Buyer

Are you an experienced procurement professional looking for more responsibility and exposure to business critical processes? Are you ready to procure in a competitive market place for a core component of nationally significant company?

You may not have heard of our client, however chances are you have eaten one of the products they have developed and supported. They provide batters, seasonings, coatings and sauces to some of the nations most famous food products and QSR providers.

**What’s the package?**

**Industry matched salary**

**25 days AL plus bank holidays**

**Enhanced pension and other benefits**

**What’s the role?**

Being part of a procurement team with a spend of over £100m and 50 major suppliers you will organise and manage the process to secure a range of flours, starches and fibers.

You’ll manage and implement contracts in multiple regions and sites. Experience of managing contracts in this way is desirable.

You’ll take passion in sourcing food products. As well as experience of sourcing these products you’ll be proactive in identifying market trends and mitigate risk
- these are business critical products

You’ll play a central role in identifying new suppliers and sourcing products, as well as potentially some field work as part of this process. Have you successfully developed new relationships both in the UK and in Europe?

All of this will be backed by sound IT skills, financial acumen and commercial understanding. When you’re procuring £100m of products every 1% counts