Head of Procurement

7 months ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Samworth Brothers Full time

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**
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At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Competitive package
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

We have the opportunity for you to join our Group Procurement team as a Head of Procurement, reporting to the Group Procurement Director and a member of the Procurement Leadership Team. Your primary responsibility will be for the procurement of a range of raw materials across the Samworth Brothers Group, leading a team of Category managers and buyers, Business Procurement team and Subject Matter Expert (SME).

The secondary responsibility of the role is representing procurement as a key member on the Leadership Team for one of the 4 main category businesses. This element of the role is crucial to drive strong engagement between Group Procurement and the businesses, ensuring team ownership for the business procurement agenda, including delivery of the Profit Improvement Plan.

In this role you will:

- Lead a team ensuring that the business is adhering to the correct supplier selection meeting the necessary business objectives -financial, quality, technical, customer.
- Develop robust, long, medium
- and short-term category plans and strategies to deliver across all measures (cost, value, sustainability, quality, innovation, efficiency, risk management etc.)
- Lead engagement with key suppliers to drive performance and develop strong relationships.
- Ensure the business procurement team takes ownership of implementing and maintaining group contracts, systems and processes keeping all key stakeholders abreast of key developments or challenges where appropriate.
- Coach, train and motivate direct reports to ensure individuals are stretched to their full potential
- 5+ years’ experience within a senior procurement role, ideally in chilled food.
- Strong leadership and influencing skills.
- Operating in a Group role within a matrix structure.
- Effective management and development of teams.
- Track record of delivering change and developing systems and processes.
- Track record of financial delivery within a business.
- To be able to influence stakeholders at all levels, including customers.
- Need to demonstrate the ability to deliver the highest performance standards for self and team.
- The ability to make difficult decisions and to take a calm & measured approach in an often pressured environment which often involves working to tight deadlines to overcome and achieve results.
- Willingness to travel, extensively within the UK, with occasional overseas.
- Full driving license.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._

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