Senior Buyer - Manchester, United Kingdom - McBride

McBride
McBride
Verified Company
Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.


Key activities:
Influence key internal stakeholder relationships to drive delivery of Group Purchasing objectives. Procurement of a portfolio of materials, goods or services within a category. Develop and execute portfolio sourcing strategies that meet business requirements. Deliver KPI's relating to cost, cash, quality, service and continuity of supply for the portfolio. Identification and implementation (through the business) of COP or COS (cost of service) reduction projects.

Work with suppliers and influence internal stakeholders to implement the innovation strategy, and to evolve the strategy as technology, markets and business needs change.

Continuously gather, analyse, interpret and act upon market intelligence. Communicate to internal stakeholders as appropriate. Feedstock and market assumptions translated into annual budget and quarterly reforecast of portfolio spend. Assumptions documented.

Minimise risk to continuity of supply by carrying out supplier risk assessments for the portfolio's suppliers and implementing corrective actions as required.

Ensure supply agreements are based upon formal legal T&C's.


Behavioural Competencies:
Must be able to resolve most problems presenting, drawing upon line manager and cross functional stakeholder support as necessary. Appropriately communicate to all relevant stakeholders, and not hide a problem because of concern for the consequences.

Able to act across the whole McBride group (factories, BU's, departments etc)

The typical external contacts are supplier sales manager/director and Industry consultant. And the typical internal contacts include logistics managers, category teams, R&D teams, and the budget holder.


Technical Competencies:
Must be educated to level appropriate to be, highly numerate, a problem solver, influencer and a good communicator.


Knowledge/skills required include:

  • Negotiation
  • Procurement strategy
  • Technical understanding of category materials or services
  • Project management
  • Contract writing and negotiation
  • Financial evaluation and forecasting
Must be IT literate and should have the working knowledge of SAP, spreadsheets, presentations and documents.

Understanding of budget holder procurement needs to ensure alignment of purchasing strategy. Financial implications (cost, cash) of purchasing activities, supply chain requirement and R&D/Pack Dev processes (e.g. Approval; specification).

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