Job Vacancy

We have a fantastic permanent opportunity for a Purchasing Executive working Monday to Friday 08.30 – 17.00.

Purpose of the Role:

Reporting to the Purchasing Manager the role will be to support the Purchasing Manager in all aspects of the business.

Key responsibilities:

• Deputy to the Purchasing Manager when they are not available.
• Manage/support Purchasing Assistant in the absence of the Purchasing Manager
• Managing business KPI’s
• Supporting/assisting with business plans
• Responsible for the management and purchasing of raw materials and other business procurement needs.
• Develop, maintain and review supply strategies ensuring appropriate contingencies and ensuring supply on-going.
• Support the management of purchase contracts ensuring they are approved following company and group policies.
• To ensure that all purchasing processes that are critical to product safety, legality & quality are procured to defined requirements.
• To ensure good supplier relations are maintained in both ethical and professional manner.
• To action all internal and external supplier queries promptly and efficiently.
• Clearly communicate to all parties upstream and downstream within the supply chain.
• Implement continuous improvements programmes into the business.
• Work closely with all departments on sourcing new ingredients & packaging.
• Maintain an understanding of retailer/customer requirements, processes and procedures.
• Identify areas of cost savings on both Ingredients and packaging.
• Support any supplier monitoring or improvement programs initiated.
• Undertake supplier visits & host supplier visits.
• Understand the supply market place and be able to challenge suppliers about performance.
• Build strong relationships with retailers, and suppliers.
• Ability to benchmark all areas.
• Work closely with NPD, Sales, Technical Services and all other departments.
• Support the procurement team to ensure the factory has ingredients and packaging when needed.
• Support and suggest profit improvement plans following through projects to completion

Skills and Experience required:

• Experience in the use of SAP
• Experience of dealing with difficult and sensitive situations in a diplomatic and professional manner
• Extensive experience in a Buying role
• The ability to look at the overall business process
• Understanding of a commercial environment
• Excellent analytical skills
• Advanced user of Microsoft (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Skills and Experience desirable:

• Understanding of the theory of Purchasing and supply
• Associate of CIPs