Buyer (Project Manager) – Food

Buyer (Project Manager) – Food

Ref: JO-1806-104664 | £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits | Location:Bagshot, Surrey, England | Added:05/02/19

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.