Procurement Manager, Corporate Services
St Albans/ Hybrid Working
We have a new vacancy for a Procurement Manager to work within our Corporate Services division in which you will drive change and make a real difference to leave your own legacy. The ideal candidate will have excellent advanced category management skills enabling consistent delivery of business performance across IT, Finance, Legal, Consultancy & Professional Services.
You will be instrumental in developing comprehensive category strategies and driving business objectives forward with warmth. You will be responsible for implementing cost savings across relevant categories and negotiating contracts to meet business requirements.
To excel in this role, you'll need to be a skilled negotiator and a strong communicator. This role requires an individual who is highly analytical and capable of prioritising multiple projects at once. For this role, we're really keen to bring in someone who is resilient and driven by growth. Also effective and highly adaptable communicator with strong interpersonal and relationship building skills. Furthermore capable of maintaining a collaborative and professional approach in all stakeholder and supplier relationships.
What's important to you is to maintain transparency and compliance within your procurement policies and procedures. This is about driving forward business opportunities with warmth and leading a team of central functions.
The Key Requirements...
1. Proven strategic procurement background
2. Broad procurement experience including IT
3. Sourcing and category planning/management
4. Experience of outstanding stakeholder management and business partnering
5. In-depth, technical and category management knowledge
6. MCIPS (Preferred)
Joining Premier Foods, you’ll be part of a business accelerating growth and part of our plans to enrich life through food. Your future will be full of opportunities to contribute to our mission and drive our growth journey forward sustainably.
At Premier Foods, we believe in driving forward growth and are committed to ensuring we have the right team in place for the next phase of growth. This is a chance for you to be part of a business known for its commitment to growth and enriching lives through food.
This is an opportunity for you to contribute to our goal of driving growth and sustainability. People stay with our business because we are proud of our commitment to growth and are known for being an employer of choice.
The Benefits and Perks...
7. Company Car Allowance
8. Company Pension
9. Holiday Purchase Scheme
10. Private Medical Insurance
11. Hybrid working
12. The Hamper - our employee discount platform
13. Subsidised canteen on site
14. Bonus