Livestock Buying Manager

Morrisons; Turriff; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join our Livestock team as a Buying Manager in Turriff, where you'll be responsible for sourcing livestock and maintaining supplier relationships. This pivotal role ensures high standards and involves managing a team while aligning with our customer needs. Enjoy substantial perks, including discounts and career development opportunities in a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

15% discount in store

10% discount card for a friend

Career progression opportunities

Generous holiday entitlement

Market leading pension scheme

Healthcare benefits including digital GP

MyPerks with 850+ retailers

Free parking onsite

Enhanced Family Leave

Annual bonus scheme

Private healthcare

Company Car / Car Allowance

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the livestock industry and previous buying experience.
• Proven negotiator with ability to deliver category strategy.
• Solid knowledge of retail consumer needs.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate stock buying from farmers and maintain supplier relationships.
• Ensure high quality of supplied livestock.
• Achieve Livestock KPIs and manage team performance.

Skills

Negotiation

Relationship building

Data analysis

Communication

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a vibrant individual to join our Livestock team in Turriff as a Buying Manager. This role reports into the Senior Manufacturing Manager. Come and join our high performance culture and help deliver excellence to our customers.

This role will maintain relationships with current and new suppliers, securing livestock at the given weekly price on farm or market. Delivering stock to plan, managing stakeholder relationships across the site, planning and external sales. The role will also have direct line management responsibility for 2 team members.

As a Livestock Buying Manager, you’ll:

• Buy and negotiate on stock bought direct from farmers
• Ensure Weights/Grades/Spec of Cattle & Lambs supplied is of the highest quality
• Build critical relationships with all Myton Food Group (Woodheads) suppliers. Representing the company in a fair and reputable way
• Work in conjunction with the whole central and on-site teams, to ensure that ideas are shared and the teams work as one to meet the needs of our consumer
• Source up to £450+ million of stock every year, including: beef, lamb & pork, dealing with over 3,000 suppliers
• Achieve the set Livestock KPIs
• Safeguard our business by getting closer to our customers, ensuring 100% of suppliers are visited
• Build strong relationships with our supplier base by visiting farmers regularly
• Ensure that livestock is sourced to our business needs and to the requirements of our retail consumer
• Optimise batches to ensure that stock is bought to plan, with correct delivery numbers adhered to
• Monitor supplier performance and review our publicity and marketing to tackle issues, working closely with the livestock development and admin team
• Confirm all buying on time in full as soon as possible, to conform to planning, operations and transport requirements
• Know and play a role in facilitating Myton's Welfare & Sustainability policies

About you

We're looking for someone with a strong understanding and knowledge of the Livestock industry, with previous buying experience of livestock. You will be a proven negotiator and able to deliver category strategy in a complex and competitive market.

You'll also bring:

• A solid knowledge of retail consumer needs
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to gather and use data to make decisions
• Solid communication skills
• Ability to deal with immediate changes and conflicting priorities, moving suppliers around to comply with operation needs

About us

In return for all your hard work, you will receive:

• 15% discount in store from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Generous holiday entitlement
  Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
• Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Annual bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
• Company Car / Car Allowance

You’ll find a great big welcome here at Myton Food Group - the part of our business that looks after manufacturing, whilst maintaining strong roots within Morrisons Supermarkets.

At Myton Food Group, we have a legacy to be proud of. We’re British farming’s biggest single direct customer. We buy from highly valued suppliers. And we’re passionate about the quality of our food. Today, we have 19 manufacturing sites across the UK, where we pack and process fresh meats and fish, savoury and sweet pies, fruit and veg, flower bouquets, bread and lots more.

We really do stand out in the world of food manufacturing. But what we’re especially proud of is the way we all get stuck in and work as a team, in partnership across our supply chain. Read more about what we do at our Myton Food Group website.

At Morrisons, we’re proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that’s good for our customers too.

We’re always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive and make a difference.