Product Innovation Buyer

21 hours ago

Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Greencore Full time
About the Role

We're seeking a talented Product Innovation Buyer to join our team at Greencore. As a key member of our procurement team, you'll play a crucial role in driving innovation and excellence in our sourcing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the effective and accurate sourcing of new raw materials in line with business requirements, contributing ideas and information, and ensuring timely delivery of requirements to the Product Development teams
  • Develop and maintain in-depth supplier knowledge of sourcing areas, ensuring avoidance of margin creep through product churn
  • Ensure products are sourced in alignment with Greencore Purchasing Excellence, procurement strategy, and objectives, and that the process is compliant with internal functional processes
  • Represent NPD buying and lead specific projects that contribute to our strategic innovation agenda, identifying suppliers and sourcing ingredients in line with the strategy
  • Act as the conduit between the innovation category teams and the lead buyers for your sourcing areas to ensure future innovation strategy is aligned with consumer, customer, and business needs
  • Manage a portfolio of Lead Buying areas within the function, ensuring compliance to systems and processes, monitoring and managing risks relating to material availability and input cost inflation
  • Maintain a pipeline library of innovation or great products for the sourcing area that is easily accessible to customer teams

What We're Looking For

  • Degree calibre or equivalent
  • Food knowledge and passion
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office systems
  • Cross-functional stakeholder management experience

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary and job-related benefits
  • Car Allowance
  • 25 days holiday
  • Pension up to 8% matched
  • Company share save scheme
  • Greencore Qualifications
  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
  • Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

We celebrate our people's differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together, we make every day taste better.

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