Role title: Raw Material & Supplier Co-ordinator Salary: Competitive Location: Huntingdon About the role: We are now looking for an experienced Raw Material & Supplier Co-ordinator to communicate raw material requirements to the supply base and be the main contact between the HFUK procurement team and primal suppliers. To manage and review options when demand changes and communicate of supply shorts and surpluses to the Red Meat Procurement Manager. As a Raw Material & Supplier Co-ordinator, some of the responsibilities will be: - Tracking suppliers' deliveries vs agreements - holding suppliers accountable for shorts which lead to operational/service level issues - Collating stock sheets for the Raw material scheduler and wider business if needed - Reviewing options for short life stock in supply base along with the raw material scheduler - Keep NZ schedules up to date, monitoring stocks and issuing POs - Communicating NZ deliveries to site and wider business. - Managing inbound purchases to external coldstores with suppliers - Building frozen stock sheets for external storage - planning in to future forecast and flagging surpluses to the red meat procurement manager - Working with retail forecaster to understand short, medium and long-term forecast changes - Tracking forecast changes and reacting with suppliers in order to maintain service level - Highlighting forecast adjustments to red meat procurement manager to discuss and devise appropriate actions. - Communicating forecasted requirements to suppliers and proactively fulfilling shortages - Keep the Procurement Manager for Red Meat informed of any relevant supplier feedback to forecasts - Collate forecasted shorts summary and reasons to be shared and discussed with red meat procurement manager. - Responding to any queries internally or externally regarding the forecast - Informing materials buyer of nationality splits for label ordering - Assisting Red Meat procurement manager with setting up red meat buys (beef & lamb) - Maintaining supplier agreed prices in the tracker and system for Red Meat - Keeping track of supplier KPI's and communicate the findings to suppliers and working with them to advise and improve on. To succeed as a Raw Material & Supplier Co-ordinator, we ask that you have the following experience/expertise: - Pro-actively engaging the Procurement team with ideas for development - Microsoft Excel knowledge - Ability to monitor inventory levels, manage stock variances, and propose solutions for short-life stock and surplus inventory. - Demonstrated ability to manage supplier relationships, track deliveries against agreements, and address operational or service-level issues effectively. - Skilled in collating, maintaining, and analysing stock sheets and schedules to support procurement and scheduling activities What you get in return: On top of working for a fantastic organisation with a family feel and state of the art facilities you will receive a great package with competitive holiday allowance, paid overtime, life assurance of minimum two times yearly salary, opportunities for development and internal promotion, Cycle to work scheme, Share save scheme, variety of discounts at well-known retailers as well as gyms and free car parking on site along a subsidised canteen. About us: We are a company that takes pride in their people as it is our people who are at the centre of everything that we do, if you want to find out more please follow the link below. Hilton Food Group - Home (hiltonfoodgroupplc.com)