Buyer - Packaging 3-month FTC

3 days a week - Woking

Competitive salary, up to 25% bonus and benefits

We have an excellent opportunity available for you to grow your career and make a difference at Nomad Foods! Joining us as an Packaging Buyer, you’ll be supporting the procurement strategy for the Ingredients team to maximise cost savings whilst maintaining standards.

About the role…

The role supports the execution of the procurement strategy for Ingredients by ensuring business requirements are met through procuring goods and services in a sustainable and ethical way, whilst optimising costs, maintaining quality standards and mitigating supply chain risks.

Delivers Commercial Value

• Maximises end to end value creation by optimising the supplier base, leveraging our scale, harmonising specifications for goods/services and standardising payment and other contractual terms with suppliers
• Continuously strives to identify ways to unlock value, working collaboratively with suppliers to identify what both parties can do to sustainably reduce costs
• Uses market intelligence to forecast both price and market trends, leveraging this knowledge in negotiations with suppliers to deliver value
• Owns the delivery of annual targets for productivity improvements, materials productivity and reductions in COGs for the segment

Sources goods & services in a sustainable and ethical way

• Minimises the environmental impact of our supply chain by working with the Sustainability Team to define the sustainable and ethical sourcing action plan for the category and taking ownership of its delivery
• Proactively builds supply chain resilience, taking proactive steps to de-risk our supply chain through the identification and resolution of risks

Owns Supplier Performance*

• Leads the process to identify and select appropriate and compliant suppliers for their category
• Owns the management of supplier relationships, tailoring the approach by category, subsegment or product as required
• Measures and tracks supplier performance, proactively resolving any issues - quality, service or cost - whilst ensuring supplier compliance with internal policies and external regulations and laws

* Where a supplier provides goods/services across multiple segments, then the Buyer with the highest spend will take the lead on managing the relationship and/or managing the rationalisation/insourcing discussions

Delivers project outcomes on time and in full

• Enables successful project outcomes by proactively engaging with other teams, bringing insights from market intelligence and supplier performance to inform decisions, and taking ownership for delivery of procurement actions

About you…

We need a proactive self-starter who can build strong, meaningful relationships with stakeholders across multiple functions and multiple geographies. A persuasive manner with the ability to both challenge and influence internal stakeholders and suppliers alike are crucial. The role requires the ability to work across a large number of SKUs in a fast-paced, but structured, environment, together with a strong bias for action to deliver against both deadlines and financial targets.

The curiosity and appetite to challenge the status-quo are essential to succeed.

• Buying or Procurement experience is essential.
• Experience within FMCG or Retail buying preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and proactive in communication.
• CIPS qualification beneficial.
• Proven record of delivering cost savings and improve commercial value.

What we can offer you…

• An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
• A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference.
• The potential to progress your career across different areas of the Nomad Foods Group

We’re on an exceptional adventure and offer a truly purpose led career. We aim to empower each employee and promote their personal growth all the while ensuring business needs are met now and into the future.

Who are we…

Headquartered in the UK, with revenues of €2.9 billion and operations in 22 key markets, Nomad Foods is Europe's leading frozen food company. We are a young company, founded only eight years ago, and built around a number of iconic brands (including Birds Eye, Findus and iglo and more recently Ledo and Frikom) that invented the frozen category 100 years ago and continue to set the bar for great taste, nutrition, convenience and affordability. Across everything we do, we are guided by our Purpose - Serving the World with Better Food - and how we can make a positive impact on our Performance, People and the Planet.

At Nomad Foods we're proud to represent the world we serve by hiring diverse talent. Our inclusive culture is all about what we can achieve together.