buyer

buyer Chester, England

Compass Group
Full Time Chester, England 34320 - 12.04 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

What you'll be doing:
Foodbuy is a leading food procurement organisation based in the UK. With over £1bn of managed spend, we bring together the widest range of foodservice and hospitality clients on the planet to buy food, and everything associated with it. We work closely with our clients to deliver expert procurement services saving them both time and money and enabling them to focus on what really matters to their businesses.

As a Category Buyer, you will manage the entire end to end procurement process for your category on behalf of NHS Supply Chain: Food. You will manage all category supplier relationships, engage and support a wide range of stakeholders and execute best sourcing procurement processes in accordance with the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

You will manage all stages of the NHSSC: Food Procurement Framework from strategy definition and creation to the tendering process and launch, all the way through to supplier relationship management and continuous improvement.

More about the role:
You will contribute to the team’s continued success by building and implementing market leading and innovative category strategies that enables NHS Supply Chain: Food to optimise its buying power across all markets, building insight for negotiations and market knowledge and conducting industry analysis to support business stakeholders with commercial understanding of the market place within a highly progressive and fast paced environment.

You will be passionate about your category and motivated to ensure that we meet our team targets and KPI’s to deliver value to our client and drive savings for the NHS, whilst also ensuring we deliver growth to our supplier partners through engagement and performance management.

You will be a great communicator who will be able to develop strong relationships with all stakeholders and be able to work cross functionally to ensure we deliver for our client.

In return, we offer each individual clearly defined career pathways, L&D programmes and progression opportunities to support you in your long-term career aspirations.

What we’ll give:
We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

Contributory pension scheme

Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes

Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more

Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more

Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster

Receive Wow Points every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands

Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes

You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families

Who you are:
Results Oriented – comfortable to support the dairy category to deliver against bold and stretching targets

Experience in food procurement/sourcing

Has the desire to become a subject matter expert across a category of choice

Competent with procurement systems, ideally having used these in current/previous employment

Demonstrated ability to develop credible business relationships

Passion for Food or Dairy

Able to make decisions and able to work under pressure

Good communicator

Personable

Good analytical skills with good knowledge of Excel

Problem solving – a self-starter with the ability to work independently to solve challenging problems

Competent presenter

Evidence of an ability to work cross-functionally

Ambitious with excess enthusiasm, energy, passion, and resilience

High sensitivity to deadlines and providing information in a timely manner

buyer
Compass Group

www.compass-group.com
Chertsey, United Kingdom
Dominic Blakemore
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Catering & Food Service Contractors
1941
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