Procurement Executive

Overview:
**The Role and Team**

The Procurement Team is responsible for ensuring that the company has a clear strategy when purchasing goods and services.

You will have a passion for purchasing and are looking to move to a large, agile business where we can support your career development. Ideally educated to a degree standard you will have a talent in negotiation with exceptional networking and communication skills.

Reporting to the Senior Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the development of a wide range of indirect category spend throughout the company.

This postion is full-time Monday to Friday. The post holder will be required to work on site at our Trowbridge offices at least 3 days per week.

**Who We Are**

We’re the leading food producer for the health and social care sector, providing delicious, nutritious and sustainable meals for people at home or in care.

We’re also the parent company of Wiltshire Farm Foods, the UK’s premier home-delivery service for ready-made meals.

Through our wide range of well-presented, nutritious meals to suit every taste and dietary need, we aim to make a real difference to lives of elderly and vulnerable people in care.

We’re proud to be a Living Wage employer and member of the Ethical Trading Initiative. We support British food and farming and operate a successful programme of waste reduction and resource efficiency across our whole business.

**Responsibilities**:

- Supporting the development of the indirect procurement strategy across apetito
- Act as procurement lead working in co-operation with cross functional teams in the development and execution of sourcing strategies
- Performing all procurement activities including pre-qualification, negotiating supplier agreements, preparation of contracts and tender management
- Implementation of initiatives, through effective programme and project management.
- Identifying areas for improvement to continually drive performance and business results
- Responsible for supplier performance management and continuous improvement to ensure contracts meet and exceed business objectives of cost, quality and service.
- Compliance to Procurement policies and procedures.

Qualifications:
Experience and qualifications:

- A minimum of 2 years all-rounded Procurement experience
- Proven track record of building effective working relationships with business partners and external stakeholders (suppliers)
- Self-starter, able to manage multiple projects and succeed in a dynamic environment
- Able to demonstrate business acumen and sensitivity to the changes in the external business, economic and people environment
- Strong negotiation skills and understanding of contract requirements
- Experience in procurement policy, procedures, and processes
- Digitally aware, Experience working with procurement tools
- CIPS qualification preferable or a desire to work towards