Buyer
Posted 21/01/2025 by Produce People Recruitment Limited
Experienced Fresh Produce Buyer
Ideally exotics experience, supplying into the UK's premier supermarket. International travel will be required.
This £200m T/O business has an enviable reputation as an employer and offers development, progression & training as well as a share option scheme. Previous fresh produce Buying & Procurement experience is a must with the desired category highly advantageous!
You will be a team player, confident & capable with the ability to prioritise multiple tasks quickly and efficiently. This is a key role within the department requiring a solid knowledge of the global fresh produce industry and it's seasonality together with the cultural, economic and environmental factors that can affect the supply chain.
Key elements of the role;
- Source, negotiate and place orders
- Checking stock of product against daily sales
- Responsible for consignment profitability
- Liaise with freight companies & suppliers
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with agents and shippers
- Develop new sources of business whilst encouraging the development of existing suppliers
- Develop a detailed understanding of the regional fresh produce markets around the world
- Assist in the design, development and delivery of presentations to suppliers and/or customers
- Represent the business within the global market
Excellent IT skills, specifically Excel are required, with a second language being highly desirable.
Up to £50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company car
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee stock ownership plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- asap
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- JSG/21/01/25
- Job ID:
- 222936336
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