Procurement Manager – Food & Beverages

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per year

Procurement Manager – Food & Beverages

Based: Milton Keynes

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000

Are you an experienced Procurement Manager or Senior Buyer looking for career progression?

Do you enjoy leading strategic change projects and delivering value?

Do you have experience of working within the Food and Beverages Industry?

If you answered yes to the above questions, a leading procurement business wants to hear from you?

Based in Milton Keynes they have helped some of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious names and brands in the Food and Hospitality industry optimise and improve their procurement and supply chain performance.

We are currently looking for an experienced Procurement Manager to head up the supplier relationships across all food and beverage categories and lead procurement and supply chain projects for our clients. This opportunity is a permanent role and has headroom to develop further within the business.

What will the role require you to do?

• Accountability for supplier relationships, negotiating and delivering market leading commercial deals for our clients
• Take accountability for client projects, ensuring the scope, deliverables, project plan and risks are managed to ensure timely delivery of work;
• with the client stakeholders (typically up to C-level) to ensure agreed business and procurement requirements and objectives are met;
• Work closely with the operations team consisting of buyers and analysts to support the delivery of projects
• Ensure strong communication both internally and externally with the client and Suppliers
• Develop and coach members of the buying team

You will need to have the following essential experience and skills:

• Experience in procurement and category management roles within the food industry;
• Previous experience of excellent stakeholder management at a senior level up to CEO;
• Demonstrates a good understanding of complex supply chain models ideally within the foodservice industry;
• Experience of managing and leading projects and project teams through to completion;
• Excellent level of IT competence including Microsoft Windows Software such as Excel;
• High level of numeracy and an analytical approach;
• Strong financial and commercial acumen and attention to detail;
• Ability to influence;
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team;
• Able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines;
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; and
• Strong negotiator and the ability to communicate at all levels.

In return you will receive:

• Salary range £48,000 – £60,000pa dependent on experience
• 29 days holiday (including bank holidays which increases with service);
• Healthcare Scheme;
• Pension Scheme
• Excellent Career progression
• free car parking; on site canteen.