Procurement Specialist

About us:

We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry. We supply high quality edible films and coatings to over 1,000 customers in more than 100 countries, delivering our purpose of ‘Creating the Added Layer of Value’.

Primarily used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausage and meat products, our aspirations reach way beyond our current products and services, and appeal to our natural curiosity to improve what we do.

As a global organisation, we currently employ around 2,000 people spanning the Americas, UK/EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. We offer careers in research and development, science and food technology, manufacturing and supply chain operations, engineering, sales, and a range of other business support functions. We are always seeking talented people to join the amazing colleagues we have, to keep growing our business.

Our mission is to sustainably utilise technology and biomaterial science-based solutions, to delight our customers. We are a business committed to the pursuit of better. The constant pursuit of what’s next, what’s needed, what’s possible now, and in the future. Do you want to be part of our journey?

About the Role:

• Process purchase orders through the JDE process flow, advise and help purchase order raisers if required
• Plan, manage and expedite delivery of raw material purchase orders
• Support all aspects of the Indirect spend, capital expenditure and consumables including supplier selection, planning, and expediting whilst ensuring through strong negotiation skills, that the company secures the most commercially advantageous supply which meets business requirements.
• Work with QA and production to ensure that product quantity is maintained
• Work with other Devro procurement teams globally to implement and execute procurement category management plans.
• Proactively foster the spirit of continuous improvement and teamwork and continue to develop closer working relationships with management and staff in other key functions, particularly operations, customer logistics and quality functions within Devro
• Actively form and maintain strong business relationships both internal and external to Devro
• Maintain records in our manufacturing computer system
• Represent procurement in a variety of ad-hoc projects.

About you:

Our ideal candidate will have demonstrable capability in the end-to-end procurement experience and will be confident leading on supplier engagement for goods and services. You will be comfortable with both direct and indirect procurement including supplier negotiation.

You will be a confident self-starter with excellent communication and influencing skills. You will, ideally, working towards or have membership of CIPS and be computer literate with ERP and Microsoft Office knowledge.

What next?

If this sounds like a role that you would be interested in, then we would love to hear from you. To apply, please e-mail a copy of your CV, along with a cover letter explaining the key attributes that you could bring to the role.

Email address for applications: recruitmentuk@devro.com

Closing Date: 22nd February 2023

• Please note, closing dates are subject to change and, at time of high volume of applications, this may be brought forward.

Other important information:

We believe it takes diversity of thought, culture, background, and perspective to create a truly innovative company. So, if you share our values, purpose and drive for growth and sustainability, then we want to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to be able to pursue an application with us, please let our Recruitment team know.

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