Buyer

If you're passionate about developing a career in procurement and are looking for a new challenge, we'd love to hear from you. Jonathan Lee Recruitment is helping a collaborative company recruit a Buyer, and the role comes with a salary of £32,000 to £38,000 p/a and excellent benefits.

As a Buyer, you will report to the Procurement Manager and will be responsible for identifying and procuring ingredients for a leading food manufacturer. You will focus on category optimisation, process improvement and delivering against individual and departmental goals.

In your first few weeks in this Buyer role, you can expect to:

• Establish and maintain ongoing relationships with preferred suppliers
• Negotiate prices, agree terms and conditions and where required set up contracts and supply agreements
• Perform spend, contract and market analysis for ingredient category for communication to the wider business
• Work closely with all sites to manage lead times, minimum order quantities and shelf life to ensure continuity of supply to the site at minimal wastage
• Source new ingredients and suppliers where required, ensuring compliance with legislation and standards, including but not limited to retail, ethical and environmental

To apply for this Buyer role, your soft skills, expertise, and experience should include:

• Good analytical and reporting skills
• Ability to recognise future and market trends
• Knowledge of ingredient raw materials and commodity markets.
• Experience purchasing products within food manufacturing. 
• Contract management and SRM experience

You'll receive an excellent salary of £32,000 to £38,000 p/a and benefits package for your knowledge, expertise and flexibility.

To apply for this inclusive and collaborative full-time Buyer job, please get in touch with Jonathan Lee Recruitment today. We'd love to help you get your next role and enable you to fulfil your professional ambitions.

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