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**Junior Buyer (CIPS Support)**

**Salary between £22,000 - £25,000**

**BBF Limited**

**Blackburn, Lancashire**

**Full-time, Permanent**

Are you ready to kickstart your career in procurement? We're hiring a motivated Junior Buyer to join our dynamic team and grow alongside us

**Who are we looking for?**

As a Junior Buyer, you will play a crucial role in supporting our procurement activities and contribute to the overall success of our organisation.

This position is ideal for individuals who possess some form of commercial experience and have a strong desire to pursue a career in procurement. We are dedicated to your professional growth and will provide support for you to achieve your CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) qualification during your employment with us.

You’ll be joining a strong and experienced team who will be able to mentor and support your development.

We take your learning and development seriously, so from day one, you will be given a personalised development plan that offers a clear roadmap outlining your career path and how we will support you through this.

**The role of a Junior Buyer at BBF**
- Support procurement activities including e-tender RFI generation and e-auction assistance.
- Assist Category Buyers in sourcing raw materials, shadowing their activities, and maintaining supplier relationships.
- Attend NPD and relevant meetings to provide purchasing input.
- Maintain BBF database, contracts, and supplier information on SharePoint.
- Collaborate with the technical team to ensure supplier vendor assurance and scorecard are up to date.
- Manage supplier reports, claims, and purchasing input on SharePoint.
- Maintain ERP system for purchasing data, contracts, pricing, and reporting.
- Provide cross-site functional support to Blackburn, Bradford, and Hull sites.
- Conduct factory/supplier visits for category understanding and relationship-building.
- Assist in compiling monthly reports for Board Reports, covering positions and commodity movements.
- Establish and maintain contract agreements with suppliers for auditing purposes.
- Ensure accurate pricing through internal systems (System 21 and Tropos).
- Act as the primary point of contact for raw material suppliers, managing supply, pricing, innovation, and trials.
- Support Finance by ensuring accurate costing documents for new briefs and addressing price queries.

**Who are BBF Limited?**

BBF Limited are one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.

Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cake, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it

On top of making some really tasty cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.

**What do you get in return?**

Financial
- Salary between £22,000 - £25,000
- Pension
- 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit
- Access to the company Benefits Hub
- Access to ‘Company Shop’ - a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products

Health & Wellbeing
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to meditation and well-being app
- Hybrid & flexible working

Personal & Professional Development
- Your career path with BBF will be set out from day 1, giving you a clear picture of where you’re going
- Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team
- Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

A few other bits
- Free on-site parking
- Free refreshments

**Recruitment Agencies**

We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any other vacancy.