Procurement Manager - Beverage Ingredients

Costa Coffee; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading coffee brand as a Procurement Manager - Beverage Ingredients in London. This role involves driving strategic changes, managing supplier relationships, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the best beverage ingredients are sourced. Enjoy a hybrid work environment and a range of benefits, including a share investment plan and private medical cover.

Benefits

Share Investment Plan

Smart pension scheme

Financial Support Fund

50% discount in Costa stores

Private medical cover

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement execution and strategy development.
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic change across Beverage subcategories.
• Collaborate with R&D, innovation, and finance teams.
• Manage supplier relationships and performance.

Skills

Procurement strategy development

Relationship Management

Influencing

Job description

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At Costa Coffee, we are what we craft. We're reimagining coffee experiences in over 50 countries and counting, as a key part of the Coca-Cola System. Whether you get your coffee in a store, from a machine, at home, or on the go - we've got you covered.

Our teams make a difference. Whether that's working on new tech for the perfect pour, helping our teams grow, creating award-winning campaigns, crunching the numbers, or developing the latest exciting menu item; together, we stir up success.

We may be a global brand, but we haven't forgotten our roots. That's where the Costa Foundation and our fantastic community agenda come in. Whatever your role, you can help us change lives in coffee growing communities and help your local community too.

We also want to help you grow in your career through amazing experiences, our apprenticeship scheme, and development programmes. At Costa, you can go beyond the day-to-day.

And as a Procurement Manager - Beverage Ingredients, there's never been a better time to join.

So, why Costa?

We didn't become a global coffee brand by sitting back. When you work here, you join a community that values passion, progression and integrity, with some pretty brilliant perks to sweeten the deal:

• Own a piece of Costa's success by becoming a share owner in Coca-Cola with our Share Investment Plan (SIP)
• A smart pension that saves you money on tax and national insurance, and matches your contributions up to 10%
• The Costa Financial Support Fund, supporting team members who find themselves in unexpected financial pressure
• 50% discount in all Costa-owned stores, and 25% off in other participating stores
• Private medical cover thanks to our Private Healthcare scheme
• And that's not all. Explore even more of our perks here: https://bit.ly/costaperks

We're passionate about being a great place to work, where you can bring your unique self into our mix. We firmly support diversity, equity and inclusion, and continue to work with our teams to shape the future of our culture and values: Disciplined to Deliver, Passion for Progress, Win with Warmth, Courage to Challenge and Trusted Team Players.

What you'll do

Being a Procurement Manager - Beverage Ingredients is about so much more than bringing our coffee to the world. It's your chance to stir up real success - which means you'll:

• Demonstrate ownership of and drive strategic change across key Beverage sub categories, setting up beverage ingredient supply partnerships & supply routes to market fit for future growth.
• Review Commodity insights, index tracking, providing clear purchase recommendations
• Build category strategies & implement sourcing plans for short, medium & long term horizons
• Collaborate & drive evolution with key business stakeholders within R&D, innovation, category, sustainability & finance teams
• Develop a supplier management programme for critical & core suppliers, along with performance reviews & site visits
• Complete cost benchmarking, Executing RFXs, contract negotiation and continuous improvement work with key suppliers.
• Deliver committed benefits on time and to expectation - provide accurate project tracking and benefits reporting and manage and escalate issues and risks.

Who you are

It's your unique ingredients we're interested in:

• Procurement strategy development and implementation
• Sourcing plan development & implementation
• Procurement execution (business requirements analysis, market analysis, sourcing strategy, tender, negotiation, contract award, supplier management etc.)
• Relationship Management - Able to build strong, value-adding relationships with internal customers
• Ability to deliver tangible results across a range of objectives.
• Influencing - Able to communicate & influence effectively at senior / Executive levels.

Location - London - Hybrid

Other details

• Job Family UK_B Grade_SC
• Job Function (REQUIRED FIELD) UK&I Support Centre - Procurement / Supply Chain
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator Permanent

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