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Location:
Blackburn
Salary:
£45,000 per year
Recruiter:
Pets Choice
Job Hours:
Full-time
We are looking for a Strategic Buyer to join our procurement team at Pets Choice
This is a new role to support our growing business that will focus on sourcing materials, commodities and ingredients which will be used at our Pet Food manufacturing sites in Blackburn.
Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
Duties include
- Develop innovative supplier partnerships to support a lean and profitable supply chain.
- Manage supplier performance and implement scorecard to align business objectives on cost, quality OTIF, lead-times etc.
- Identify areas of risk in the supply chain, prioritise and implement plans to mitigate such risks.
- Conduct contract negotiation and ongoing market (price) analysis and report conclusions.
- Prepare requests for Tender (RFQ’s) and documentation.
- Collation and reporting of cost saving against targets and track impact of profitability.
- Responsible for accurate item costs into P&L.
- Conduct logistic analysis to determine most cost effective and efficient methods with both suppliers and customers (cost to serve)
- Drive business and industry compliance aligning with the Technical department.
- Supplier visits.
- Provide support to the business during execution of larger projects, including NPD and innovation pipeline.
What are we looking for?
- Previous experience in a similar role with a proven track record of delivering savings.
- Contract negotiation skills.
- Confident communicator.
- Team player.
- Organised with attention to detail.
- Relationship building with both internal & external stakeholders.
- Resilient with a proactive approach.
- Computer literate.
- Experience gained from the Food or Pet Food Industry is highly desirable.
Hybrid working in Blackburn Head Office 3 days per week / WFH 2 days per week.
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