Purchasing & Supply Jobs In Wiltshire

Essential experience:
Purchasing team development
£20m minimum budget control
FMCG
SAP
Evidence of creating purchasing strategy

Desirable experience:
Food
Protein (£12m spend)
Lead buying
Global purchasing relationships/knowledge of restrictions
Pitchting & presenting
Compiling tenders
Pivotal in terms of NPD
Gravitas to challenge, influential, work at Board level
Excellent negotiation skills
MCIPS
German language

Reporting to: Manufacturing Director
Direct Reports: 5 Buyers and 1 Inventory Controller

Overview:
The Purchasing Manager is a critical appointment to help us achieve our ambitious profit and growth targets. Record food price inflation reinforces the need to recruit an outstanding procurement professional. As a key member of the Company Senior Management Team the successful candidate will report to the Manufacturing Director, and will be responsible for ensuring cost effective sourcing, negotiation, procurement and supply of materials. Working with a dedicated buying team, the Head of Purchasing will be able to lead and develop the team. This role is accountable for an annual UK budget of around £20 million and will play an instrumental role on the International Group Buying Committee. The Committee is responsible for over £60 million of shared buying between our German, Dutch and UK business's.
This is a stimulating and exciting role. We buy from varied and diverse worldwide markets including cooked meat, raw meat, dairy, packaging, oils, vegetables and fish. The role requires a proven Purchasing Manager with the intellectual capacity, knowledge and experience of modern buying techniques. It will be essential to develop category strategies within the current market. They will also have strong negotiation skills, combined with assertiveness: they will also be confident, assured and willing to present their ideas both verbally and through written reports. The ability to influence will be critical. This role requires an organised and determined individual who can see a broader commercial view and understand how to gain effective results. The Purchasing Manager duties will involve some European travel and, at times, world travel.

Key Result Areas:
" The ability to reliably and rationally forecast future Raw Material Prices is a crucial part of this role. Whilst this is not always easy or possible, the ability to propose credible future raw material prices allows us to develop accurate pricing strategies and thus secure profit and growth.
" Many of our Raw Materials are bought from outside the UK and it is essential that the successful candidate has good knowledge of currency influences, trading quotas and tariffs in all the countries in which we operate.
" The Purchasing Manager must have strong and effective management skills. They must be able to inspire, develop and motivate our young buying team. The Manager must also have excellent interpersonal skills and the proven capability to interact, influence and persuade the Senior Management Team. They must be comfortable presenting at Board level.
" Develop systems and promote a culture which ensure 100 per cent raw material supply at all times.
" The candidate should have a thorough knowledge of production processes for the major raw materials and understand the local and global markets in which they are traded.
" Pursue purchasing synergies with the International Buying Committee and create productive and profitable relationships with Group Lead Buyers. Create a culture of sharing best practice and be open minded to new approaches and different concepts;

The Candidate

Qualifications
Essential:
Graduate
Highly Numerate
Full Driving Licence

Desirable:
Foreign Language skills in German
Man management qualifications
Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply
Clean Driving Licence

Work Experience
Essential:
" Comprehensive experience within a blue chip organisation in the FMCG sector.
" Understanding of critical supplier processes, lead times, and overall supply chain is essential.
" Clear evidence of running significant budgets (c. £20 million) and operating in varied markets.
" Highly numerate and verbally persuasive.
" Working knowledge of SAP or equivalent MRP systems.
" Experience of managing and developing a team.
" Evidence of creating and implementing a purchasing strategy.

Desirable:
" Evidence of taking a leadership role within a senior management team and able to show how they contributed to the achievement of team goals.
" Strong, current understanding of world economics and its impact on Governmental Policy.
" Proven experience of working in a lead buying culture.
" Experience of working in the food manufacturing sector.
" Experience of purchasing proteins.
" Experience of buying from multiple global sources and developing global relationships.
" Experience of presenting and pitching to key clients and stakeholders.
" Experience of compiling tenders and other written reports.
" Comfortable with a collaborative approach to working with internal departments and experience of building and maintaining internal relationships.

Personal Qualities
" Must be able to work to tight deadlines with accuracy and precision.
" Good problem solving skills and ability to drive for completion and delivery.
" Ability to be able to work on a number of projects simultaneously, with high regard to quality.
" A natural presenter with the ability to present complex information in a clear and simple format.
" A decisive thinker who will take responsibility for decisions and actions.
" Strong and engaging leader - will demonstrate leadership skills that peers will aspire to imitate.
" Ability to overcome negativity and resistance to new ideas.
" Shows resilience and tenacity with the courage to challenge decisions.
" Shows ambition and a desire to develop themselves and others around them.
" Highly numerate.
" Verbally persuasive with the gravitas to lead and influence others.

