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Fish & Seafood Buyer
Overall Purpose of the Role
- As the buyer for Fish & Seafood, you will support and develop the end-to-end procurement process for this category
- You will be responsible for planning, negotiating and executing contract renewals as well as managing supplier relationships
- Commercially you will be expected to support our overarching company strategy to drive volume growth, negotiate sustainable terms & provide value and benefit to our company Clients and GPO’s
- You will be key to supporting our CSR commitments, following our sourcing standards during the procurement process
- You will engage with our culinary teams and development chefs to support their client’s food strategies by providing products to meet their requirements
Key Responsibilities
- You will support the Proteins Category Manager to develop and execute a long-term category strategy to deliver sustainable improvements in terms of cost, quality, service and innovation, in collaboration with the company procurement team & other relevant business stakeholders
- Identifying potential suppliers, visiting, and meeting existing suppliers, building, and maintaining relationships
- You will understand key cost drivers, industry trends and standard methodologies to design/implement the category strategy for the fish & seafood category
- Develop and maintain long-term pricing mechanisms across the fish & seafood supply base to drive sustainable competitive advantage.
- You will support our supply chain team to ensure on-time direct supply and supply via distributor aligned to SLA’s.
- Ensure your product range is compliant with food safety regulations & CSR requirements, ensuring high quality standards always.
- You will be accountable for your category spend.
- Evaluating bids with the companies sourcing team and making recommendations based on commercial, technical, supply and quality requirements, using your category expertise and knowledge.
- You will communicate industry trends across the business.
- Regularly review supplier performance to support category growth.
- Manage category related queries from internal and external stakeholders.
- Support our sales and bid teams with content
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Candidate Profile
- Results Oriented – comfortable delivering against bold and stretching targets.
- Some experience in procurement/sourcing.
- Has the technical skill combined with enough gravitas to become recognised as a subject matter expert.
- Competent with procurement systems, ideally having used these in current/previous employment.
- Demonstrated ability to develop credible business relationships.
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Ideal skills and experience required
- Strong decision maker, with good commercial acumen who is comfortable working under pressure
- Effective interpersonal skills – excellent negotiator and strong communication and influencing skills.
- Ability to influence - not afraid to challenge across all levels of seniority.
- Strong communication skills – able to communicate concisely and steer conversation towards decisions needed.
- Strong analytical skills with advanced knowledge of Excel.
- Proven ability to reduce costs against tough market conditions.
- Problem solving – ability to work independently to solve challenging problems.
- Confident presenter.
- Evidence of an ability to work cross-functionally.
- Ambitious high performer with enthusiasm, energy, passion and resilience.
- High sensitivity to deadlines and providing information in a timely manner
For more information email nick on nick@greatjobsuk.com
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Skills
Procurement
Sourcing
Negotiation
Supplier Relationship Management
Category Strategy
Contract Management
Commercial Acumen
Analytical Skills
Excel
Food Safety Regulations
CSR Compliance
Stakeholder Management
Problem Solving
Presentation Skills
Cross-functional Collaboration
Cost Reduction
Location