Procurement Controller - Poultry

Greencore; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave & menopause"

Company share save scheme

Job summary

Greencore is seeking a senior procurement leader to own poultry sourcing across the business, delivering against procurement strategies, functional plans and performance targets, while partnering with senior leadership to drive savings and ensure strong supplier performance.

You will lead a team, set sourcing strategy, manage supplier performance, oversee end-to-end procurement processes, and embed governance, risk management, sustainability and inclusion commitments in every activity.

Qualifications

• Experience of leading Poultry procurement
• Experience and knowledge of procurement systems and processes in manufacturing
• Advanced negotiation capability
• Understanding and experience of market, suppliers and materials
• Experience and understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes
• Experience working with diverse groups and strong stakeholder engagement

Responsibilities

• Lead all poultry procurement activity and drive savings
• Formulate and implement a sourcing strategy with cross-functional agreement
• Engage stakeholders with regular market and project updates
• Lead a team to deliver financial, service and people objectives
• Governance and risk management with suppliers and markets
• Support sustainability and inclusion commitments

Skills

Advanced negotiation

Stakeholder engagement

Sourcing strategy

Procurement systems

Poultry procurement

End-to-end supply chain

Value enablers

Job description

Full responsibility for Poultry sourcing across the business, ensuring delivery against procurement strategies, functional plans, and performance targets. Provide direction, and performance management to drive savings, promote best procurement practices, and ensure strong supplier performance. Act as a commercial expert and strategic partner to senior leadership, continuously improving team capability and supporting the achievement of business-wide sourcing objectives

Key Accountabilities

• Lead all procurement activity for defined sourcing areas, ensuring total portfolio cost is managed efficiently and effectively. Take a rigorous approach to negotiation, supporting others in the process and collaborating with key stakeholders and third parties to unlock and preserve value. Provide strategic leadership to the procurement team, driving savings, promoting best procurement practices, and delivering Greencore Purchasing Excellence (GPE).
• Formulate and implement a sourcing strategy to ensure that business strategies and performance targets are achieved and ensure cross functional agreement with a supporting plan. Specifically focus on cost control, business risk and sustainability. Formulate and implement supplier identification, selection and performance management processes
• Effective stakeholder engagement, including regular market and project updates. Where necessary, support inflation recovery in your area of expertise, including direct dialogue with the customer
• Stakeholder engagement with multi site teams to ensure correct levels of quality and inbound service levels are achieved. Have sound understanding of how key sites operate, and who key colleagues are to drive the procurement agenda forward.
• Where relevant, lead a team to deliver its financial, service and people vision and objectives, developing and embedding a performance culture within their team to ensure all colleagues are clearly focused on their key objectives. Develop and coach their team to improve their skills and performance, and maximise their potential.
• Ensure appropriate governance and risk management, with high level engagement around suppliers and markets to identify and mitigate emerging risks.
• Actively sponsor and commit the necessary resource and focus required to deliver our inclusion and diversity commitments, goals and targets and be a role model for inclusive leadership behaviours
• Actively sponsor and commit the necessary resource and focus required to support delivery of our sustainability commitments, goals and targets
• Actively manage organisational risk related to both Cyber Security and data, by committing the necessary focus, resource and investing in the skills and experience required to ensure compliance to relevant policies and legislation, along with taking ownership for personal and commercial data processed throughout the group * Enable the delivery of our Data Governance agenda and champion the need for high quality data in all relevant data domains. This includes taking responsibility for data policy governance, compliance to agreed data quality standards and championing a data-driven culture in the team.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experience of leading Poultry procurement
• Experience and knowledge of procurement systems and processes, ideally gained in a manufacturing environment
• Advanced negotiation capability and skill
• Understanding and experience of market, suppliers and materials
• Experience and understanding of all aspects of the end-to-end supply chain processes
• A practiced understanding of value enablers, creation and preservation
• Experience working and communicating with a diverse group of people, applying excellent stakeholder engagement skills

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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

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