Procurement & portfolio lead
3 days ago
Procurement & portfolio lead
Location: Lincolnshire - hybrid
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Sector: Manufacturing / FMCG / Retail Supply
Contract: 12-Month Fixed Term
Are you a commercially minded procurement professional looking for a varied and high-impact interim role? We're supporting our industry leading client, a market-leading manufacturer as they seek a Procurement & Portfolio Lead to oversee a category on a 12-month maternity cover contract.
This is a dynamic, cross-functional role with real breadth combining procurement strategy, supplier management, and commercial delivery across a fast-moving consumer product range.
The Opportunity
You'll take ownership of the portfolio, managing supplier partnerships, driving cost optimisation, and ensuring continued commercial success across key retail channels. Alongside this, you'll support new product initiatives and category planning to ensure long-term growth and innovation.
Key Responsibilities but not limited to:
- Lead supplier management, commercial negotiations and pricing strategy within the retail portfolio.
- Implement sourcing strategies, monitor commodity trends, and maintain contingency plans to ensure supply continuity.
- Manage NPD and product lifecycle activities, from concept to launch, in collaboration with technical and marketing teams.
- Partner with retail customers to identify opportunities and support tenders, pricing submissions and product launches.
- Maintain benchmarking, market intelligence and performance reporting to support commercial decision-making.
- Liaise closely with internal functions including procurement, sustainability, and sales to ensure alignment and delivery.
About You
- Strong procurement and supplier management experience, ideally within FMCG, retail, or manufacturing environments.
- Proven commercial acumen confident negotiating and influencing across multiple stakeholders.
- Experience working across category, sourcing or portfolio roles, ideally with exposure to NPD or lifecycle management.
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to balance short-term priorities and long-term strategy.
- A collaborative, confident communicator with strong attention to detail.
This is a brilliant opportunity to step into a visible, wide-reaching procurement position within a respected, values-driven business. You'll work across trusted brands, established supplier networks, and an experienced internal team all while helping shape category direction during a period of maternity cover.
If you're commercially savvy, supplier-focused, and ready for a challenge we'd love to hear from you.
Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd, your personal data may be added to our database as part of the application process. Our privacy policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data. Your details will be reviewed by one of our Recruitment Partners and we will contact you again within 5 working days if your application is to be progressed further.
Please note that we are not able to provide support with visa sponsorships and all applicants must be based in the UK and hold the valid right to work in the UK
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