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1 month ago


Kent, United Kingdom Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Full time

**Assistant Procurement Manager**

**Competitive Salary - DOE**

**Mid Kent**

Fantastic opportunity to join an established and successful FMCG business as Assistant Procurement Manager. The purpose of this role is to support the strategic management of commodity purchases as well as other goods and services through effective planning, supplier management and negotiation. This is a highly analytical position requiring the ability to monitor a range of metrics and insights in order to effectively identify the most profitable actions to take.

**Duties include**:

- Provide timely and accurate information / data to support the development of the procurement strategy.
- Manage and develop supplier relationships and ongoing negotiations - annual contract negotiations etc.
- Track / assess customer profitability.
- Advise the business on product costs.
- Extensive monitoring of stock levels, order progressions and usage to ensure material is available when required.
- Support storage planning and third-party raw material warehousing.
- Provide analytic analysis, including cashflow, currency exposure etc.
- Assess the risks and benefits of terms and conditions, advising the Business.
- Other projects and such tasks as and when required.

**To be successful, you will be/have**:

- A degree at 1:1 or 2:1 level in an analytical or business-related degree
- A desire to develop your career within Supply Chain, with some experience in a relevant Supply Chain related role
- Strong Excel skills
- Flexible, reliable, and ambitious
- Commercially astute, with the ability to analyse, find and present solutions.
- An excellent communicator with first rate interpersonal skills

This is a fantastic role with lots of progression opportunities, good training, and a competitive salary.
- This role is being handled by Holly Ensoll, Business Support Consultant for Pearson Whiffin Recruitment._

Not quite the right role but still looking?
- By working with us, you will be helping support charities across Kent; we have raised over £50,000 so far_

**Supply Chain / Stock / Inventory**:
**Mid Kent**:


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