Buyer - New Product Development

Greencore Group Lts; Worksop; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic NPD Buyer to drive food innovation solutions. This role involves sourcing safe and competitive raw materials while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business strategies. You will manage a lead buying portfolio and contribute to the innovation agenda, ensuring timely delivery and compliance with procurement objectives. Join a vibrant team that values diversity and offers opportunities for personal and professional growth, making every day taste better. Your passion for food and stakeholder management skills will be key to your success in this exciting position.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Qualifications

• Degree calibre or equivalent required.
• Food knowledge and passion essential for the role.

Responsibilities

• Lead effective NPD sourcing of new raw materials.
• Manage a portfolio of Lead Buying areas ensuring compliance.

Skills

Food knowledge

Cross-functional stakeholder management

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Buyer - New Product Development (029066) Worksop, England

Why Greencore?

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Location for this position is flexible.

What you'll be doing

We are looking for an NPD (New Product Development) Buyer to source safe, commercially competitive, and great-tasting food in line with procurement strategies to provide food innovation solutions for the business. To do this, you will manage a small lead buying portfolio for Greencore.

• Lead the effective and accurate NPD sourcing on new raw materials in line with business requirements, contributing ideas and information, and ensuring timely delivery of requirements to the Product Development teams.
• In-depth supplier knowledge of sourcing area and avoidance of margin creep through product churn.
• Ensure products are sourced in alignment with Greencore Purchasing Excellence, procurement strategy, and objectives; and the process is compliant with the internal functional processes.
• Represent NPD buying and/or lead specific projects that contribute to our strategic innovation agenda, identifying suppliers and sourcing ingredients in line with the strategy.
• Act as the conduit between the innovation category teams and the lead buyers for your sourcing areas to ensure future innovation strategy is aligned with consumer, customer, and business needs.
• Manage a portfolio of Lead Buying areas within the function, ensuring compliance to systems and processes, monitoring and managing risks relating to material availability and input cost inflation.
• Maintenance of a pipeline library of innovation or great products for the sourcing area that is easily accessible to customer teams.

What we’re looking for

• Degree calibre or equivalent.
• Food knowledge and passion.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office systems.
• Cross-functional stakeholder management experience. These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

If this sounds like you, join us, grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• 25 days holiday.
• Pension up to 8% matched.
• Company share save scheme.
• Greencore Qualifications.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.