Company: NJR RECRUITMENT
Job Type: Permanent, FullTime
Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 per annum
Category Manager - Foodservice
Greater Manchester - Hybrid Working
£45,000 - £60,000 plus benefits
Our client, a fun and friendly business who offer procurement solutions to a variety of industries, now have an exciting opportunity for a Category Manager to join their team in Greater Manchester.
The successful candidate must have experience with Brakes and / or Bidfood - as a supplier, customer, buyer, etc
Job Purpose:
- To be responsible for implementing the procurement strategies set by the Purchasing and other business Directors within the organisation to deliver tangible results for the organisation.
- Your primary responsibility will be to manage the supply base, negotiating competitive pricing, monitoring KPI’s and ensuring adherence to contractual terms.
- To work closely with the Purchasing Director, keeping them informed on all customer, supplier and team matters.
Key Tasks:
- Oversee the supply base monitoring ongoing contractual and KPI compliance.
- Identifying procurement opportunities to increase business effectiveness, efficiency, productivity and reduce cost.
- To leverage maximum benefit from the supply base through the application of negotiation and competitive tendering processes.
- To manage the product cost on behalf of the client stakeholders putting in place cost mitigation strategies where appropriate.
- To ensure the price lists are accurate and sent out in a timely manner resolving queries as they arise.
- Liaise with actively managed suppliers undertaking quarterly scorecards with key suppliers.
- Sourcing new products and services as required, putting in place contractual terms which can be used by the sales team to extend the current business base.
- Putting in place and managing promotional activity at an organisational and client level.
- Write and review contractual terms to ensure maximum commercial benefit to the organisational and its clients.
- Ensuring knowledge is up to date with marketplace information, (cost, innovations, supplier)
- Scoping and defining purchasing projects, then assuming end-to-end responsibility for their execution (including benefits realisation).
- Producing and maintaining formal activity plans and managing assigned resources (both internal and external) to ensure successful delivery to agreed budgets and timescales.
- Development of the ideology for social diversification and environmental awareness within the supply chain.
- Managing the production of management reports for both internal and external use ensuring they are fit for purpose, accurate and delivered in a timely way.
- Liaising cross functionally to ensure systems are maintained and accurate at all times.
Experience Required:
- CIPS qualified (full or part).
- Experience of catering and retail procurement is essential.
- Analytical, numerical and fact based.
- Influencing skills and commercial negotiation.
- Strategic sourcing knowledge.
- Good contract and supplier management skills.
- High-energy, enthusiastic self-starter capable of autonomous working.
- Business focused, process led, benefits driven, results orientated.
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- Excellent communication and relationship/team building skills.
- Strong influencing, facilitation skills.
- Advanced Excel knowledge
- Astute and commercial awareness.
- Capability of taking on customer facing roles as well as suppliers.
Apply online or for further information contact one of our specialist consultants quoting reference number: NJR14781