Senior Buyer

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom nando's Full time

About the Role:

Nando's is on a journey of Changing Lives Together, creating lasting happiness for our people, our customers, and the communities we work in. As a key member of our Supply Chain Team, you will play a crucial role in helping to deliver the Nando's strategic goals through providing a robust and stable supply chain, improving gross profit and margin, and addressing risk.

Main Purpose of the Role:

  • To directly lead the chicken buying category and lead and manage a buyer for other product categories, to ensure robust supply, competitive terms, innovation, supplier capacity to meet business growth, and sustainable sourcing.
  • To develop valued supplier relationships with all chicken suppliers and strategic suppliers within the sub-team to ensure supplier relationship management and performance management is applied robustly.
  • To lead and manage a buyer and buyer's assistant, ensuring the right balance of support, development, challenge, and performance.

Key Responsibilities & Expectations:

  • To support the Head of Buying to establish the buying strategy for chicken and other buying categories within the sub-team, to ensure robust and consistent supply, competitive terms with our suppliers, a supplier base plan for innovation, sustainability, animal welfare, and capacity for growth.
  • To support the Head of Buying in sharing the buying strategy with key internal stakeholders and achieving support and alignment with them, and then be responsible for the execution of that strategy.
  • To work closely with the Demand Planning Manager and Supply Chain Manager to ensure full availability of product from our suppliers and take ownership for resolving shortfalls and service issues as they arise.
  • To constantly engage in scenario planning, mitigating risk, and shoring up additional options for supply to ensure that we always have sufficient supply to support sales growth as well as mitigating for risks such as AI, etc.
  • To work very closely with the customer, food, and technical teams to identify new and existing product development opportunities and to lead the development of suppliers and sourcing of products to meet the NPD/EPD process requirements and support the launch process by ensuring our suppliers and products are ready to launch in full and on time across all markets as well as for halal and non-halal.
  • To ensure the buyer in the sub-team identifies, develops, sources, and supports the same for their buying categories.
  • To provide updates and information to the Head of Buying on NPD/EPD activity and other projects to enable them to update and align senior stakeholders and report on progress at stage gate process meetings.
  • To manage all tendering activity and contract negotiations, renewals, drafting for submission and approval for chicken, and oversee the same for the other buying categories in the sub-team.
  • To develop valued supplier relationships with and ensure supplier relationship management and performance management is applied, including leading scorecard reviews.
  • To be responsible for the buying assistant role within the sub-team to ensure their responsibilities and accountabilities which support across the buying and supply chain and logistics teams are successfully completed.
  • To be accountable for driving a strong sustainability and animal welfare agenda across all chicken suppliers, working closely with the Sustainability and Agriculture Managers, ensuring that progress is steadily made year-on-year.
  • To support Nando's Southern Africa sourcing plan.
  • To lead and manage the buyer and buying assistant in the team, developing their technical skills and knowledge, set targets and monitor KPIs, create development and succession plans, and provide continuous feedback and coaching.

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