Senior Procurement Specialist

Devro; Gaston (SC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Devro, a global leader in collagen products, seeks a Procurement Specialist to support day‑to‑day procurement and supply chain operations in a food manufacturing environment.

You will focus on raw material planning, inbound logistics, supplier performance, and capital engineering project support, collaborating across Production, Engineering, Planning, QA and Finance to ensure continuity, cost control and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or 3–5 years in Supply Chain/Procurement.
• End-to-end procurement experience.
• Experience with supplier engagement for goods and services.
• Direct and indirect procurement including supplier negotiation.
• Able to meet tight deadlines with internal and external suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Lead Capital Expenditure projects.
• Lead and mentor junior team members.
• Collaborate with global Devro procurement teams on category management.
• Foster continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration.
• Maintain strong internal and external business relationships.
• Support RFP, RFQ, and tenders for CAPEX projects.

Skills

Numeracy skills

Planning skills

Time management

Communication skills

Influencing skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Supply Chain/Procurement experience

Tools

ERP

Microsoft Office

Job description

We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry. We supply high quality edible films and coatings to over 1,000 customers in more than 100 countries, delivering our purpose of Creating the Added Layer of Value’. Used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausage and meat products, our aspirations reach beyond our current products and services, and appeal to our natural curiosity to improve what we do.

As a global organisation, we currently employ around 2,000 people spanning the Americas, UK/EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. We offer careers in research and development, science and food technology, manufacturing and supply chain operations, engineering, sales, and a range of other business support functions. We are always seeking talented people to join the amazing colleagues we have, to keep growing our business.

Our mission is to sustainably utilize technology and biomaterial science-based solutions, to delight our customers. We are a business committed to the pursuit of better. The constant pursuit of what’s next, what’s needed, what’s possible.

About the Role:

The Procurement Specialist supports day‑to‑day procurement and supply chain operations within a food manufacturing environment. The role will focus on raw material planning and procurement, inbound logistics coordination (including international freight), supplier performance, procurement support for capital engineering projects and global category management. The role works closely with Production, Engineering, Planning, QA and Finance teams to ensure business continuity, cost management, and operational, efficiency

Responsibilities:

• Take lead in Capital Expenditure projects
• Lead and mentor junior team members
• Work with other Devro procurement teams globally to implement and execute, procurement category management plan.
• Proactively foster the spirit of continuous improvement and teamwork and continue to develop closer working relationships with management and staff in other key functions, particularly operations, customer logistics and quality functions
• Actively form and maintain strong business relationships both internal and external.
• Represent procurement in a variety of ad-hoc projects.
• Assist with tasks relating to RFP, RFQ, and tenders for capital engineering projects.

About You:

Experience

• Bachelor's Degree; or 3- 5 years relevant experience in Supply Chain/Procurement
• End to end procurement experience
• Leading on supplier engagement for goods and services
• Direct and indirect procurement including supplier negotiation
• Comfortable working to tight and competing deadlines and demonstrate confidence in dealing with all internal and external suppliers.

Skills

• Strong numeracy, planning skills and time management skills.
• Confident self-starter with excellent communication, and influencing skills

Knowledge

• Working towards or membership of CIPS.
• Commercially Aware with analytical and numerical skills
• Computer literate with ERP and Microsoft office knowledge

Closing Date:

4th September 2026

*Please note, closing dates are subject to change and, at time of high volume of applications, this may be brought forward.

Equality and diversity at Devro:

We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive working environment in which all employees are respected and supported regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or social background. We expressly welcome applications from people with a wide range