Buyer - Surrey, United Kingdom - Clearwater People Solutions

Clearwater People Solutions
Clearwater People Solutions
Verified Company
Surrey, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Buyer:


  • Location
  • Surrey
  • Salary:


  • £35000 to £35000

  • Contact name:


  • Felicity Handley

  • Job ref:

Published:
- about 4 hours agoOur client, a market leading large organisation, is looking for a Buyer to join their category team to support the end-to-end process across the Food category. The Buyer will be handling various suppliers and will be delivering improvements within cost and quality. The ideal Buyer will need to come from a food/retail/hospitality buying background and will be extremely organised.

This role will be a 50/50 hybrid role.


Key Responsibilities for the Buyer:


  • You will support the Category Manager to develop and execute a longterm category strategy to deliver sustainable improvements in terms of cost, quality, service and innovation, in collaboration with the procurement team & other relevant business stakeholders
  • Identifying potential suppliers, visiting, and meeting existing suppliers, building, and maintaining relationships
  • You will understand key cost drivers, industry trends and standard methodologies to design/implement the category strategy for all subcategories in the meat and poultry categories
  • Develop and maintain long term pricing mechanisms across our meat and poultry supply base to drive sustainable competitive advantage
  • You will support our supply chain team to ensure on time direct supply and supply via distributor aligned to SLA's
  • Ensure your product range is compliant to food safety regulations & CSR requirements, assuring high quality standards always
  • You will be accountable for your category spend
  • Evaluating bids with the sourcing team and making recommendations based on commercial, technical, supply and quality requirements, using your category expertise and knowledge
  • You will communicate industry trends across the business
  • Regularly review supplier performance to support category growth
  • Manage category related queries from internal and external stakeholders
  • Support our sales and bid teams with content

Skills Required for the Buyer:


  • Results Oriented comfortable delivering against bold and stretching targets
  • Experience in a buying role within food/retail/hospitality.
  • Competent with procurement systems, ideally having used these in current/previous employment
  • Demonstrated ability to develop credible business relationships
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