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Buyer

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
Gloucestershire
Salary
£40,000 - £45,000
Closing date
4 Sep 2019

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

Job Details

Buyer (Fresh Foods)

Job ref: 62304 | £40,000 - £45,000 | Gloucestershire

The company

This is an excellent opportunity to become part of an innovative and passionate team, working for a producer of award-winning food. The company is dedicated to the development of their people; therefore, this is an excellent opportunity to grow your food industry career.

The job

The purpose of your role as Buyer is to define, own and deliver a range that reflects the food retail strategy, embracing quality, innovation, seasonality and sustainability and is brought to life across relevant sales channels.

You will work on the fresh foods category where you will own cost and retail prices across the categories, proactively stay abreast of market trends ensuring the range remains innovative and aspirational plus bring the product to life, exciting the kitchen and store teams through full engagement, tasting and sharing of product knowledge.

Your experience

Ideally educated to a degree/HND level in a supply chain, procurement or related business discipline, you will possess a strong buying/purchasing track record within food manufacturing, most preferably within fresh chilled foods such as meat, poultry and seafood. You will have good working knowledge of purchasing, category management and stock management together with excellent food industry market knowledge and negotiation skills. A driving licence is also required due to site location.

More details

The Buyer role is based in the Gloucestershire region and is paying £40,000 - £45,000 according to individual skills and previous experience. The working hours are Monday to Friday.

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, victori@b3jobs.co.uk quoting job reference 62304.

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.

Alternate job titles

Food Manufacturing Buying Jobs | Purchasing Jobs | FMCG Supply Chain Jobs | Raw Materials Buyer | Ingredients Buyer | Procurement Jobs | Food Industry Jobs | Food Manufacturing Jobs | Gloucestershire

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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