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Food Buyer

Employer
Lime Talent
Location
England, London
Salary
£60000 per annum
Closing date
24 Jul 2017

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

Job Details



This is an exciting opportunity for a Food Buyer to join an excellent high street food business. Our client is experiencing exceptional growth and are now looking for someone passionate about buying and driven to build a successful career. You will have great responsibility for sourcing products and maximising sales to meet internal budget obligations.

Food Buyer Responsibilities:
  • Working in a small team of buyers sourcing the most exciting and inventive products the industry has to offer
  • Building strong collaborative relationships with leading suppliers
  • Negotiating the best commercial terms for our client and contribute to the winning culture
  • Building relationships with internal stakeholders such as Sales, Marketing, Planning and Production
  • Managing the supply of our client's partners
  • Work in tandem with the logistics and supply chain teams to look out for areas of enhancement


To be a successful Food Buyer:
  • Passionate about food and a genuine interest in progressing a career in buying.
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Graduate calibre or equivalent
  • Ability work on your own and as part of a team
  • Highly analytical
  • Proficient with MS Office


This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly expanding business where everyone is passionate about the mission and success of the company. As a Food Buyer, you will receive excellent training and exposure to some high calibre and leading people in the FMCG industry. As the business is growing so rapidly, your career progression opportunities will be phenomenal. If this sounds exciting please send us your CV.

Lime Talent is a recruitment agency specialising in the consumer goods industry. To view a broader selection of our current vacancies go to www.limetalentgroup.com or call us on 0207 042 3800.

The Lime Talent team always review and process job applications swiftly. However due to the high volume of CVs that we receive online, we regrettably are not always able to respond to every applicant individually. If you've not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately on this occasion your application has not been successful.

Lime Talent Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Company

We are Lime Talent, a recruitment agency specialising in the consumer goods industry. With over 25 years’ combined experience of recruiting within the FMCG, consumer goods & services sectors, we like to think we know our stuff! We are here to make finding your next job or your next superstar employee an easy and pleasurable experience.

We are an honest and straight talking bunch with a can-do attitude. We aren’t going to say the usual thing that recruiters say, like “we want to partner with you”, as whilst that may be nice, what we really want to do, is to deliver you real results in the shortest amount of time possible. Once we have provided you with the high level of service that you can expect from us, we are confident that strong relationships will follow.

 Areas that we recruit:

• Sales

• Marketing

• Category Management and Insights

• Purchasing and Buying

• Supply Chain

Contact us today to discuss your next career move or to find out how we can help you find the best talent for your business.

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Telephone
020 7042 3800

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