Head of Buying
Getir, Spain

We’re Getir, the pioneers of super-fast delivery. Founded in 2015, we now deliver hundreds of thousands of orders a day from more than 300 locations in the United Kingdom and Turkey. Close your eyes and imagine sandwiches, shampoo, snacks, and paper towels delivered in an average of 10 minutes throughout the streets of Spain and Portugal.

Each product in each delivery creates a unique micro-experience. How we choose these micro-experiences, and how we adapt that to our business model, is an integral part of Getir. At Getir, it is not just our users, but also our employees, our team members, who have unique and challenging experiences that bring out the best of themselves. In that light, we’re looking for a seasoned Head of Buying to join us on this adventure.

• Be the founding member of Getir Iberia’s category management amp; purchasing team, recruiting talented individuals.
• Develop Getir’s product portfolio amp; buying strategy for Iberia. Go down the unconventional way if you believe that’s best for the business.
• Act with the user in mind. First find ways to make the customers happy, then find a way to adapt that to the reality of the business.
• Play the role of the balancer between customer demands and the requirements of the business.
• Lead our categories ranging from fresh to ambient, hygiene to pet care, frozen to hygiene, indirect purchasing to fresh food. If it’s something we buy for users or ourselves, it all flows through your department.
• Establish an overall product portfolio that goes beyond meeting customer expectations, resulting in unexpected customer delight.
• Provide opportunity to up-and-coming suppliers with differentiating products that lead to new micro-experiences for our customers.
• Undertake an incredible financial responsibility, acting as the ultimate decision-maker behind arguably the company’s biggest avenue of spending.
• Allocate significant time to further recruitment and team building. The business will continue to grow, and so will we. Plus, it’s awesome working with awesome people.

Requirements

• Act like the company is yours. We believe that’s a great driving principle.
• Leverage existing rapports with major suppliers. Form rapports with new, up-and-coming suppliers. Startups understand startups.
• Significant experience working with multinational FMCG companies. We won’t put an arbitrary number on it but rather evaluate it candidate by candidate.
• Negotiation skills that not only achieve the best-in-class product margins, but also inspire the rest of the team to continuously become better negotiators.
• We have a strong preference for candidates with experience in fast paced retail environments.
• Ability to learn fast and adapt your strategies and tactics to the dynamic world of super-fast delivery. Super-fast delivery means sometimes doing other things super-fast.
• We still believe in the value of on-site working. Down the line, when safe, we do plan on working collectively in Paris, so a daily commute should be factored in.

Benefits

• A once-in-a-career opportunity to work with one of the fastest growing mobile-commerce businesses in Europe on our startup journey in Iberia.
• The rare chance to work in a vibrant and energising startup culture and develop your commercial skills for the digital future of retail - office with 360 views of Barcelona only a 10 minute walk from the beach.
• Potential for stock options designed to reward your commitment to the growth of Getir.
• Career development opportunities. We really mean it when we say this. Upward and sideways mobility are some of our favourite terms. Our ambitions go beyond Iberia, with our eyes set on becoming an international success story that also enables and fosters stories of success on the individual level.

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