Group Buyer

**Location**:_Cardiff - Hybrid working available_**

**Shift**:_Weekdays _**

**Salary**:_Competitive with Opportunity for Growth_**

We have an opportunity for a Group Buyer to join our Purchasing Team.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

As Group Buyer, you will be involved in various categories of indirect purchasing in order to successfully deliver sourcing benefits within an autonomous role remit.

To be successful in this this role, you will have worked in a similar Buyer position with previous experience in the full lifecycle Contract Management. This is a fast paced role, therefore a strong strategic sourcing and procurement background is essential, you must be Financially aware, commercially minded and able to effectively manage costs. You will be required to develop expertise within the organisation around specific supply markets, as well as technological and economic changes that impact those markets. You will create and implement sourcing strategies in line with group procurement objectives.

This role is based at our Cardiff site with hybrid working of 2/3 days as an option. On occasion you will be required to attend one of our other sites for meetings which could be weekly or monthly, depending on the requirement. Therefore willingness to travel is essential.

This is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses. You’ll work closely with a friendly and engaging team from both a site and group perspective, offering opportunities for growth and long-term career development.

**This is what you’ll actually do**

As the Group Buyer role you'll work closely with the wider group purchasing team along with internal stakeholders and external third parties and continuously seeks to improve and deliver value to the function and the wider business. You'll ensure the function is perceived as a positive, significant, value adding partner to the business.

You will also be involved in leading the procurement activities of a wide range of contracts, working collaboratively with key internal stakeholders to determine and deliver the Procurement and Supply Chain strategy. Along with managing suppliers and external stakeholders in the delivery of best value and lowest risk solutions to meet the needs of the business.

As the Group Buyer you'll be responsible for monitoring and reviewing performance to budget, identifying opportunities for greater efficiencies, improved terms and value add activity. You will develop closer collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally to identify and drive continuous improvement activity and support the business long term strategy.

**Ideally this is you**
- Experience in a similar Buyer position, ideally with experience of Indirect category management
- Full Lifecycle Contract Management - Monitoring and reviewing performance to budget, identifying opportunities for greater efficiencies, improved terms and value add activity
- Competency demonstrated by a formal technical qualification combined with good education standards/industry experience and knowledge
- Demonstrated success in delivering significant cost savings on a year over year basis
- Developing closer collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally to identify and drive continuous improvement activity and support the business long term strategy
- Financially aware, numerate, commercially minded and able to effectively manage costs

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more