Buying Administrator - London
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Buying Administrator
The British Museum Company
Full-time
Permanent
£25,000-£26,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on Saturday 13th September 2025
About the role:
The British Museum Company is responsible for translating the British Museum’s collections into accessible products for the public. This includes developing, producing and retailing merchandise, operating shops, publishing and e-commerce.
The successful Buying Administrator will assist the buying team in implementing the retail buying strategy by managing the efficient development, buying and supply of retail product to maximize sales and customer satisfaction.
Key areas of responsibility (including but not limited to):
- Collate and maintain accurate and up to date data on supplier information and product codes, descriptions, prices, order quantities and delivery notes, communicating any changes to Finance and Retail team. li>Assist the Buyers in finding and developing new museum related and commercial products for core collections and exhibition ranges.
- Keep constant communication with suppliers, the shops, Trade, Web and Goods In departments to provide and to get all the information needed for the smooth running of the buying and stock management process.
- Create and manage photo range plans gathering required information from Buyers and issue these to other departments within the company.
- Use Business Central to perform various functions such as place orders, check sales and stock levels, find vendor information and resolve invoice queries.
- Create and issue critical paths and work with the Buyers to ensure the critical path is met for exhibitions and new range development.
Person Specification:
- Previous retail experience in either Head Office or retail shop required.
- Can demonstrate excellent IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Office and Adobe Suite.
- Must have strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise and multi-task.
- Can demonstrate absolute discretion when dealing with confidential information.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong numeracy skills to understand trading data. manage budgets, analyse stock data, and process financial information accurately.
- Demonstrate strong attention to detail and troubleshoot issues, when they arise.
The British Museum Company is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from unlawful discrimination or harassment. We value the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to a museum which represents world culture. The Museum is committed to ensuring that no job applicant suffers unlawful discrimination because of any protected characteristics. Our recruitment procedures aim to ensure that individuals are treated because of their relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.
We offer a flexible way of working that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits the organisation and them. We would typically see this role as working on site approximately1-2 days a week and the requirement to attend specific Trade Fairs and Supplier visits as required.
The British Museum Company adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) minimum standard requirements for all staff at the British Museum Company.
The Company is committed to equality and diversity; we aim to promote an inclusive culture for all staff.
About the British Museum Company:
The British Museum Company is an equal opportunity employer, supports a diverse
workplace and offers a competitive benefits package including:
- Membership of the workplace pension scheme
- Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions
- Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Professional & personal development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounts on food and gift shop purchases
If this role sounds of interest to you, please visit the website for further information and details on how to apply:
Category Manager - Buying
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Title: Category Manager - Buying
Salary: Up to £65K DOE
Location: London
Work Pattern: Hybrid / 2 days in office - 3 days WFH
This is a brilliant opportunity for a Buying Manager with Fresh Produce experience to shift their career to an entrepreneurial, forward thinking, values-led business with serious growth potential!
We’re working with a fast-growing food business on a mission to do things differently. They’re tackling food waste head-on by partnering with UK growers and getting food into the hands of consumers in smarter, more sustainable ways. And now, they’re looking for a Category Manager to help drive the next stage of growth.
Role responsibilities:
- Take ownership of category reviews, promotional performance and range analysis, delivering actionable insight that shapes strategy.
- Use data (Nielsen, Kantar, IRI, retailer systems) to build compelling stories that land with major UK retailers.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing and NPD to shape innovation pipelines and support sell-in.
- Present confidently to retail partners, championing the category and identifying growth opportunities.
- Play a key part in building a values-led brand with sustainability at its core.
Candidate criteria:
- A proven Category Manager (or strong Exec ready to step up) with Fresh Produce experience. Min 3+ years.
- Strong with data but just as strong in front of customers — articulate, commercial, and able to influence.
- Collaborative by nature, confident presenting, and motivated by working in a purpose-led, fast-paced environment.
Why join?
Here, you’ll actually be making a difference. Working directly with growers, you'll shape partnerships that change how surplus produce reaches consumers. You’ll influence product strategy, innovation and long-term growth — all while contributing to a bigger mission to reduce waste and make a positive impact. If you want variety, visibility and a chance to grow your career with a brand making real noise in the market, this is it.
Interested? Apply now!
If successful, Jordan from MorePeople will be in touch for an initial screening call and manage the process throughout.
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Buying and Materials Programme Manager
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The successful candidate will work closely with Engineering, Operations, and Product teams to industrialise new technologies, establish reliable supplier networks, and shape procurement strategies that support business growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the supply chain function from early product development through to scalable manufacturing.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and partners across a diverse range of industries, ensuring competitive pricing and reliable availability.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to support design for manufacturability and assist in setting up production lines and quality control systems at scale.
- Embed effective engineering and operational practices throughout the organisation, adapting approaches to meet evolving product and business needs.
- Identify and procure components and services that align with technical and commercial requirements.
- Support supplier onboarding and management, including coordination of progress tracking, task handoffs, and overall supplier performance.
