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Procurement Manager – Directs

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We are looking for an ambitious Senior Procurement Manager to play a key role in building the next chapter of our procurement function.

This is more than a category management role. It’s an opportunity for a high-potential procurement professional to become a trusted senior leader within a business that is investing in its procurement capability, implementing change, and creating exciting opportunities for career development. Based within the Direct Procurement team, you’ll work closely with the Head of Procurement and will be positioned as a key strategic partner across the organisation.

The Opportunity

As Senior Procurement Manager, you’ll lead strategic sourcing and supplier management activities across a range of direct spend categories, including ingredients and packaging. Category ownership will be shaped around your experience and strengths, offering genuine flexibility for the right individual.

You’ll be responsible for developing procurement strategies, leading major tender activity, building supplier partnerships and delivering commercial value across a complex, multi-site environment. The role also offers exposure to global procurement initiatives and international stakeholder engagement.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone ready to step up into a broader leadership role, with the potential to progress yourself further ocurement as the function evolves.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Developing and implementing category strategies across direct spend areas.
  • Leading major sourcing projects, tenders and supplier negotiations.
  • Driving cost savings, value creation and supplier performance improvements.
  • Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders across Operations, Commercial, Technical and Finance functions.
  • Managing strategic supplier relationships and mitigating supply chain risk.
  • Supporting procurement transformation and category development initiatives.
  • Monitoring market trends, legislation and sustainability requirements impacting procurement decisions.
  • Coaching and influencing colleagues across the procurement function.
  • Contributing to a growing global procurement agenda.

What We’re Looking For

We’re less interested in finding a specialist in one particular category and more interested in finding the right person.

You’ll likely bring:

  • Significant procurement experience within a direct procurement environment.
  • Experience managing complex spend categories across multiple sites.
  • Strong strategic sourcing, tendering and negotiation skills.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capability.
  • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
  • The resilience to thrive within a fast-moving and evolving business.
  • The confidence to operate autonomously whilst collaborating across teams.
  • A desire to develop, lead and step into greater levels of responsibility.

Experience within FMCG, food manufacturing or fresh food would be advantageous, although we are open to candidates from other sectors who can demonstrate strong procurement expertise and the right leadership qualities.

The Type of Person Who Will Succeed

This role will suit someone who:

  • Enjoys building and improving processes rather than simply following them.
  • Thrives in environments where there is plenty of opportunity to make an impact.
  • Is comfortable working through ambiguity and change.
  • Can balance strategic thinking with practical delivery.
  • Builds credibility through influence and relationships rather than hierarchy.
  • Is hungry for progression and excited by future leadership opportunities.

Working Pattern & Travel

This is a genuinely flexible role, but not one that fits into a rigid office schedule.

You’ll spend your time where you can add the most value, whether that’s at the office, visiting suppliers, supporting operational sites or collaborating with stakeholders.

  • Seniority Level

    Mid-Senior level

  • Industry

    • Food and Beverage Services
    • Food and Beverage Manufacturing

  • Employment Type

    Full-time

  • Job Functions

    • General Business

  • Skills

    • Purchasing
    • Group Buying
    • Data

Graduate Account Executive

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  • Manage day to day tasks and administration with regards to promotional and core business, to ensure that the systems and process are maintained:
    • Assisting the Commercial Managers in the promotional planning process within specified margin and budget parameters.
    • Ensure pricing is correct on SAP and Customer system
    • New Line Forms
    • Forecasting/Supply chain reporting
    • Setting up SAP codes
    • Running reports daily and weekly
  • Assisting the NPD team with paperwork and samples
  • Update documents and pricing in line with customer requirements
  • Assist with planning and delivery of customer and site visits and events (will include travel)
  • Generate presentations when necessary for customer or site meetings
  • Apply problem solving techniques to resolve problems and recommend improvements
  • Ensure that all processes are carried out correctly to standard, first time
  • To highlight any potential areas that can reduce cost
  • Support the Grocery team to develop, maintain and safeguard the current business with the customer
  • Work with the category and NPD team on plans for future growth
  • Provide an excellent customer service by building strong relationships at all levels of the business.
  • Provide cover for the commercial team when necessary
  • Continually developing own skills through attending company training
  • Uphold a consistency of approach of working procedures in line with all companies’ policies procedures and best practice
  • To carry out other duties that may reasonably be requested of you to ensure the efficient running of the business

Procurement Manager – Directs

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We are looking for an ambitious Senior Procurement Manager to play a key role in building the next chapter of our procurement function.

