Buyer (Project Manager) – Food
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Quest Search and Selection are partnering with one of the leading specialist food brands in the UK and Europe & they are looking for a Buyer to work across brands and categories in a more project management function.
This role will be supporting 2 Category Buyers on their cakes, savoury snacks and other ambient product categories. This is a Buying role with a different where you are working towards the scheduled critical path, dealing directly with suppliers to make sure that these finished products are ready for launch .
As a Buyer, (Project Manager) your main duties will include:
- Negotiating with suppliers
- Delivering cost reduction policies
- strong organisational skills
- Ability to manage buying & promotional schedules
- Being able to chase things up so that key timelines don’t get overlooked.
- Responsible for maintaining and ensuring up-to-date information on the supplier database (to include pricing, supplier details, contacts, renewal dates etc) using SAP or Excel
- Constant monitoring of suppliers to benchmark prices and ensure that competitive costs are maintained
- Maintaining supplier relationships through calls and face-to-face visits (which could be abroad)
- Develop a project tracker
To be considered for this Buyer (Project Manager) role, you must have:
- Have retail food FMCG or procurement experience
- Can take on an analytical role where you are constantly monitoring suppliers to benchmark prices and ensure that competitive costs are maintained
- experience with developing and maintaining positive supplier relationships
- Key negotiations kills
- Have been involved in NPD critical path.
- Have maintained information on a supplier database (to include pricing, supplier details, contacts, renewal dates etc)
- Experienced using SAP or Excel
- Experience I’m generating purchase orders
- If you have a CIPS or equivalent this is desirable but not essential
What’s in it for you!
- Bonus
- Flexible working
- 25 days
- Pension – autoenrolment:
- Private medical insurance for the individual
- Free parking on site
The is initially a 12 month contract within this international business with the potential of a permanent opportunity with the potential growth & development and travel abroad as part of the role.
We request that candidates send their CV as a Microsoft Word document where possible.
Quest Search and Selection is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
We request that candidates send their CV as a Microsoft Word document where possible.
Quest Search and Selection is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.