Direct Procurement Manager / French Speaking

Direct Procurement Manager / Industry-Leading Food & Bev Organisation / Boutique Procurement Consultancy / French Speaking / Birmingham / Flexible Working / Rapid Progression / £65,000 - £75,000 + Benefits inc. Bonus

This industry-leading boutique procurement consultancy is working with a number of industry-leading food and beverage organisations where they're seeking a passionate procurement professional to join the team and take lead on these client projects. Due the clients key operations being located out of France, they are ideally seeking an individual who is fluent in French to facilitate effective procurement project delivery.

You will be working within an excellent employee-centric working environment that provides the best platform for success with great tailor-made pathways for progression coupled with continuously promoting employee well-being and work / life balance.

Direct Procurement Manager responsibilities…

• Build an effective rapport with differing stakeholders including key relations with client stakeholders to understand their requirements from a procurement perspective to aid procurement project delivery
• Utilise a range of strategic tools and techniques through continuous improvement to implement best practice procurement across the end-to-end procurement function in relation to food procurement and beverage procurement
• Undertake a range of day-to-day procurement activities, from category management strategy and transformation to negotiation and change management

Direct Procurement Manager requirements…

• Ability to demonstrate success across the end-to-end procurement function, ideally within the food and beverage space in relation to direct procurement
• Strong skills surrounding stakeholder relationship management, category management and negotiation
• French speaking is a necessity for this position

For more information regarding this exciting new procurement opportunity, please send a copy of your CV to Amy at ##### or directly through this page.

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