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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

Keywords: procurement, purchasing, buyer, buying, senior buyer, food buyer, ingredients, food, fruit & veg buying, strategic sourcing, food distribution, food service, degree, cips, London

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