Senior Buyer - Food Service & Ingredients
- Employer
- Bramwith Consulting
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- £40000 - £42000 per annum + package
- Closing date
- 10 Jun 2021
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- Specialist Area
- Procurement, Purchasing
- Sector
- FMCG, Food Services
- Function
- Buyer
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Senior Buyer - Innovative Food Distribution Firm - London + Flex working - £40-42k + package
This highly regarded and leading food distributor in the UK, boasting a wide range of high-quality products, is looking to bring onboard a similarly high calibre Senior Buyer to manage across their food service and ingredients spend within their chilled fruits and veg categories.
This is a global organisation, not with common ingredients, and offering a gourmet and high-end selection of products along with a number of separate brands. In this role you will be working with a wide range of global suppliers, in a high operating team and a great opportunity to expand your skillset and progress your career.
Key role responsibilities:
- Manage a key supplier base across the chilled fruit and veg categories for the group, ensuring the required quality, price and service standards are met
- Ensure that all buying activities are carried out in line with company policy and procedures
- Make the most of your product, industry and market knowledge to ID cost savings and improve supply opportunities for your supply base
- Take advantage of this progressive team going through a key period growth, and progress into management and above
Experience required:
- Experience of working in an ingredients or food service / retail team, able to ID and understand key categories such as fresh fruit, chilled fruit and vegetables
- A good understanding of food service is important as well as knowledge of the high street catering chains
- Degree level education or above, CIPS is ideal however not essential
- Clear communication style and ability to work in an autonomous environment
If you are food buyer, looking to take a step into a leading food distribution firm and work with some ingredients products from across the globe, please apply via this domain or with a copy of your cv to jobsgb@bramwithconsulting.co.uk
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