Strategic Procurement Leader – Food & Packaging

Little Moons; Little London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medicash, Private Health Scheme & Life

Enhanced Baby Leave

Mental health support

Discretionary annual bonus

Paid sick leave

25 days holiday

Birthday off

Cycle to work

Job summary

Little Moons is seeking a Procurement Manager to shape sourcing strategy, build a resilient supplier base, and drive value across the business. You will lead a team, manage key supplier relationships, and advance category strategies while embedding sustainability and governance across procurement activities.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to align sourcing with growth, ensure continuity, and deliver cost savings.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in procurement management within food manufacturing.
• Experience leading procurement teams and developing people.
• Proven track record of delivering strategic sourcing programmes and significant commercial value.
• Strong supplier relationship management and negotiation expertise.
• Experience building category strategies and procurement roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of supply chain risk management.
• Excellent stakeholder influencing skills, including senior leadership engagement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the Procurement Strategy in line with business objectives.
• Translate company growth plans into effective sourcing and supplier strategies.
• Support the Head of SC & P to build and maintain a multi-year procurement roadmap.
• Drive adherence to procurement governance, policies and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement across procurement processes, systems and ways of working.
• Act as the procurement lead for key business initiatives and transformational projects.
• Lead, coach and develop the procurement team to create a high-performing function.
• Establish clear objectives, development plans and succession planning.
• Promote a culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Ensure procurement capability evolves in line with business growth requirements.
• Act as a mentor and escalation point for complex commercial and supplier issues.
• Develop partnerships with key suppliers and manufacturing partners.
• Establish supplier segmentation and relationship management frameworks.
• Identify opportunities for joint innovation, cost optimisation and sustainability improvements.
• Drive supplier performance through robust governance and KPI management.
• Deliver procurement savings, cost avoidance and value creation targets.
• With the Head of SC & P own procurement budget performance and savings forecasting.
• Define commercial negotiation strategies for key spend areas.
• Challenge existing cost structures and identify opportunities to improve margin.
• Ensure appropriate contractual protection and commercial governance is in place.
• Own the procurement risk management framework.
• Ensure robust mitigation plans exist across strategic suppliers, ingredients and packaging.
• Monitor market volatility, geopolitical developments and supply chain risks.
• Lead procurement's response to significant supply disruptions.
• Develop long-term resilience strategies to support business continuity.
• Create supplier-enabled innovation pipelines to support future growth.
• Support expansion into new products, channels and markets through effective sourcing strategies.
• Identify and introduce new suppliers, technologies and capabilities.
• Ensure procurement is engaged early in the innovation process to maximise value creation.
• Lead delivery of responsible sourcing and supply chain sustainability objectives.
• Drive supplier engagement and alignment against the Little Moons Positive Sourcing standard
• Support carbon reduction, packaging sustainability and responsible sourcing initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and reporting requirements

Skills

Procurement management

Team leadership

Strategic sourcing

Supplier relations

Category strategies

Supply chain risk

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Little Moons is seeking a Procurement Manager to shape sourcing strategy, build a resilient supplier base, and drive value across the business. You will lead a team, manage key supplier relationships, and advance category strategies while embedding sustainability and governance across procurement activities.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to align sourcing with growth, ensure continuity, and deliver cost savings.