Buyer - Fresh Produce
Nando's Chickenland Limited, Putney, Greater London
Buyer - Fresh Produce
Salary Not Specified
Nando's Chickenland Limited, Putney, Greater London
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
, 25 Dec | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: b2d2ab8507f64efa88b020216a4553fa
Full Job Description
- To lead a buying category of products ensuring robust supply, competitive terms, innovation, supplier capacity to meet business growth and sustainable sourcing.
- To develop valued supplier relationships with strategic suppliers and ensure supplier relationship management and performance management is applied across all suppliers. A day in the life...
- To work with the Senior Buyer to execute the buying strategy for fresh foodcategory, to ensure robust and consistent supply, competitive terms with our suppliers, a supplier base plan for innovation and capacity for growth.
- To deliver the buying strategy be proactive in engaging internal stakeholders.
- To work closely with the Demand Planning Manager and Supply Chain Manager to ensure full availability of product from our suppliers and take ownership for resolving shortfalls and service issues as they arise. This can involve being available out of normal working hours to resolve such issues.
- To work closely with the customer, food and technical teams to identify new and existing product development opportunities within assigned buying categories
- To lead the development of suppliers and sourcing of products to meet the NPD/ EPD process requirements and support the launch process by ensuring our suppliers and products are ready to launch in full and on time.
- To manage all tendering activity and contract negotiations, renewals, drafting for submission and approval for assigned buying categories.
- To develop valued supplier relationships with and ensure supplier relationship management and performance management is applied including leading scorecard reviews.
- To support the buying team to establish a strong sustainability and animal welfare agenda across the assigned suppliers.
- To support Nando's Southern African sourcing plan
A demonstrable and thorough understanding of buying food for a multisite organisation with fast moving products. - 5+ years' experience in a buying role within a large, multi-site organisation.
- Proven track record of delivering excellent results in a buying role.
- Confident and articulate with strong influencing skills and ability to engage and build positive relationships with stakeholders.
- Inspiring Others, Customer Focus, Personal Integrity, Drive, Team Working, Developing Self / Others, Analysing & Decision Making, Managing Performance, Managing Change, Gaining Commitment, Commercial Acumen.
- Demonstrate and encourage behaviours that foster the Nando's values of Pride, Passion, Courage, Integrity & Family.
Ask people where Nando's comes from and you'll get a different answer every time. Portugal? Mexico? The UK? Our story actually starts in Rosettenville, a Portuguese neighbourhood in Johannesburg, South Africa. With stops in Mozambique and the UK along the way. It was 1987 and Robbie Brozin and Fernando Duarte opened their first chicken restaurant. Then another. And then another. Fast forward five years and Nando's landed in the UK. Now, with over 480 restaurants (and counting), our PERi-PERi is a bestselling hot sauce and Nando's has become as big a part of culture as drinking tea. We've got a growing family of 20,000 Nandocas (what we call our employees), fuelled by our values: Pride, Passion, Integrity, Courage and Family. We care as much about them as we do our legendary, flame-grilled PERi-PERi - because it's the people that make the chicken. Inspired by our Southern African heritage, we know and value the richness diversity brings. So we're committed to creating an inclusive and respectful culture for all. We've even been re - 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Free Nando's when you're working (and 40% discount when you're not)
- Annual team trips, AKA a free holiday
- Reward membership scheme and access to great discounts
- Four-week sabbatical every five years you've been with us
- Private healthcare This hybrid role will be required to be in the Putney office 3 times a week