We drive our own success.
Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career.
Location: Spalding / Hybrid – with the ability to travel to suppliers and sites
Contract Type: Permanent
Business Area: Procurement
Salary: £30k- £35k
Why join us?
We’re constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more.
About the role.
In this busy and exciting role, you will manage the delivery of the short-term procurement strategy - ensuring maximum commercial value across a designated portfolio and that expenditure is managed accordingly.
You will influence both internal and external stakeholders throughout the sourcing process to successfully deliver agreed portfolio plans, whilst ensuring group goals and business needs are met and risks are managed - maximising commercial advantage.
Role Accountabilities
- Delivering portfolio using product knowledge which is recognised both internally and externally within the value chain and customer
- Delivering the annual procurement strategy across portfolio ensuring maximised value to Bakkavor and its customer base
- Ensuring business and customer needs are understood and managed to deliver long term sustainability
- Confirming that all areas within your portfolio have a clear and robust risk management plan in place, encompassing all business needs
- Ensuring risk plans are agreed with the appropriate stakeholders, to support full implementation and effective contracting
- Providing support with any necessary crisis management across portfolio
- Taking ownership for portfolio prices within the group’s financial forecasts and tracking ongoing performance – updating live tracker accordingly
- Generating measurable financial and commercial value from the supply base
- Developing and owning relationships with suppliers, ensuring we have performance measures in place which are reviewed regularly - using these measures to make sure that key suppliers are meeting continuous improvement targets relating to value, quality, service, risk management and innovation
- Contributing to and delivering the Category Improvement Plan (CIP) for designated expenditure which is aligned and approved by the relevant stakeholders - maintaining as a live and evolving document holding regular reviews with key stakeholders to drive delivery
- Being recognised as the portfolio lead for Bakkavor within the value chain, managing and influencing on procurement matters to meet our strategic objectives
- Maintaining strong relationships across the group and with customers where appropriate - demonstrating effective management to deliver category plans and strategy
- Understanding the technical risks and working closely with the technical function to proactively manage change to products or suppliers
- Providing input into the sourcing strategies and plans - considering the Responsible Sourcing Policy
About you
- Ideally you will have previous experience of a procurement role from a buying perspective, preferably within a food manufacturing setting.
- Strong negotiation, communication, influencing and relationship building skills with the ability to present complex information clearly, will all be key – as will a full UK driving licence.
- You will be CIPs qualified or hold relevant demonstrable experience and have a sound understanding of financial accounts
- If you have solid knowledge of procurement processes and experience within categories, contract law and commodity or base raw material tracking methods – this could be the perfect role for you.
What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
You’ll enjoy:
- Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
- Short Term Bonus Scheme
- 25 days holiday
- Staff Shop
- Stakeholder Pension Scheme
- MyBargains Discount Platform
- Personal Accident Insurance
- Free Independent Mortgage Advice
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
- Discounted tutoring for children
- Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Free Carparking– Site dependant
Proud to be Bakkavor
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
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