Procurement Manager - CAPEX

Greencore; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Greencore is seeking a procurement professional to own commercial aspects and supplier performance across key spend categories in a multi-site environment.

You will balance price, service and quality, negotiate with suppliers, and contract agreements, while driving value and best practice with Greencore stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Degree calibre with indirect procurement experience.
• Experience in food manufacturing is desirable.
• Strong commercial insight with negotiation skills.
• Excellent relationship-building and influencing abilities.
• Ability to analyse data and evaluate options.
• Ability to tailor contracts to meet business risk and service needs.
• Experience coordinating multiple sites and managing multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the commercial aspects and overall supplier performance for goods and services and creates value for money.
• Pro-actively engage with stakeholders across Greencore to encourage best practice and own the commercial aspects of supplier projects.
• Build relationships with stakeholders, challenge procurement practices, and drive best procurement practice.
• Take a strategic category view to manage spend, identify savings opportunities, and drive consistency across Greencore.
• Project manage initiatives from scoping through negotiation, contracting, implementation, and supplier management.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Contract management

Multi-site coordination

Project prioritisation

Communication skills

Education

Degree calibre in procurement/commercial field

Desirable: food manufacturing experience

Job description

Responsible for the commercial aspects and overall supplier performance for goods and services purchased from suppliers for their categories of spend, and continuously creates additional value for money for Greencore. Pro-actively engage with stakeholders across Greencore to encourage best practice and owns the commercial aspects of projects that involve suppliers

Key Accountabilities:

Create additional value for money for goods and services, balancing price, service and quality and meeting the business needs through undertaking negotiations, selection of suppliers and contracting of business

• Build great relationships with stakeholders and provide professional procurement expertise and commercial focus. Be able to challenge the way Greencore do things and introduce best procurement practice. Be an ambassador for indirects procurement to change the business behaviours and culture
• Take a strategic category view to manage areas of spend, identify savings opportunities, and drive consistency across Greencore. This includes analysing spend bases, consolidating the supply base across Greencore where appropriate, driving consistent ways of working across Greencore, sourcing from fit for purpose suppliers, managing supplier performance, resolving issues, negotiating the optimum price, service and quality parameters, and agreeing contracts and service levels
• Project manage the delivery of initiatives to address a business need or to create additional value. This includes aligning multiple stakeholders, identifying the business needs and risks, project planning, running tenders, negotiation, contracting, communication, approval, implementation planning and then subsequent supplier management and issue resolution to ensure the supplier meets the contract
• Negotiating and implementing contracts when needed, ensuring each contract is appropriately tailored to the requirements of the business, including creating business appropriate service levels and addressing any specific risks and liabilities

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Degree calibre with indirect procurement experience
• Ideally have food manufacturing experience
• Excellent commercial insight combined with negotiation skills
• Ability to build good relationships with stakeholders with excellent communication and influencing skills
• Ability to analyse data, identify and evaluate options and implement recommendations
• Able to assess and adapt a contract to mitigate liabilities in line with business risk and create service levels to meet business needs
• Ability to operate in a complex multi-site environment and bring everyone on board to a single solution.
• Experience in prioritisation and ability to work on multiple projects at once