This is more than a category management role. It’s an opportunity for a high-potential procurement professional to become a trusted senior leader within a business that is investing in its procurement capability, implementing change, and creating exciting opportunities for career development. Based within the Direct Procurement team, you’ll work closely with the Head of Procurement and will be positioned as a key strategic partner across the organisation.

The Opportunity

As Senior Procurement Manager, you’ll lead strategic sourcing and supplier management activities across a range of direct spend categories, including ingredients and packaging. Category ownership will be shaped around your experience and strengths, offering genuine flexibility for the right individual.

You’ll be responsible for developing procurement strategies, leading major tender activity, building supplier partnerships and delivering commercial value across a complex, multi-site environment. The role also offers exposure to global procurement initiatives and international stakeholder engagement.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone ready to step up into a broader leadership role, with the potential to progress yourself further ocurement as the function evolves.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Developing and implementing category strategies across direct spend areas.
  • Leading major sourcing projects, tenders and supplier negotiations.
  • Driving cost savings, value creation and supplier performance improvements.
  • Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders across Operations, Commercial, Technical and Finance functions.
  • Managing strategic supplier relationships and mitigating supply chain risk.
  • Supporting procurement transformation and category development initiatives.
  • Monitoring market trends, legislation and sustainability requirements impacting procurement decisions.
  • Coaching and influencing colleagues across the procurement function.
  • Contributing to a growing global procurement agenda.

What We’re Looking For

We’re less interested in finding a specialist in one particular category and more interested in finding the right person.

You’ll likely bring:

  • Significant procurement experience within a direct procurement environment.
  • Experience managing complex spend categories across multiple sites.
  • Strong strategic sourcing, tendering and negotiation skills.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capability.
  • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
  • The resilience to thrive within a fast-moving and evolving business.
  • The confidence to operate autonomously whilst collaborating across teams.
  • A desire to develop, lead and step into greater levels of responsibility.

Experience within FMCG, food manufacturing or fresh food would be advantageous, although we are open to candidates from other sectors who can demonstrate strong procurement expertise and the right leadership qualities.

The Type of Person Who Will Succeed

This role will suit someone who:

  • Enjoys building and improving processes rather than simply following them.
  • Thrives in environments where there is plenty of opportunity to make an impact.
  • Is comfortable working through ambiguity and change.
  • Can balance strategic thinking with practical delivery.
  • Builds credibility through influence and relationships rather than hierarchy.
  • Is hungry for progression and excited by future leadership opportunities.

Working Pattern & Travel

This is a genuinely flexible role, but not one that fits into a rigid office schedule.

You’ll spend your time where you can add the most value, whether that’s at the office, visiting suppliers, supporting operational sites or collaborating with stakeholders.

  • Seniority Level

    Mid-Senior level

  • Industry

    • Food and Beverage Services
    • Food and Beverage Manufacturing

  • Employment Type

    Full-time

  • Job Functions

    • General Business

  • Skills

    • Purchasing
    • Group Buying
    • Data

Territory Sales Manager

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Duties Will Include:

  • General support to existing customers; conducting range reviews and refreshes to grow their business with the brand. This will involve sales analysis and presentations through to hands on instore merchandising including making wooden frames, assembling boxes and displaying the products ready for retail. This will require a willingness to ask pertinent questions with influencing skills being key to success.
  • Identify possible new customers through your initiative referrals, developing your own leads, internet, databases etc. Working with sales and marketing colleagues to drive support.
  • Convert prospects into customers – liaising with customer to finalise product mix and installation logistics.
  • To install new customer sites – making wooden frames, assembling boxes and merchandising of freezers to be “retail ready”. This will necessitate an aptitude for practical hands on working and a willingness to get on with what needs to be done to ensure everything is retail ready for the customer.
  • To generate and maintain appropriate sales reporting functions.
  • To attend exhibitions to represent the company
  • Reporting to Head of Sales
  • Training by Head of Sales
  • To gather market and product information through above activities for both current target markets and possible new markets
  • Will involve staying away overnight when required in normal course of business

Key Attributes:

  • Be able to liaise with a broad spectrum of business people and personalities, good interpersonal and rapport building skills
  • Be independent and self-motivated – responsible for own diary management and customer visit planning
  • Be a team player – being a small company this role is very varied
  • Be proactive and flexible with the ability to independently prioritise
  • B2B sales experience and selling a branded offer.
  • Food experience a must, frozen food experience useful
  • Food retail experience useful
  • An understanding of the farm shop sector and convenience sector an advantage but not essential

Dispatch & Quality team leader

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Are you passionate about delivering exceptional customer service while maintaining the highest food safety and quality standards?

