Strategic Sourcing Buyer

5 months ago

High Wycombe, United Kingdom IPC Europe Full time

**Strategic Sourcing Buyer**

**High Wycombe hybrid working *3 days office based**

**The Role**

We have an excellent opportunity for a passionate Strategic Sourcing Buyer to work in our Food and Packaging team on Beverages and Snacks categories reporting to Strategic Sourcing Manager.

The role is complex working across Europe and will be responsible for supporting the Strategic Sourcing Manager with end-to-end strategic sourcing across Europe.

**Accountable For**
- Category Excellence:

- Being the go-to person across the business for category knowledge.
- Fully understanding Micro & Macro influences across global supply chains, and how they influence value chains.
- Proactively adjusting sourcing plans, taking commercial advantage of positive influences along with strong coverage & protection plans when external influences provide headwinds.
- Developing and implementing strategic sourcing strategies with clear action plans, for key categories across the regions, grounded from the businesses requirements and long term growth plans.
- Pro-actively explore opportunities to drive sustainable cost out, through the entire supply chain, improving franchisee profitability and to reduce COGS.
- Supplier Excellence:

- Being the owner of the end-to-end supplier relationship
- Proactively lead & manage key strategic supplier relationships.
- Working with the Supply Chain Supplier Performance Management team (SPM) to review, improve and continuously drive performance around OTIF
- Working with key strategic suppliers and internal cross functional teams to unlock value through the supply chain.
- Risk Excellence:

- Proactively understanding the risks across the supply base.
- Developing contingency plans to avoid, mitigate or face into the various risks across the categories & regions.
- Working with our Enterprise Risk team, to proactively risk review your supply base. Making informed decisions and recommendations to management around acceptable risks or plans to avoid identified risks.
- Proactively working with our legal teams to ensure your suppliers have a fully executed contract covering all aspects of supply with clear KPIs inline with tender awards.

**Our Values**

Our culture and values are at the heart of everything we do at IPC EMEA and are an important part of our hiring process ensuring the new talent into our company understand how we act and support our each other:

- We are empowered - we have the freedom to make a difference together.
- We collaborate - we trust and depend on each other. We contribute. We succeed together.
- We deliver on our commitments - we deliver on our commitments together, individually, today and tomorrow.

**How we support our employees **

Joining a new company can be daunting and at IPC EMEA we work hard to support our employees with
- Onboarding programme
- Time with the senior leadership team as well as your colleagues and our Culture Champions
- Training programmes to develop your skills and our ways of working focussing on feedback and management of work
- Flexible working between the hours 8 am to 6.30 pm we appreciate the juggle of life and home can be challenging and provide opportunities to flex your start and leave times
- Excellent benefits package including - 7% pension contribution, Private Medical, 25 days holiday (which increases after 3 years), salary sacrifice schemes and an annual £250 personal development initiative fund - we also provide breakfast and lunch items in the office
- On site parking
- Volunteer at our nominated charities and in addition you will have 1 volunteer day a year to work with your chosen charity
- Recognition award schemes and a summer and winter event each year

We actively support diversity, equity and inclusion and ensure that our employees are valued and treated with dignity and respect. We encourage everyone in our business to reach their potential

**About us**

Subway® is one of the fastest growing Franchise networks in the world and the largest submarine sandwich chain, with more than 41,500 stores more than 4,800 of which are in Europe.

IPC EMEA, (formally IPC Europe), is a non-profit making organisation owned by Subway Franchisees in Europe. The organisation was established in 2001 to enable Subway Franchisees to benefit from the discounts that come from purchasing and supplying products in large volumes. Over time, the breadth of the services we provide, and our geographic reach has grown.

Our scope now goes beyond purchasing and supply chain management as we seek to have a positive impact on every Franchisees P&L, wherever possible. We work with service providers to offer Franchisees a range of optional services such as Wi-Fi, energy, pest control and card payments. Our aim is to ensure we select the best providers, offering the best quality services at competitive rates.

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