My client is an award-winning business looking to recruit a Buyer to join the team. Reporting to the Procurement Manager, this is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong procurement experience within food, retail or foodservice.
Role:
- To improve commercial value within the supply chain reviewing a range of food and non-food categories
- Execute a range of strategies to review an agreed range of categories
- Analyse spend data from various data sources as required
- Use best in class procurement skills and systems to negotiate commercial value and exceed budgeted targets
- Build supplier relationships to develop supply chain performance for both contracted and sub-contractor provision
- Develop stakeholder engagement across the business and supplier base aligned
- Promote and drive sustainable supply chain initiatives and targets
Responsibilities:
- Support the overall business growth strategy
- Build collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders across our teams to ensure the procurement function meets the objectives of teams and support functions
- Support the procurement function to manage supplier performance, developing relationships to ensure a sustainable supply chain across the business
- Use MI, data analysis and in-sight from our ERP and business specific platforms to leverage commercial and efficiency savings for in-year and annualised savings targets
- Create value optimisation on sourcing activity plans utilising SRM and ecommerce portals
- Mitigate risk within the supply chain through supplier audit activity and Business Continuity Plans
- Compliance with procurement policy, processes and procedures
- Support client and bid pipeline, implementing procurement initiatives from initial bid stage onwards
Candidate
- Demonstrable sourcing and category buying experience, ideally within the food, foodservice or retail supply chain markets
- Commercial acumen in line with business scale and spend
- Proven, solid influencing and negotiation skills
- Stakeholder management and personal development experience
- First class personal, written and verbal communication skills
- Experienced analytical skills, ideally aligned to e-commerce experience and knowledge
- On trend with market insight and developing food trends across a range of sectors
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