities. Employees or applicants will not receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief nor placed at a disadvantage by imposed conditions or requirements which cannot be justified.
It is the Company’s policy to recruit the best person for each vacancy regardless of sex, race, creed, age or disability. Wherever possible existing employees will be invited to apply for promotion.
The Company undertakes to regularly monitor the effectiveness of its Equal Opportunities Policy. Any complaints of discrimination, harassment or victimisation will be treated seriously and dealt with through the Company’s Grievance procedure.