Junior Buyer

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Ready to fuel the success of globally renowned brands like Gillette, Pampers, Head & Shoulders and Oral-B that millions of consumers can’t live without? Ever dreamt of a career where you are fully supported by world-class training and development to progress to leadership?

We are looking for a passionate early-career talent to join our fast-expanding Brand Building Purchases team at P&G as an Influencer Junior Buyer within our Purchasing department. This is an entry-level opportunity designed for someone who is excited to start their career with P&G and grow through hands-on experience, development, and exposure to a dynamic business environment.

What To Expect:

• Lead strategic and day-to-day sourcing for social influencer management, creator content and agency partnerships, ensuring the best overall value for P&G in line with purchasing strategy.
• Own core purchasing responsibilities including supply assurance, value delivery, policy compliance and supplier performance management.
• Use data, performance results and market insight to identify opportunities, solve business challenges and recommend effective sourcing strategies.
• Partner closely with brand teams to understand business needs, review results, identify improvement opportunities and build action plans that deliver impact.
• Manage key supplier relationships, including negotiations, performance optimisation and compliance requirements such as information security and data privacy.
• Work with P&G brand teams to put the right contracts, KPIs and expectations in place so suppliers deliver high-quality work against clear business goals.

What We Offer You:

• Meaningful work from Day 1: From Day 1, you’ll be working some of the UK’s best loved brands. You’ll be given the space and opportunity to bring your experience, energy, and new perspectives to make a genuine impact right from the start.
• Continuous Development & Empowering Culture: Our culture is built on a foundation of continually developing our people. At P&G, we offer a career, not just a job, and will empower you to become the best at what you do through continuous learning opportunities, a varied career path, and the opportunity to work alongside inspiring people. You will collaborate on impactful projects within a supportive environment where the company values are always embraced and expressed, and diversity is celebrated.
• Flexibility: We operate a flex at work approach, with flexibility built into the role. Our teams spend 3 days of their week collaborating in our offices. This is balanced with 2 of their days spent on focused work which most tend to do from home. Of course, we do a bit of both every day, but we encourage our teams to choose where they work based on the jobs to be done.
• Head Office Location: This role is based in our UK Head Office in Weybridge, Surrey which is an easy commute from London with regular trains from Waterloo and a free shuttle service from the station to the office. There is free on-site parking with access to dedicated electric vehicle charging points. There is also an on-site Costa Coffee, discounted restaurant for breakfast and lunch and a state-of-the-art gym facility.
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits: P&G take a Total Rewards approach meaning on top of your £45,000 starting salary, which will be reviewed annually, you can expect a whole range of benefits. These include a generous Double Match Pension Scheme; Private Medical Insurance; P&G Contributed Share Programme; 25 Days' Holiday, Onsite Gym, and your very own ‘Flex4Me’ Fund which enables you to allocate a portion of your benefits package to the areas that matter most to you.

Job Qualifications

What We Look for:

• Genuine enthusiasm for the consumer goods industry, with curiosity about the trends, creators, products and brands shaping the market.
• Interest in purchasing, commercial decision making and how supplier partnerships can create value for the business.
• Passion for social media, influencer marketing and creator-led content, with a willingness to keep learning as the space evolves.
• Strong analytical capability, this role will require strong business acumen and the ability to drive decision making through data
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to work across brand teams, purchasing colleagues and external suppliers.
• A growth mindset, proactive attitude and willingness to take ownership, ask questions and keep improving.
• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in any field is a plus

Right to work

For our entry-level technical roles such as this one, you will need a continuous, or temporary right to work in the UK. If your current right to work is temporary, or linked to another sponsor, P&G are willing to provide sponsorship from the end of your current permission, subject to meeting all the necessary Home Office requirements. Full details on visa restrictions can be found on the Home Office website and immigration rules are subject to change.

P&G is legally required to ensure all candidates have the right to work in the UK from Day 1 of their employment. All applicants will therefore be asked to provide evidence of their right to work at the conclusion of the recruitment process as a condition of employment.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. At P&G we strive to build a culture where everyone feels welcome, included and able to bring their full selves to work.

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