Buyer - Hospitality Sector - Central London
- Employer
- Focus Management Consultants Ltd
- Location
- London
- Salary
- Highly attractive, car, bonus + excellent benefits
- Closing date
- 8 Nov 2019
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Function
- Other Job Function, Purchasing
- Business Sector
- Food Manufacturing
Job Details
An opportunity for a experienced commercial buyer to join a leader in the retail and hospitality sector.
I'm looking for a highly credible, commercially strong Buyer with strong experience of working within the hospitality sector. You'll be a leading player in the category team driving medium and long term category plans for the growing hospitality area. You'll be accountable for agreeing and setting budgets and promotional plans and will be targeted on delivering margins and sales growth within the hospitality area. Candidates will need to have a real passion for food and a strong track record of delivering margin,enhancing promotional activity and driving innovation with the help of new product development and technical teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the category buying team to deliver commercial objectives
- Manage the relationship with suppliers and identify new and innovative ones
- Drive efficiency improvements within the supply base
This business has an excellent reputation in the food industry for its extensive, innovative product range. It's a highly innovative business and they thrive on their ability to be first to market with new food trends.
To thrive in this role, you'll need significant experience of food buying within the hospitality sector. You'll need to demonstrate first-class negotiation skills, excellent commercial awareness and have strong analytical experience.
This is a challenging role in a high performance environment so I am looking for a talented individual looking to further their career within a leading business.
To apply send your details through to me today.
Ref HLJ895345
Tel: +44 (0) 1625 560778
Follow Focus Management on Twitter @foodjob
Company
Founded in 1990, Focus delivers excellent recruitment solutions in the changing world of the food and drink industry. We are proud of our talented team of knowledgeable recruitment specialists covering all functions and sectors offering a bespoke service for our clients.
We provide Permanent and Interim recruitment solutions across Manufacturing, Retail, Foodservice, Food Technology, Product Development, Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, HR, Sales & Marketing from Graduate to Board Level.
We’ve worked across the globe, recruiting for start-ups through to large international organisations. We have helped and made a real difference to a vast array of clients working collaboratively as they recruit the very best talent to support their strategies.
Our guiding principles and culture are built on 3 pillars:
- An employee-owned business where we all thrive A business with a culture of pride, trust, kindness and wanting to be the BEST
- An environment that embraces lifestyle goals offering balance, fun and an engaging place to work
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