Procurement Manager - Capital

Greencore Group plc; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Company pension contributions

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore Group plc is recruiting a Procurement Manager - Capex at our Leeds head office. You will own the commercial aspects of Capex projects, manage supplier performance and drive value for money across multiple spend categories.

Working with stakeholders across Greencore, you will lead negotiations, select suppliers, and contract management for capital investments, ensuring service levels and risk are aligned with business needs. A driving licence is required.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Take a strategic category view to manage areas of spend, identify savings opportunities, and drive consistency across Greencore.
• Project manage the delivery of initiatives to address a business need or to create additional value.
• Negotiating and implementing contracts when needed, ensuring each contract is appropriately tailored to the requirements of the business.

Skills

Indirect procurement

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Contract negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Experience in capital expenditure across manufacturing and civil sectors is essential,knowledge of JCT contracts is desirable.

This role is based at our head office in Leeds Broad Gate, and candidates must hold a valid driving licence.

Role Purpose:

Procurement Manager - Capex. 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

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary andjobrelatedbenefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• 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 withon the jobtraining and development opportunities to further your career.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.