Overview

Salary: Competitive Salary with bonus and pension plan

Shift hours: Permanent

Our strategic sourcing function is a critical enabler to ensuring we are supplying the right products and services, at the right price, whilst supporting our wider strategic priorities around Net Zero, Social Value and beyond.

This is a critical role within Foodbuy that enables and supports delivery of our strategic sourcing activity. In addition, this role works extensively alongside our Category, Account teams, and the wider business to deliver our commercial KPI’s, work on strategic projects that have wider impact across the organisation and represent Foodbuy in the wider marketplace.

We are well on our way to gold standard for our supply chain integrity, this role should also support continuing to push the boundaries of how we approach Sourcing, the tools we use, focused on driving improvements in the outcome, whilst coaching and developing buyers

  • Leading strategic and tactical work streams and delivering results on sourcing projects
  • Learning and developing your procurement and buying skills through the Foodbuy Procurement Framework
  • Utilising Scanmarket, our online strategic sourcing platform, to comply with internal governance and external audits
  • Build great relationships with clients, stakeholder and the internal team, collaborating to help identify future opportunities for value creation
  • Raise the profile of the Strategic Sourcing activity and outcomes, by creating a platform to ‘tell our story’, both internally and across our client base
  • Identify market trends and insight around best in class procurement and apply learnings to our approach, processes and procedures to keep us ahead of our competition
  • Develop and maintain a great internal and external network and working relationships with key stakeholders
  •  Identify market trends and insight around best in class procurement and apply learnings to our approach, processes and procedures to keep us ahead of our competition
  • Develop and maintain a great internal and external network and working relationships with key stakeholders
  • Ensures the safe and ethical sourcing of great products and services
  • To understand and promote the safe, ethical, environmental and local credentials of category, products and/or services
  • Working knowledge of end-to-end supply chain within a retailer, foodservice or FMCG organisation
  • Strong decision maker, with good commercial acumen who is comfortable working under pressure
  • Proven ability to reduce cost against tough market backdrops
  • Demonstration of strategic procurement, which extends beyond tactical tenders
  • Ability to work under pressurised timelines and deadlines
  • Confident presenter
  • Versatile influencer, not afraid to challenge across all levels of seniority
  • Evidence of an ability to work cross-functionally
  • Ambitious high performer with excess enthusiasm, energy and resilience
  • Highly commercial, strong negotiator, exceptional communicator and influencer at all levels
  • Strong buying pedigree & Category management knowledge
  • Advanced computer skills including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
  • The ability to multi-task, remain calm under pressure and always maintain a strategic viewpoint

Reference: compass/TP/1545152/142059

Location: Chertsey

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