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Purchasing Manager

Employer
Vitae Selection Ltd.
Location
The South
Salary
£40,000 + Bonus + Excellent Flexible Benefits Package
Closing date
18 Nov 2014

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Buying

Job Details

Purchasing Manager - Purchasing & Procurement

FMCG: Food Manufacturing

Based: The South

Basic Salary Circa: £40,000 + Bonus + Fully Expensed Car + 25 Days Holiday + Pension Scheme + Life Assurance x 3 + Family Private Healthcare

My client is a market leading FMCG business with an exceptional track record in employee investment. An excellent opportunity has arisen to be immersed in the procurement of a nominated sector, across a variety of goods and services, establishing and maintaining the supply of manufactured products, in line with the company’s strategy.

The Role:

  • Reporting to the Procurement Director you will have daily responsibility for ensuring; OTIF, quality and continuity across all purchasing functions.
  • Pan European sourcing to identify new suppliers. This will involve occasional European travel.
  • To ensure optimisation of market pricing across all categories.
  • Generate weekly reports ahead of the weekly progress meeting with the Procurement Director.
  • Identify savings across all categories under your responsibility.
  • Ideally you will expect career advancement within 2 years of joining the business as the business is enjoying exceptional growth and favours promoting from within.

The Requirements:

  • Ideally an FMCG background within Procurement or Purchasing.
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent, MCIPS is desirable.
  • Excellent negotiation and analytical skills
  • A confident communicator, capable of influencing and negotiating with many internal stakeholders and suppliers up to Director level.
  • Demonstrable success as a Purchasing Manager or similar.
  • A strong but fair style of operating would work well for this position.

Please apply, with an up to date CV and your current package details to; leon@vitaeselection.com

Company

The Vitae team truly understands the ferocity of today’s trading climate and the need to find and secure the very best talent embodied through an extensive network and a true commitment to the sectors.
Our combined recruitment experience within the Consumer practice gives a robust proposition to any client within our markets looking to make a serious investment in talent.

Vitae’s approach is a combination of both Search and Selection services. We have a thorough understanding of HR policy and procedure and regularly work as a preferred supplier to selected clients. Our team has worked on high profile single search mandates for senior permanent moves as well as high quality Interim hires together with multiple hire projects requiring well-co-ordinated advertising campaigns to deliver large scale teams. Our candidates benefit greatly from our insight into different business cultures together with our proactive model in finding and matching candidates to jobs. Our professionalism and delivery within these sectors in backed up by overwhelmingly positive feedback from both our clients and candidates.


Vitae work with a range of clients including large Global Food Brand’s, Plc.’s, Major Own label producers, Corporations, Owner Managed Firms and Private Equity backed businesses.


Core Markets


• Food & Drinks- Branded & Own Label
• Consumer Goods – Non- Food, White & Brown goods, Sporting Goods
• Ingredients – Flavour systems, Food Ingredients
• Retail- Grocery, General merchandise
• Packaging- Corrugated, Cartons, Closures, Plastics, Film, GNFR, Flexible and Injection Molding

Company info
Telephone
0113 394 4950
Location
21 York Place
Leeds
LS1 2EX
GB

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