Packaging Buyer

Nomad Foods; Woking; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 25%

Job summary

Nomad Foods in the UK is seeking a Packaging Buyer to support the procurement strategy for the Ingredients team, ensuring sustainable and ethical sourcing while optimizing costs and maintaining quality.

You will manage supplier relationships, benchmark market trends, and drive annual productivity gains across packaging categories. This role requires proactive stakeholder management across multiple functions in a fast-paced FMCG environment.

Qualifications

• Buying or Procurement experience is essential.
• Packaging experience will be preferred.
• Experience within FMCG or Retail buying preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and proactive in communication.
• Proven record of delivering cost savings and improve commercial value.

Responsibilities

• Maximise end to end value by optimising supplier base and standardising terms.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through supplier collaboration.
• Forecast price trends using market intelligence for negotiations.
• Deliver annual productivity and cost reductions targets.
• Source goods and services ethically and sustainably.
• Build supplier relationships and manage performance.
• De-risk supply chain and ensure supplier compliance.
• Lead supplier selection and category management.
• Deliver procurement actions on time.

Skills

Procurement experience

Stakeholder management

Cost savings delivery

Negotiation

Job description

Competitive salary, up to 25% bonus and benefits

We have an excellent opportunity available for you to grow your career and make a difference at Nomad Foods! Joining us as a Packaging Buyer, you’ll be supporting the procurement strategy for the Ingredients team to maximise cost savings whilst maintaining standards.

About the role…

The role supports the execution of the procurement strategy for Packaging by ensuring business requirements are met through procuring goods and services in a sustainable and ethical way, whilst optimising costs, maintaining quality standards and mitigating supply chain risks.

Delivers Commercial Value

• Maximises end to end value creation by optimising the supplier base, leveraging our scale, harmonising specifications for goods/services and standardising payment and other contractual terms with suppliers
• Continuously strives to identify ways to unlock value, working collaboratively with suppliers to identify what both parties can do to sustainably reduce costs
• Uses market intelligence to forecast both price and market trends, leveraging this knowledge in negotiations with suppliers to deliver value
• Owns the delivery of annual targets for productivity improvements, materials productivity and reductions in COGs for the segment

Sources goods & services in a sustainable and ethical way

• Minimises the environmental impact of our supply chain by working with the Sustainability Team to define the sustainable and ethical sourcing action plan for the category and taking ownership of its delivery
• Proactively builds supply chain resilience, taking proactive steps to de-risk our supply chain through the identification and resolution of risks
• Leads the process to identify and select appropriate and compliant suppliers for their category
• Owns the management of supplier relationships, tailoring the approach by category, subsegment or product as required
• Measures and tracks supplier performance, proactively resolving any issues - quality, service or cost - whilst ensuring supplier compliance with internal policies and external regulations and laws

* Where a supplier provides goods/services across multiple segments, then the Buyer with the highest spend will take the lead on managing the relationship and/or managing the rationalisation/insourcing discussions

Delivers project outcomes on time and in full

• Enables successful project outcomes by proactively engaging with other teams, bringing insights from market intelligence and supplier performance to inform decisions, and taking ownership for delivery of procurement actions

About you…

We need a proactive self-starter who can build strong, meaningful relationships with stakeholders across multiple functions and multiple geographies. A persuasive manner with the ability to both challenge and influence internal stakeholders and suppliers alike are crucial. The role requires the ability to work across a large number of SKUs in a fast-paced, but structured, environment, together with a strong bias for action to deliver against both deadlines and financial targets.

The curiosity and appetite to challenge the status-quo are essential to succeed.

• Buying or Procurement experience is essential.
• Packaging experience will be preferred.
• Experience within FMCG or Retail buying preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and proactive in communication.
• Proven record of delivering cost savings and improve commercial value.

What we can offer you…

• An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
• A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference.
• The potential to progress your career across different areas of the Nomad Foods Group

We’re on an exceptional adventure and offer a truly purpose led career. We aim to empower each employee and promote their personal growth all the while ensuring business needs are met now and into the future.

Who are we…

Headquartered in the UK, with revenues of €2.9 billion and operations in 22 key markets, Nomad Foods is Europe's leading frozen food company. We are a young company, founded only eight years ago, and built around a number of iconic brands (including Birds Eye, Findus and iglo and more recently Ledo and Frikom) that invented the frozen category 100 years ago and continue to set the bar for great taste, nutrition, convenience and affordability. Across everything we do, we are guided by our Purpose - Serving the World with Better Food - and how we can make a positive impact on our Performance, People and the Planet.

At Nomad Foods we're proud to represent the world we serve by hiring diverse talent. Our inclusive culture is all about what we can achieve together.