Fresh Produce Sourcing Manager

6 days ago


St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Talent Drive | B Corp™ Full time

Job Summary:

Talent Drive | B Corp™ is pleased to be supporting an excellent opportunity working with a family-owned food service business that is going from strength to strength and has exciting growth plans. This business is a leader within the Fresh Produce space and due to recent success is expanding its team to hire two Category Buyers.

About the Role:

As a Category Buyer for Fresh Produce, you will be part of the team responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and purchasing fresh produce for the organization. You will be tasked with developing category strategies for the allocated categories within the overall fresh produce category.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Finding potential suppliers, visiting, and meeting existing suppliers, building, and maintaining relationships.
  • Negotiating best prices on key product categories ensuring quality and technical requirements are met.
  • Managing supplier relationships both domestically and internationally.
  • Managing key internal relationships with supply chain, sales, operations, logistics, and quality teams.
  • Communicating with suppliers to ensure delivery requirements are met.
  • Researching and sourcing new products.
  • Ensuring supplier performance is managed to meet requirements.
  • Supporting sales and NPD (New Product Development) activities.

Requirements:

  • Previous fresh produce procurement category experience (ideally at least 5 years), preferably in food service, wholesale, or FMCG environments.
  • Strong capability in analysis and use of Microsoft Excel.
  • Great stakeholder management skills across the business, comfortable in front of customers, suppliers, and senior management.
  • Utilizing category management or sourcing processes.
  • Excellent analytical and negotiation skills.
  • Strong commercial and market awareness.

Reward and Benefits:

Category Buyer – Fresh Produce | £60,000 - £70,000 + 10% Bonus + 25 days annual leave + additional benefits.



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