We are recruiting for a Dispatch & Quality Team Leader to join a successful chilled food manufacturer in South Yorkshire. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with food manufacturing experience who thrives on ensuring products leave site accurately, compliantly and meet customer expectations every time.

This role combines team leadership, dispatch coordination and quality assurance, making it ideal for someone who enjoys working across operational and technical functions.

The Role

As Dispatch & Quality Team Leader, you will take ownership of the dispatch operation whilst ensuring customer requirements, food safety standards and quality expectations are consistently achieved.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading and developing a team within the dispatch function.
  • Ensuring all products are checked, loaded and dispatched accurately to customer specifications.
  • Maintaining product quality standards throughout storage and dispatch.
  • Carrying out quality checks and ensuring compliance with food safety and customer requirements.
  • Investigating customer complaints, quality concerns and dispatch discrepancies.
  • Working closely with Production, Technical and Planning teams to ensure products meet specification before dispatch.
  • Ensuring traceability, stock accuracy and documentation are completed correctly.
  • Supporting audits and helping maintain BRC, HACCP and site quality standards.
  • Driving a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and customer focus.

About You

We’re looking for an engaging leader with:

  • Previous Team Leader or Supervisory experience within food manufacturing.
  • A strong understanding of food safety, quality systems and customer requirements.
  • Experience working within a chilled food, fresh produce or FMCG environment.
  • Knowledge of HACCP, traceability and quality standards.
  • Strong attention to detail and a passion for getting things right first time.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with Technical, Production and Supply Chain teams.
  • A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to join a business that genuinely values quality, customer service and operational excellence. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring products reach customers in perfect condition whilst leading a team and driving standards across the dispatch operation.

If you’re a people-focused leader with experience in food manufacturing and a keen eye for quality, we’d love to hear from you.

Regional Account Manager – Leicester / Northampton

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In line with their current growth, we are looking for a Sales and Business Development Manager to join the sales team to grow the business in both existing and new customers. In this role you will be an important part of a successful small team ensuring the customer base is developed through supporting existing outlets on a regular basis to optimise sales and grow their business, following up leads, opening new outlets and by sourcing new locations, in addition to keeping an open mind to alternative target market opportunities.

Duties Will Include:

· General support to existing customers; conducting range reviews and refreshes to grow their business with the brand. This will involve sales analysis and presentations through to hands on instore merchandising including making wooden frames, assembling boxes and displaying the products ready for retail. This will require a willingness to ask pertinent questions with influencing skills being key to success.

· Identify possible new customers through your initiative referrals, developing your own leads, internet, databases etc. Working with sales and marketing colleagues to drive support.

· Convert prospects into customers – liaising with customer to finalise product mix and installation logistics.

· To install new customer sites – making wooden frames, assembling boxes and merchandising of freezers to be “retail ready”. This will necessitate an aptitude for practical hands on working and a willingness to get on with what needs to be done to ensure everything is retail ready for the customer.

· To generate and maintain appropriate sales reporting functions.

· To attend exhibitions to represent the company

· Reporting to Head of Sales

· Training by Head of Sales

· To gather market and product information through above activities for both current target markets and possible new markets

· Will involve staying away overnight when required in normal course of business

Key Attributes:

· Be able to liaise with a broad spectrum of business people and personalities, good interpersonal and rapport building skills

· Be independent and self-motivated – responsible for own diary management and customer visit planning

· Be a team player – being a small company this role is very varied

· Be proactive and flexible with the ability to independently prioritise

· B2B sales experience and selling a branded offer.

· Food experience a must, frozen food experience useful

· Food retail experience useful

· An understanding of the farm shop sector and convenience sector an advantage but n