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Procurement Manager
At PROPER SNACKS, we're looking for a Procurement Manager to join our fast-growing Procurement team and drive our strategy for innovation and commercial success. In this critical role, you'll lead our contract manufacturing base, ensuring our NPD pipeline is supported by robust supplier strategies, competitive pricing, and supply chain resilience—directly impacting our margins, speed-to-market, and business growth.
This hybrid role can be based in either London or Nuneaton, with a requirement for regular travel—London-based candidates will need a weekly presence in Nuneaton (a 1-hour train ride).
The Person
We’re looking for a commercially astute procurement specialist who:
- Thrives on value creation anddeep supplier partnerships.
- Is proactive and strategic, constantly seeking ways to strengthen supply chains, reduce costs, and unlock opportunities through smarter sourcing.
- Operates confidently in a high-growth environment, thrives under pressure, and excels at influencing stakeholders.
- Has a problem-solving mindset and delivers clarity and structure to complex decisions.
The Role
You’ll play a pivotal role in leading procurement for our NPD pipeline, managing contract manufacturing relationships, and driving strong commercial outcomes, supplier performance, and supply chain resilience across all new product launches.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Own and manage relationships with our contract manufacturing partners.
- Implement structured supplier relationship management, including performance scorecards and evaluations.
- Lead end-to-end sourcing: supplier selection, commercial negotiations, and onboarding for all NPD activities.
- Collaborate closely with NPD, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams to support swift new product launches.
- Conduct commercial due diligence to ensure robust supplier selection and competitive pricing.
- Build and maintain a deep market understanding of contract manufacturing capabilities and capacity.
- Proactively identify new suppliers to support innovation and dual-sourcing strategies.
- Mitigate supply chain risks, reducing reliance on sole-sourced suppliers.
- Deliver cost savings, value engineering initiatives, and margin improvements.
- Monitor market trends and supplier performance to identify risks and opportunities.
- Support capacity planning and forecasting with key manufacturing partners.
Requirements
- Proven experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain roles, with a preference for FMCG.
- Managing contract manufacturers or external production partners.
- Strong commercial acumen, demonstrated negotiation expertise.
- Experience supporting NPD or innovation pipelines.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with both internal stakeholders and suppliers.
- Analytical mindset with a track record of interpreting data and market insights.
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About PROPER SNACKS
PROPER SNACKS is the home of PROPER and Eat Real—the UK’s fastest-growing major snacks company.
We’re a diverse team of builders, thinkers, creators, and makers. Based across London and Nuneaton, we’re redefining snacking across Europe. Our people are:
- Insatiably curious and entrepreneurial
- Unsettled by inertia—we scale fast, dream big, and back our teams to make things happen
Our values keep us grounded:
- Be builder.
- Dream bigger.
- Approach everything with serious fun.
Explore what life at PROPER SNACKS is like—where ideas take flight, and every bag is made with purpose.
Offices:
- London: Drummond Street, NW1 3HP
- Nuneaton: Townsend Drive, CV11 6TJ
Our Approach
We are an equal opportunities employer. Diversity is central to our success. We value all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive culture.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment or interview process, please let us know.
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