Senior Buyer Ingredients

Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company is seeking a Senior Buyer to optimize procurement of an Ingredients portfolio valued at around 30 million Euros. The ideal candidate will manage vendor relationships, support sustainable sourcing initiatives, and drive negotiations to enhance the value chain. This role requires strong communication skills, a background in purchasing or supply chain, and proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. Fluency in English is essential, while knowledge of French and/or Spanish is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Purchasing/supply chain experience is required.
• Experience in procurement operations and negotiation.
• Ability to work with and meet critical deadlines with good planning and organization.

Responsibilities

• Drive and optimize procurement of an Ingredients portfolio.
• Maintain and improve Supplier relationship Management (SRM).
• Support sustainable sourcing initiatives.

Skills

Excellent relationship and communication abilities

Fluent in English

Comfortable with Excel and PowerPoint

Team player, cross‑cultural spirit

Excellence in analysis

Education

University degree in technical or economic field

Job description

As our Senior Buyer you will drive and optimize the procurement of an Ingredients portfolio of about 30 million Euros for 4 markets, while exploiting the successful management of vendor relationships to maximize the full value chain for the business and driving the innovation platform with suppliers, in line with functional, business, region & Suntory objectives.

What You'll Do

Accountability 1: Market insights & strategies improvement

• Strategy definition and implementation: from need analysis to negotiation and implementation
• Follow up market evolutions regularly to identify new risks & opportunities
• Bring & promote proactively to stakeholders relevant market information & innovations

Accountability 2: Quality & risk management

• Maintain adequate Supplier relationship Management (SRM)
• Support and improvement of Supplier evaluation analysis for the Flavours category
• Quality support and risk mitigation (risk analysis & multisourcing implementation)
• For selected strategic suppliers, sign regional legal framework agreements & register them in the system

Accountability 3: Sustainability & Innovation

• Support sustainable sourcing through various initiatives (Sedex evaluation + Agromaterials sourcing…)
• Support / Participate to inno day organization (collect trend, support R&D pipeline…)
• Be an active member of Procurement - R&D - Marketing community

Accountability 4: Budget & cost optimisation / Performance reporting

• Build, structure & organize multiple tenders
• Come up & follow a pipeline of Cost Out - Value In ideas
• Drive negotiations on all the terms & conditions including prices review with a TCO approach
• Set budget standard prices for subcategories & follow purchase price variances all over the year

Accountability 5: Transversal mission

• Contribute to transversal projects or initiatives supporting Procurement function efficiency, performance or strategic evolution
• Spread knowledge of the category among the rest of the Procurement community

Qualifications

• University degree level required technical or economic (specialization in procurement preferably)
• Purchasing/supply chain experience
• Excellent relationship and communication abilities
• Comfortable with Excel and PowerPoint
• Fluent in English, French and/or Spanish are a plus
• Work with and meet critical deadlines with good planning and organization
• Procurement operations & negotiation
• Team player, cross‑cultural spirit
• Excellence in analysis

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