Junior Buyer - Surrey, United Kingdom - Quest Search and Selection
Description
The responsibilities of this Junior Buyer - Food- To support the Category Lead in proactively managing the supply base with the aim of enhancing buying efficiencies.
- Ensuring the sourcing of great products with safety and ethical practices.
- Negotiating with suppliers to optimize the commercial category, which includes yoghurts, milk, cheese, desserts, creams, milkbased drinks, butter and spreads.
- Collaborating closely with the Supply Chain team.
- Category supports across supplier agreements and terms.
- Assisting the category and marketing team with promotional launches and campaigns.
- Working towards driving the revenue and profit performance of clients.
- Developing strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- You must be a Graduate calibre with experience in a commercial environment.
- Has 2 years + experience with Buying, Supply Cain Purchasing or Procurement experience within a supermarket, convenience, foodservice, manufacturing or retail environment.
- That you have experience within a food, food service, Health & beauty or FMCG environment.
- Certification in CIPS (or studying towards this) is desirable but no means essential
- You must be a good communicator that is confident to deal with internal & external stakeholders.
- Analytical in your approach and be able to happy to deal with trading reports.
- Intermediate to Advance Excel skillset
- Hybrid working
- Free parking
- Discounts
- Pension
- 25 days holiday
This is a great opportunity to work for a £Billion industry with growth for the right calibre individual who are in their infancy Buying or procurement career.
JO
Salary:
£30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Work Location:
In person
Reference ID:
JO
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