Senior Procurement Manager - Liverpool, United Kingdom - PRINCES

Description

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius.

Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. Princes Liverpool is looking for a Senior Procurement Manager to join the team at Liverpool.

You will get the opportunity to travel to our Italian trade shows and visit our supply based whilst building your knowledge.

This is an exciting opportunity to continue your Procurement background within one of the UK's leading FMCG businesses.

Strategically source goods and services to improve quality and provide for innovative opportunities at the lowest total cost of ownership.

Collaborate, create, publish and implement comprehensive category management strategies and lead cross functional teams in delivery.
Ensure all goods and services are sourced responsibly in line with regulatory, ethical, technical, sustainability and customer requirements.

Be a consultative partner, demonstrating knowledge across spend categories and providing insight to support and help to shape strategy.

Be a champion for business processes and governance and support the Head of Finished Goods Procurement with the development of other colleagues.

7652 Cash Car Allowance
~26 days Annual Leave including a day for your Birthday + Bank Holidays
~ Flexible holidays - the option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year
~5% Pension consisting of a 9.15% Corporate Incentive Scheme (75% Princes Performance, 25% Individual Performance)
~ Private Medical Insurance (Single, Partner and Family cover)
~ Life Insurance
~ Enhanced Family Friendly Policy (Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave)

Utilise the SAP Ariba business network to conduct and document sourcing activities and the delivery of cost savings.
Drive partnership strategy as appropriate to ensure long term collaborative business growth planning and ensuring continuity of supply.
Obtain the lowest possible total cost of ownership through negotiation, market intelligence and supplier knowledge.
Conduct regular reviews with key stakeholders and provide regular reporting on key initiatives including cost reduction projects.

Utilise ERP system to drive analytics and provide appropriate reports for use within category plans and for sharing and analysis with appropriate teams.

Utilise appropriate tools to maximise value delivery (e-auctions, should cost modelling, TCO, value lever analysis)
Demonstrate commercial awareness and lead negotiations across all allocated areas of third party spend.
Develop a network of strong supplier relationships that create innovative opportunities to drive value.
Make use of SRM tools and performance measures to drive supplier effectiveness.
Maximise opportunities to mitigate risk across area of spend responsibility.
Control currency requirements in line with group policy if required.

Professionally resolve problems both internally and externally in a fair and ethical manner while protecting the long-term interests of the team and company.

The ideal candidate will have a food background
Thorough understanding of procurement processes and frameworks
Understanding of contract principles and clauses and be able to construct and interpret agreements
SAP analytics and reporting
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
Associate or student of CIPS, or working to CIPS qualification
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