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Buyer

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Home Counties
Salary
£38,000 - £40,000
Closing date
24 Aug 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Purchasing, Supply Chain
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Buyer

Job ref: 62195 | £38,000 - £40,000 | Home Counties

The company

This job is working for a well-established and fast growing, food manufacturing business. The company is family run and pride themselves on creating and supplying the highest quality products to retailers, foodservice and specialist outlets throughout the UK.

The job

Your role as Buyer is to manage the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle for all goods and services to meet the requirements of the group, including supplier selection, negotiation, ongoing supplier relationship management and line management of the in-bound supply team.

You will be responsible for driving commercial advantage and ensuring continuous improvement in terms of cost, risk and waste.

You will work closely with suppliers, Planners and the inbound goods team to ensure raw materials are commercially available as requested.

Your experience

You will possess experience of working in an FMCG/food manufacturing supply chain environment and be able to demonstrate sound purchasing skills including sourcing expertise, negotiation and supplier performance management. To succeed in this role, you will have excellent IT skills including Microsoft Excel, be analytical, highly numerate, logical and accurate with numbers and data plus ideally you will have managed or supervised a small team. A driving licence will be required due to site location.

More details

The Buyer role is based in the Home Counties region and is paying £38,000 - £40,000 according to individual skills and previous experience. The working hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 5.00pm, however, some flexibility will be required.

  

How to apply

If this really sounds like you and you want to be considered for the Buyer job, please click the Apply button.

Or, alternatively you can apply directly for this job, by emailing me, Victoria Holyoake, victoria@b3jobs.co.uk quoting job reference 62195.

What happens next?

On applying for this job, you consent to b3 jobs ltd holding your details on file to be able to contact you about your job search, for full details of our GDPR policy, please refer to the b3 jobs website. We aim to contact you within 24 hours on the assumption that your credentials fit the requirements for the role.

b3 jobs is a professional, friendly and progressive food recruitment consultancy established in 2000 dedicated to the food manufacturing industry. We are a market leader for permanent jobs within food and drink manufacturing throughout the UK. All of our consultants have considerable experience in recruitment so you can be confident that they will have your best interests at heart when finding the perfect job for you.

We deal with food jobs covering product development / NPD, quality assurance / QA, technical, process, production, operations, planning, supply, sales, account management, engineering, microbiology, food technology, specifications, marketing, logistics, purchasing, hygiene and auditing. We cover all job levels including Assistants, Technologists, Technicians, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Managers and Directors.

Alternative job titles

Food Manufacturing Buying Jobs | Purchasing Jobs | FMCG Supply Chain Jobs | Raw Materials Buyer | Ingredients Buyer | Home Counties

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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