Buyer (Finished Goods)

Princes Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car Parking Pass

25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

A day off for your Birthday

Flexible Holiday Option - buy 5 days

14.5% Pension (5% Employee, 9.5% E m p

Life Insurance Policy

Private Medical Insurance

Critical Illness Cover

Job summary

Princes Group in Liverpool is seeking a Procurement Manager (Finished Goods) to lead category management and strategic sourcing across finished goods. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop sourcing plans and drive cost savings while ensuring sustainable, ethical supplier relationships.

The role requires managing spend lifecycle, using SAP analytics, and supporting governance. Travel UK and overseas is expected; hybrid workplace available.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of category management and strategic sourcing.
• Experience building supplier development programs and value chain mapping.
• Knowledge of contract principles and ability to interpret agreements.
• Experience with SAP analytics and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Create and develop category and sourcing plans with business stakeholders.
• Utilise SAP Ariba/ERP tools to conduct sourcing and document cost savings.
• Drive partnerships for long-term supply continuity and growth.
• Lead negotiations to obtain the lowest total cost of ownership.
• Manage supplier relationships and SRM metrics across categories.

Skills

Category management

Strategic sourcing

Supplier development

Value chain mapping

SAP analytics

Contract principles

Microsoft Office

Education

Degree level qualification

CIPS qualification

Tools

SAP analytics

Microsoft Office

Job description

Role Description

Procurement Manager (Finished Goods)

Liverpool

The Role Of The Procurement Manager Is To:

• Strategically source goods and services to improve quality and provide for innovative opportunities at the lowest total cost of ownership.
• Collaborate, create, publish and implement comprehensive category management strategies and lead cross functional teams in delivery.
• Ensure all goods and services are sourced responsibly in line with regulatory, ethical, technical, sustainability and customer requirements.
• Be a consultative partner, demonstrating knowledge across spend categories and providing insight to support and help to shape strategy.
• Be a champion for business processes and governance and support the Head of Finished Goods Procurement with the development of other colleagues.

Dimensions:

• External contacts – Suppliers & Customers.
• Internal contacts – Commercial/ Revenue Growth Management, Customer Strategy and Planning, Innovation, Sales, Finance, Corporate Relations, Operations, Planning, Technical.
• Travel will be required in this role.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Create and develop category and sourcing plans in conjunction with business stakeholders.
• Utilise the SAP Ariba business network to conduct and document sourcing activities and the delivery of cost savings.
• Drive partnership strategy as appropriate to ensure long term collaborative business growth planning and ensuring continuity of supply.
• Obtain the lowest possible total cost of ownership through negotiation, market intelligence and supplier knowledge.
• Conduct regular reviews with key stakeholders and provide regular reporting on key initiatives including cost reduction projects.
• Communicate market conditions in a timely fashion and in a way that is clear and concise for both internal and external understanding.
• Utilise ERP system to drive analytics and provide appropriate reports for use within category plans and for sharing and analysis with appropriate teams.
• Utilise appropriate tools to maximise value delivery (e-auctions, should cost modelling, TCO, value lever analysis)
• Demonstrate commercial awareness and lead negotiations across all allocated areas of third party spend.
• Develop a network of strong supplier relationships that create innovative opportunities to drive value.
• Make use of SRM tools and performance measures to drive supplier effectiveness.
• Maximise opportunities to mitigate risk across area of spend responsibility.
• Manage all aspects of spend throughout the life cycle.
• Operate as a subject matter expert across all allocated spend and act as a trusted partner to the business.
• Excellent working knowledge of the key personnel at each major supplier, their processes, internal systems and moreover understand cost drivers.
• Drive working capital reduction across the category.
• Develop and maintain responsible suppliers ensuring they are maintained to a standard to meet Princes / Industry standards (e.g. BRC).
• Ensure all suppliers comply with Princes ethical standards, are SEDEX registered (where appropriate) and may be audited.
• Manage contracts professionally and accurately, while maintaining cost conditions and source lists.
• Control currency requirements in line with group policy if required.
• Professionally resolve problems both internally and externally in a fair and ethical manner while protecting the long-term interests of the team and company.
• Support fully the efforts of other departments in achieving 100% stakeholder satisfaction.

Role Requirements

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Thorough understanding of procurement processes and frameworks

Essential

• Previous Experience in a Category Management role
• Excellent working understanding of category management, strategic sourcing, supplier development and value chain mapping
• Excellent working knowledge of allocated areas of spend
• Understanding of contract principles and clauses and be able to construct and interpret agreements
• SAP analytics and reporting
• Associate or student of CIPS, or working to CIPS qualification

Desired

• Degree level qualification, ideally business related
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Willingness to travel UK and overseas

Benefits:

• Car Parking Pass
• 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• A day off for your Birthday
• Flexible Holiday Option - buy 5 days holiday
• 14.5% Pension (5% Employee, 9.5% Employer) Opt-In
• Life Insurance Policy
• Private Medical Insurance
• Critical Illness Cover

Country United Kingdom

Location Liverpool

Business Area Commercial

Workplace Type Hybrid

About Princes

The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.