Food Buyer
- Employer
- Lime Talent
- Location
- England, London, City of London
- Salary
- £50000 - £60000 per annum + + Bonus + Benefits
- Closing date
- 31 Oct 2019
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Buying
Job Details
This is a great opportunity for a real foodie to join an innovative and successful food business. Reporting to Senior Management you will be responsible for sourcing high quality food ingredients whilst negotiating the best commercial terms.
This is an exciting business where all employees are passionate about the brand and product. Our client is looking for ambitious candidates with commerciality and drive but also a passion for food and a great understanding of the customer. Our client is also focused on sustainability and ethical sourcing. You must be able to demonstrate effective relationship building skills with suppliers and a collaborative approach to working.
Food Buyer Responsibilities:
- Source a range of innovative and customer focused food products.
- Work cross functionally with other internal departments
- Responsible for category spend of circa £40m
- Negotiate with suppliers whilst building long term relationships
To be a successful Food Buyer you must have:
- Experience working in a food buying role from a Retail or Foodservice environment
- Strong negotiation skills
- Highly analytical with good presentation skills
- Preferably CIPS qualified
This is a medium sized business so the ability to build relationships internally is essential, you will be in regular contact with other departments including Marketing, Product Development and Operations.
If you are interested in working for a highly successful food brand with ambitious plans for growth please apply below. They offer a great working environment with lots of social events and a competitive remuneration package.
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.
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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.
- Website
- http://www.limetalentgroup.com/
- Telephone
- 020 7042 3800
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