Senior Food Buyer - Wholesale
- Employer
- Spirit Resourcing Group
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
- Salary
- Competitive salary + Car and Benefits
- Closing date
- 10 Mar 2016
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Buying, Supply Chain & Logistics
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Job Details
A leading food wholesaler is looking for an experienced Buyer to take on a key role within a mature Commercial Team.
The Opportunity
You will take on a category focused role within a well-established purchasing team, taking on a sizeable spend portfolio, with the goal of increasing the profitability and commercial viability of the category.
By tracking market trends and staying aware of innovations in your category, you will help to maintain a complete offering for all types of customers.
You will maintain good working relationships with your suppliers, whilst ensuring commercial viability through appropriate strategy, including rebate generation, range reviews, promotion planning, and efficient product sourcing.
The Benefits
This is a full time, permanent position, suited to an ambitious candidate, ready to take on extra responsibility, with an eagerness to influence and shape policy. In addition to basic salary, you will be eligible for a company car, generous annual leave entitlement, private healthcare, childcare vouchers, a market leading pension package and more.
To Interview
You will be commercially astute, with proven negotiation skills, and experience in a customer facing role. You will have held category or account ownership over a sizeable food spend. Strong candidates will be comfortable communicating and negotiating at all levels.
You will have an appreciation of the demands of a fast paced Supply Chain, and have some familiarity with the unique challenges that food Supply Chains can create.
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Company
Spirit's Retail & Consumer Division provides recruitment services for the Retail & FMCG markets and has four areas of specialism; Buying & Merchandising, Commercial Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain.
Our candidate insight methodology helps our customers achieve a greater understanding of candidate cultural and behaviour suitability, earlier in the recruitment process, than traditional external and internal recruitment practice.
We are based in the City of London and provide services to our customers and candidates on a national basis.
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