Buyer - Packaging, Food Manufacturing

7 months ago


Taunton, United Kingdom Mademoiselle Desserts UK Full time

Mademoiselle Desserts is a BCORP company and is a leading supplier of frozen cakes and desserts to the UK Food Service Industry. Operating from three sites across the UK, each with their own unique offering of amazing cakes and desserts Mademoiselle Desserts prides itself on being a great place to work.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Packaging Buyer to join our team based at our site in Taunton as maternity cover. This role will primarily focus on packaging for our frozen cakes and desserts.

There will be some requirement to use your initiative and look at and present on market insights relating to ingredients purchases.

Principal Accountabilities include but are not limited to:

- Supporting the Head of Procurement and Logistics in providing the business with 1st class procurement services
- Liaising between suppliers, internal departments and customers
- Identifying potential new suppliers, visiting existing suppliers, and building and maintaining good relationships
- Negotiating and agreeing new contracts with suppliers, including discount structures and volume rebates and monitor their progress
- Help Mademoiselle reach its decarbonisation targets, by working with our suppliers to reduce carbon emissions.
- Liaising with the planning team and communicating any supply issues
- Forecasting price trends and their impact on future activities
- Giving presentations about market analysis and possible growth
- Developing the businesses procurement strategy in conjunction with the Procurement and Logistics Manager
- Evaluating bids and making recommendations based on commercial and technical factors and insights

Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge
- A CIPs level 3 qualification is desirable
- Minimum of 3 years buying experience, preferably in packaging.
- High Level of competence in the use of MS Excel with experience of using an MRP system.
- Proactive, positive and highly motivated with the drive to succeed as part of a team.

Because recruitment procedures are steps where the search for the right suitability of a profile to a job is essential, no discrimination is made: the strength of our business lies in inclusion, respect for differences and in the diversity of our collaborators. Mademoiselle Desserts is committed to giving equal opportunities to all applicants.

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: £32,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: JM/AP/June24


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