- Inform program budgeting by analysing how scope and timelines influence commercial and strategic decisions.
- Manage the “Clear to Build” (CTB) process in coordination with suppliers, contract manufacturers, internal workshops, and stakeholders to ensure a transparent and efficient procurement lifecycle.
- Operate within an Agile development environment, contributing to planning and execution of milestone-driven projects.
- Proven experience bringing new hardware products to production through strategic supplier relationships.
- Strong project or program management experience with the ability to influence across engineering, product, and operations teams.
- Knowledge of cost accounting for manufactured goods and experience negotiating pricing improvements with scale.
- Strong decision-making capabilities across internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success in collaborative development between internal teams and external partners or suppliers.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate trade-offs and decisions to both technical teams and senior leadership.
- Comfortable working in Agile environments with ambitious goals and evolving requirements.
- Experience in the automotive or autonomous systems industry.
- Understanding of international import/export operations and relevant regulations.
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Programmatic Planning and Buying Manager (Outcomes)
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Outcomes offers a guaranteed performance model for digital media buying. Clients pay only on results, rather than ads served, with Outcomes assuming a forward position on the media, de-risking a client’s investment.
Outcomes is a data and technology powered product, leveraging programmatic activation across a full funnel of KPIs from brand awareness guarantees down to lower funnel direct response results; all via an omnichannel approach.
Globally, OMG has placed a greater emphasis on the development of trading products, with Outcomes being a key focus.
The UK is a leading market for Outcomes development. To further our exciting growth ambition, we require an in-house planning and buying team, with a laser-focus on planning to and delivering cost effective guaranteed outcomes for our clients.
The Outcomes UK team sits as a centralised function within the wider OMG Digital team.
This role offers the successful candidate a real opportunity to shape and drive the growth of one of OMG UKs fastest growing specialist services.
Role Summary & Responsibilities
In this newly created role, we are looking for an Outcomes Planning & Buying Manager who will work with our UK agencies and technology partners to provide best-in-class Outcomes brief responses alongside leveraging buying platforms to deliver meaningful and cost-efficient outcomes for our clients.
The core responsibilities are described as follows:
Planning:
- Education and thought leadership across OMG UK agencies, evangelizing the Outcomes capability, building advocacy and understanding of the Outcomes product. In the form of ongoing meetings, workshops presentations.
- Client / agency brief responses , working with Outcomes technology partners to define the best route and plan to delivering a given outcome.
- Building rapport and trust with clients. Whilst the agency will hold the client relationship, there will be opportunity to have direct client conversations.
- Outcomes UK product strategy provision of opinion and ideas to feed into the product development roadmap.
Buying:
- Management of campaigns in DSP (s) Campaign set up as per media plan, pixel generation, trading, optimization and delivery. PG and Deal ID deployment, SPO, performance reporting
- Excellent understanding of digital ad tech platforms that focus on ad server, analytics and attribution services, and how they connect to both programmatic and direct IO display activation.
- Communicate advanced programmatic strategies, bidding mechanisms and levers within a programmatic platform for external and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to challenge and set realistic KPIs for appropriate measurement across multiple DSPs, formats and strategies.
- Promotion of best-in-class output within team across day-to-day activation – including best practice adherence and quality assurance measures.
- Troubleshoot and optimise key performance drivers to remove obstacles to delivery and implement potential solutions across multiple platforms.
- Management of projects to deliver best commercial and client outcome.
Reporting Lines
Day to day this role will report into the Outcomes Director, UK. The role will also involve broad agency contact, working with agency teams to deliver on goals as set out by their clients.
Skills & Experience
- A background in digital media, ideally from a media agency or ad tech business
- Experience in managing junior members
- Approachable and supportive management style
- Strong knowledge of digital ad tech market
- Strong interpersonal, diplomacy and relationship-management skills
- Good at working collaboratively with teams and managing multiple stakeholders
- Good understanding of DSP capabilities, DMP technology and digital ad tech stack
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with ability to manage team to tight deadlines
- Confident speaker able to deliver presentations with a strong and compelling narrative
- Negotiation skills to deliver best commercial value for client
- Advanced analytical skills (i.e. MS Excel VLOOKUPs)
- Experience working with large data sets to identify trends and insights
At OMG, UK we have an underlying belief that our agencies and specialist services should reflect the society in which we live. Be that Age, Disability, Education, Ethnicity, Gender, Gender identity, National Origin, Religion or Sexual Orientation. Simply, we believe that Inclusion and Diversity makes for a more stimulating and inspiring working environment, where people are treated with respect and can be comfortable being themselves. Embracing these different approaches and thinking helps deliver tangible and positive results for us and our clients’ businesses.
We are keen to encourage applicants from people from all walks of life and we want you to be at your best throughout the recruitment process, please discuss any specific adjustments with your Talent Acquisition team member or if you would prefer, please reach out to to just let us know (confidentially) how we can help you.
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