Category Buyer - Food
- Employer
- Mackenzie Jones
- Location
- Surrey
- Salary
- c£60k
- Closing date
- 28 Feb 2019
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Purchasing
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
The Organisation
A leading FMCG business seeking to expand their procurement team
The Role
Management of a 50m + spend
End-to-end procurement management
Continuously improving and defining category strategy
Negotiate on new and existing contracts, to drive down costs to the company
Implement SLA's into contracts to ensure service delivery is at optimum level - required to have a full strategic approach
Influence key stakeholders in the business to define new and effective procurement strategies
Bring previous expertise of improving processes of any current policies
Identify new potential suppliers and cost saving opportunities by using market knowledge
The Candidate
You will be a category manager/buyer coming from a Retail or FMCG background seeking your next career step.
You will hold proven procurement experience within Food (Chilled, Ambient, Fresh, Frozen etc)
Highly commercial and results driven
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
Degree / MCIPS qualification desirable, though not essential
Company
Mackenzie Jones are specialist recruitment consultants, focusing on the FMCG, Consumer Products & Manufacturing sectors. We manage roles based in the UK and internationally, both permanent and interim, from globally recognised organisations to local start-up businesses.
Recruitment is what we do but our real expertise is in connecting people. With established and relevant networks, we bring together talented professionals with a diverse client base in a way that is unrivalled. It is why many of our customers are long standing – they trust us to connect them with highly talented individuals.
And you will enjoy the way we work too. Quite simply, you are centre stage. We actively manage our relationship with you because it means we can help you to recruit more successfully, with less risk, and it allows us to keep building those valuable networks which make all the difference.
- Website
- http://www.mackenziejones.co.uk/
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 121 644 3400
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