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Buyer - hybrid

Employer: b3 jobs
Location: Colchester, Essex
Salary: to £50,000 DOE
Closing date: 7 Dec 2024

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Contract Type: Permanent
Function: Planning, Supply Chain
Business Sector: Food Manufacturing

Job Details
Company

Job Details

This company is a leading importer and supplier for the UK food sector - with 100's of products and representing numerous brands, they predominately supply into the UK wholesale market.

About the Buyer job

The purpose of your role will be to manage all day-to-day buying activities, develop strong relationships with sustainable suppliers and negotiate the best prices for the business ensuring product quality is achieved and maintained.

Key tasks

Analyse market trends to develop and execute strategies for sales growth. Research and onboard new suppliers to find competitive rates, negotiate terms, and set up commercial contracts to optimise pricing and conditions.
Manage supplier relationships, ensuring contractual compliance and performance. Support end-to-end procurement processes, including overseeing key food categories (e.g., ambient, frozen) and working on innovations like packaging efficiency for shared cost benefits.
Monitor own trading performance through regular sales reports, budget tracking, and setting targets.
Support New Product Development (NPD) initiatives to introduce new products and expand categories effectively.

About You

To be successful within this role you are required to have food buying experience in either ambient, fresh/chilled and frozen categories within a food manufacturing setting.

More details

The Buyer job (ref:8795) is based in Essex and is paying up to £50,000 DOE according to your experience. Once established within the role, there will be flexibility of hybrid working, up to 2 days per week.

The site is near Colchester Essex and is commutable from Ipswich, Halstead & Braintree.

The package includes Free on-site parking, Staff Discount Card post probation providing 50% off at selected hotel stays plus 50% off food and further discounts for friends and close family members. Free food and access to a Benefits Reward Platform, virtual GP app, wellbeing hub and fitness/gym and nutrition app.

The working hours are Monday to Friday Office Hours.

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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: https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/
Telephone: 01435 866000
Location: Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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