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About the role

• This is a full-time role, however flexibility in this will be considered
• We know that having a work-life balance is important, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role
• The base location for this role is Greggs House, Quorum Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 8BU, Ideally, you’ll live within one hour travel of this area

What you'll do

• Negotiating Commercial and Contractual terms for Food ingredients
• Obtaining value for money ensuring that key research, monitoring and evaluation is completed to ensure value is maintained
• Developing key relationships with suppliers to ensure the plc receives commercially attractive terms ahead of the market average
• Managing and resolving day to day issues with suppliers in a timely and effective manner
• Taking ownership for, and driving, cost saving initiatives throughout the business in key areas of responsibility
• Identifying and negotiating appropriate specifications and SLAs for all food supplied
• Adhere, support and contribute to our Responsible Sourcing processes and goals
• Reviewing processes and standards to maintain customer focus and ensuring best practice is achieved
• Maintaining good relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers.

About you

You will fit right into this role if you have/ are:

• The ability to demonstrate experience of negotiation or experience within the Food Industry would be an advantage
• Ability to research key cost drivers and ensure that procurement of items are undertaken accordingly
• Interest in food and an understanding of the role of ingredients / products in manufacturing and retailing
• Highly numerate and literate with strong analytical skills
• Team orientated with a passion for achieving both personal and collaborative objectives
• Computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 suite and ideally SAP
• Planning and organising skills with experience of dealing with multiple tasks simultaneously
• A can-do attitude and flexibility to working hours is required

About Greggs

Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun! What makes Greggs so special is our culture – the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We're hard-working, but above all else we're family; and it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us! We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views.

Vacancy Information

We have a fantastic opportunity to join the Procurement team at Greggs as a Buyer.

Our Procurement team based in Newcastle have a Vision of World Class Procurement. They responsibly source £ 350 million of food both as Ingredients for our Manufacturing facilities and for direct sale within our circa 1800 shops and are committed to continuously delivering optimum value. The successful candidate will need to be able to build effective relationships with both suppliers and internal stakeholders, ensuring that the appropriate quality and quantity of raw material is available, when and where required. Using our E Procurement platform as a framework they will be responsible for managing a specific portfolio of Suppliers and Ingredients while being able to embrace continuous improvement and have a good grasp of ethical considerations. The role will have Product and Supplier responsibility. As part of the Team there will also be a requirement to assist in the resolution of daily issues.

This is a great opportunity for someone to develop a Purchasing career across a broad number of categories. The successful candidate will need to effectively communicate with both suppliers and internal stakeholders,

It is expected that the successful candidate will have had some experience, but as this is a development role, they will be supported to gain experience both on and off the job with structured training and coaching.

We can offer you:

• 25 days (5 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays), plus 1 additional floating day

• Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 10% of your salary

• Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our employees who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year

• Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants

• Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme

• You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages

• Defined contribution management pension scheme

• Death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary

• Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products

• Share save schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits

• Career progression and learning and development

• Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with financial, relationship, work-related and wellbeing issues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Including a mobile app providing a range of wellness content on physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing

• Perks and savings, such as digital gift card discounts, online cashback, in-store and online coupons and lifestyle offers

• Cycle to Work scheme

• A company who cares about our communities; the environment and being a better business! Click here to read about The Greggs Pledge

• Colleague Networks – internal groups where colleagues and their allies can share their own experiences, offer feedback on the way we do things at Greggs, and provide support to one another