Circumstances
This role will require some travel, primarily with interaction of UK suppliers, however this may be extended toward both European and international travel as required. A typical amount could be 5 days travel out of 20 (per month)

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.

Overview:
The role of senior buyer is a newly created role which demonstrates our recognition that purchasing is a key function in delivering business strategy. The successful candidate with report to the purchasing manager and will be a key and influential member of the purchasing team.
Working within a team of 7 the successful candidate will be based at our production facility in Wiltshire. The structure for purchasing is category team split – proteins, ingredients & packaging/traded goods - this role will lead one of 3 categories. This category lead role has a direct report which will be at development level so there will be a high degree of coaching, developing & management required.
The role of senior buyer will be expected to really make a difference in the category of responsibility by challenging what we currently do and also bringing experiences from other industries & roles historically held. One of the biggest challenges the successful candidate will have is to be able to balance the day to day production stresses and strains with the need to think about the bigger picture. They will be able to manage their time & that of their direct report effectively to achieve these dual requirements.
The successful candidate will be self stating, credible & inspiring as the main objective is to make a difference & challenge the status quo in order to achieve a culture dedicated to continuous improvement. Alongside this they will be confident & assured, willing to present their ideas & able to influence others to buy in to them.

Key Responsibilities:
• Overall responsibility for all protein categories.
• Set the purchasing budget for protein categories and deliver against it.
• Develop, get buy in & then deliver strategy for those categories.
• Develop & manage a junior direct report.
• Allocate categories & projects within team.
• Liaise and support lead buyer to develop strategies to deliver UK business needs.
• Challenge the norm – process & strategy.
• Create environment which supports & encourages continuous improvement.
• Support the value optimisation agenda.

Key Result Areas:
With the pressures we face as a food manufacturer from rising/volatile food prices and commodity prices the focus is on the purchasing team to come up with ways to accurately predict these costs, control these costs and be able to challenge what we do today to take cost out.
Forecasting and predicting where we have risks to budget form a key part of this role. The protein category is high value & all subcategories within it are Global markets so gaining the expertise to understand the market drivers is critical to ensure we can predict & communicate in timely manner the risks to budget to the wider business.
Ensuring we are working with the right suppliers is key for our service levels to the factory. We measure the performance of our suppliers from an OTIF perspective and from a quality perspective and work in a proactive cross functional way to ensure that we are working with the right suppliers.
The nature of our business means we have a real focus on understanding where our customer complaints come from & then tackling the causes – with the protein category the biggest areas of focus are on foreign body complaints & tough meat. It is critical that we are buying from the right suppliers & that these suppliers understand our requirements & work with us to achieve the results we require.
The candidate will work closely with the Group lead buyer for Chicken, Pork & beef based in Germany. The role will be critical in supporting and implementing group strategy in those areas into the UK. Communication is key in this area.

The Candidate

Qualifications:

Essential:
Experience is key but education level has to be such that the candidate can get through the numerical and verbal reasoning testing.

Desirable:
Graduate
MCIPS qualified

Work Experience:

Essential:
An individual from a purchasing background who can demonstrate prior responsibility for a budgeted purchasing spend of circa £ 8 million per annum.
Who can demonstrate that they can pull together a viable sourcing proposal, communicate and present in a manner to get by in from relevant stakeholders & implement the proposal in full.
Can demonstrate challenging the status quo in order to achieve a culture dedicated to continuous improvement.
Has challenged suppliers & business to deliver reduced total cost of purchase while still meeting business needs.

Desirable:
Purchasing experience in a food manufacturing environment.
Responsibility for multi & sometimes diverse categories.
Prior responsibility for developing & coaching buyer level staff.
SAP experience and proficient in Microsoft software.

Personal Qualities:

Essential:
Be able to organise priorities & plan time effectively.
Have a forceful & self assured stance which is based on substance.
Good communication skills - verbal & written.
Be able to use influencing skills to bring the right people together to deliver results.
Be resolute in focussing on results and if they are threatened be prepared to tackle any problems or conflicts which get in the way, dealing with people despite their feelings or importance.
Develop trust & credibility with others & be willing to smooth relationships & advise & assist other disciplines in ascertaining the root cause, identify & develop practical solutions and communicate the findings.
Working as part of team & being structured in approach.

Desirable:
Be reliable & trustworthy.
Will take into account views of others and consult widely.
Consider problems as a challenge, collect information relevant to the problem, and deliver an acceptable outcome in situations which involve the new & unexpected.

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.

Candidates must be degree qualified & have exceptional experience of UK & overseas food ingredients sourcing.
They will have strong management experience & a good understanding of the food manufacturing process. Experience of working with a mult-site organisation would be beneficial.
Will have excellent negotiation & numeracy skills.

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.