Buyer (Food, Ingredients, Raw Materials, Packaging)

A food manufacturing business requires a Buyer. Applicants need previous ingredients or raw materials purchasing experience within a food, pharmaceutical or similar sector. The Buyer will be responsible for operational and strategic procurement.The Buyer will join a small procurement team, reporting to a Procurement Manager with responsibility for ingredient, raw materials and packaging sourcing activities. Alongside both operational and strategic procurement tasks, the Buyer will also have duties across materials planning and will assist the Procurement Manager in developing the function.Specific duties of the Buyer include:Management of PO process for direct materials, indirects and packagingNegotiate and manage contractual agreements with suppliersOptimise inventory/materials levelsForecasting, replenishing and ABC Inventory activitiesPost-signature supplier relationship management and development activitiesContribute to change and process improvement initiatives in collaboration with the Procurement ManagerBuyer applicants should meet the following criteria:Buyer, Purchasing, Procurement, Supply Chain or Materials Planning experiencePrevious experience of the Food industry would be advantageous, but other industries involving procurement of ingredients and raw materials can be consideredComfortable in a procurement role that has strategic and operational elementsKnowledge of LEAN inventory management techniquesCollaborative, honest and open in character
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