Senior Purchasing Manager (Non-Foods) - Maternity Cover

PizzaExpress (Restaurants) Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

PizzaExpress is seeking a Senior Purchasing Manager to cover maternity leave for approximately 9-12 months. This role involves overseeing non-food products, ensuring quality procurement practices, and contributing to sustainability goals. The position is based in Central London with a hybrid work model, offering a competitive salary plus benefits, including a car allowance and bonus incentives.

Benefits

Car allowance (£5.7K)

Bupa healthcare (dental and medical)

Monthly pay day drinks

Regular team socials

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a similar role, ideally within hospitality or foodservice.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Ability to manage high-volume data, excellent procurement practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop non-food categories and strategic plans.
• Support sustainability and net zero targets.
• Organise tenders and manage supplier relations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Numerical skills

Commercial acumen

Project management

Relationship management

Negotiation skills

Stakeholder management

Sustainability practices

Procurement practices

Influencing skills

Education

CIPS or working towards

Job description

Senior Purchasing Manager (Non-Foods) - Maternity Cover

Salary: Competitive plus cash car allowance and bonus

Working Pattern: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Sat 26 Jul 2025 - 12:00 AM

Senior Purchasing Manager (Non-Food) - Maternity Cover

Central London based, hybrid working available (3 days per week in the office). This is a maternity contract cover for around 9-12 months.

We’re hiring a senior purchasing manager to oversee our non-food products and services. You’ll be responsible for delivering the best quality and price items, such as packaging, equipment and small wears for our UK&I estate, including sustainability and net zero impact. You’ll also have the opportunity support other functions to deliver campaigns and promotions for key trading times of the year and events. This highly collaborative role will work closely with our marketing, brand, design and restaurant operational teams, along with wider supply chain peers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the non-food categories and its strategic plans
• Support delivery of our sustainability and net zero targets
• Delivery of improved commercials by adopting strong procurement practices, and propose innovative solutions through effective suppliers, products, and contract management.
• Organise tenders/e-auctions
• Spend in control c. £10m per annum
• Stakeholder management, both internal and external, inc. supplier and distributor management and contract negotiation
• Oversee the implementation of the category plan to ensure that the procurement activities deliver the expected business value
• Researching and identifying products and added value suppliers following strategic sourcing practices
• Monitoring and forecasting stock levels of products within the categories, liaising with internal distribution function and distributors to maximise availability.
• Managing various service contracts to deliver our KPIs

Your Skills and Experience:

• Extensive experience in a similar role, ideally within hospitality, foodservice or a buying organisation in a purchasing/supply chain function
• Strong analytical, numerical skills and commercial acumen
• Ability to implement excellent procurement practices, manage large volume of data and information
• Planning and project management skills
• Excellent relation management and influencing skills
• Speaking a second language would be a great skill to have for this role
• CIPS or working toward is an advantage
• National/international travel to suppliers and trade show required
• Up to 20% bonus scheme
• Car allowance (£5.7K)
• Bupa healthcare (dental and medical)
• Hybrid working available (3 days per week in the office)
• Monthly pay day drinks, with pizza & Peroni and Prosecco
• Regular team socials with the opportunity to visit our suppliers
• Benefits portal
• Mental Health First Aiders across the business
• Employee Assistance Programme, providing health, finance, and wellbeing advice

Who we are:

Where those who love pizza can be their true self. We’ve been around since 1965, bringing pizza to the UK and have since grown to a multichannel, international brand. Our people are at the heart of our success and everything we do, we believe you should always be able to express yourself.

Our values and culture are made up of three key parts: use your head, show your heart and create a home. For us, this shows up as:

• Head - were customer centric, commercially driven and obsessed by performance in all we do
• Heart - we show our heart, are honest and vulnerable with our teams and lead everything through our people
• Home - we create a home, where everyone has a place at our marble table and you can truly express yourself everyday

Inclusivity and respect are at the heart of our business and are valued by our teams, customers, and suppliers. PizzaExpress and Milano is a place where everyone is welcome, and everyone belongs. That’s why we assess each application on the aptitude to do the job and nothing else.

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Senior Purchasing Manager (Non-Foods) - Maternity Cover

Salary: Competitive plus cash car allowance and bonus

Working Pattern: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

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