Junior Category Buyer

5 days ago

Bicester, United Kingdom The Menu Partners Full time

The Menu Partners is a diverse food business supplying hotels, pubs and restaurants up and down the UK with whole, prepared or cooked food. Within our group of businesses, we also have Absolute Taste, a leading event catering company, Absolute Taste Inflight our Private Jet catering business along with two farm shops, a pub and so much more.

Come and join an exciting company which is expanding very quickly and looking for the right people to come and join our teams. In return, we develop individuals to be the best they can be and help them along their career paths.

The Menu Partners Ltd are looking for a **Junior Category Buyer** to join our team.

**JOB SUMMARY - Junior Category Buyer**

A great opportunity has arisen for an ambitious, commercially driven Junior Category Buyer with experience in category procurement, to join our team.

You will be instrumental in the development of the Seafood category for The Menu Partners, you will develop your knowledge, your portfolio and negotiate commercial opportunities with suppliers and work with other departments to drive customer satisfaction across the business.

As the Junior Category Buyer, you will be working alongside the existing buying team and reporting to the Head of Procurement. You will get involved in a variety of projects and contribute directly to driving the overall success of the business.

This is a role critical to the growth and development of the business. You'll be working within a small, high performance buying team based in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

This is a development opportunity within a category which is forecasted to grow within the next few years. We will support you and provide necessary development to aide your growth of owning fully your category.

**KEY DIMENSIONS**
- Your role will be key within the development of commercially competitive portfolio of products.
- Take ownership of the end-to-end sourcing process.
- Effectively liaise with suppliers on range development and commercial terms.
- Working with sales teams to facilitate the company budgeted sales and margin targets.
- Support inventory buying and stock control teams.
- Produce detailed, informative, market information to support sales teams and customers.
- Set clear savings plans with objectives, goals, strategies, and measures.
- Provide regular updates to the Head of Procurement on progress, opportunities, and roadblocks.
- Partner Head of Procurement to develop a world class procurement team.
- Shielding the business against cost inflation.
- Ensuring effective cross functional communication.

**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**

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Ideally, you will be experienced in buying/procurement within the food and beverage industry.

You will have a good knowledge of the sectors diverse products and supply chain, with appreciation for what is required to be a success in the Hospitality sector.

The key qualities required to perform the role successfully include:

- Product & Industry knowledge
- Enthusiastic and committed attitude
- Agile thinker
- Develop and conclude substantial agreements
- Effective communication skill
- Project management capability
- Ability to work at pace

**COMPETENCIES**:

- Excellent numeracy skills
- Competent IT skills (Excel, Word, power point)
- Appreciation of product technical requirements
- Good presentation skills
- Effective time management
- Ability to identity commercial opportunities

Office 5 days a week. Salary up to £40,000
- The above list is not exhaustive of all duties and responsibilities.

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