Packaging Buyer

About the Role:

Main Accountabilities and Duties

As a Packaging buyer you will report into Procurement Category Lead and will be responsible for identifying and procuring packaging for retail and food service products. The Buyer will focus on category optimisation, process improvement and delivering against individual and departmental goals.

Main Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain ongoing relationships with preferred suppliers.
• Negotiating prices, agree terms and conditions and where required set up contracts and supply agreements.
• Perform spend, contract and market analysis for packaging category for communication to the wider business.
• Work closely with all sites with management of lead times and minimum order quantities to ensure continuity of supply to site at minimal wastage.
• Source new packaging and suppliers where required ensuring compliance with legislation and standards, including but not limited to Retailer, ethical and environmental.
• Work closely with NPD and technical to ensure supplier approval and product integrity.
• Must have a good understanding of raw material markets through the supply chain of the packaging procured and how they will impact the business.
• Results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against targets and project deadlines.

Skills

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience
• Ideally working towards CIPS qualification
• Good analytical skills
• Ability to recognise future and market trends
• Knowledge of raw material/commodity markets (although not essential)
• Contract management and supplier experience
• Good commercial awareness
• Communication skills
• Ability to interface with cross functional team and levels in the business
• Confidence and presentation skills
• Ability to make decisions under pressure
• Negotiation skills
• Tendering skills
• Risk management experience desired

A little about us:

Avara Foods is one of the UK’s largest food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the nation’s most popular supermarkets and restaurants. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which include feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employs 7000 talented people.

What’s in it for you?

As a Packaging Buyer, you will enjoy a supportive and progressive working environment, where your contribution will enable our purpose to be a company you want to work with and for happen.

People make the difference in our business, so we’ll ensure you’re supported, developed and stretched to achieve great results. To ensure you have the opportunity we’ll make sure you have the tools and flexibility to personally grow.

You can also look forward to benefits that amongst other things include the following:

• 31 days holiday
• Private Healthcare
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Group life assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Lifestyle benefits and discounts