Head of Procurement

2 months ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Samworth Brothers Full time

**Join the Samworth Brothers Family**

At Samworth Brothers, we offer competitive benefits to all of our colleagues including:

- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- Private Health Scheme
- Employee Discount Scheme
- Annual Pay Review and Profit related pay
- Training and Progression opportunities

**The Opportunity**

We have the opportunity for you to join our team as Head of Procurement - Operations and Strategy. The purpose of this role is to lead the Business Procurement Team and support the Group Procurement Director and Group Procurement Optimisation Director in the development and delivery of Capability, Systems, Processes, Reporting and Compliance Strategies. Ensure team ownership for the Bakery Procurement Agenda. Ensure the Team plan and deliver the Bakeries Purchase Price Variance and Profit Improvement Plan. Lead Supplier Performance measurement at the Bakeries. Ensure central procurement understand and deliver the strategic and operational needs of the bakeries. Ensure central projects are effectively managed through the bakeries. Supporting the teams with implementing supplier led innovation, complying to group systems and ensuring standardized and robust reporting methods are in place. In this role you will:

- Lead a team ensuring that the business are adhering to the correct supplier selection meeting the necessary business objectives [financial, technical, customer]
- Develop robust, long, medium
- and short-term plans with the procurement leadership team and ensure bakeries provide the group with an accurate financial forecast to enable businesses to forecast effectively.
- Ensure the business procurement managers and procurement coordinators take 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

**The Right Person**

We are one big team, and we look for people to join our business who want to work with others but take responsibility for doing their best every day to help to make the business a success. We also need:

- Experience within a senior procurement role
- CIPS qualification preferred
- Strong leadership skills to effectively manage a team
- 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 the 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

**The Company**

We are a fourth-generation family company employing over 9,000 people in well-invested, modern sites in Leicestershire, Cornwall and elsewhere around the country.

We trace our roots back to 1886 and are a still to this day a family run business producing quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers and our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, West Cornwall Pasty Co. Dickinson & Morris, Walker & Son

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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