Nomad Foods Europe / Birds Eye
Location
Feltham, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Nomad Foods (NF) is the largest frozen food company in Europe and proud owners of a portfolio of leading brands including Birds Eye, Findus, Iglo, Aunt Bessie’s and Goodfella’s. We manufacture, sell and distribute a range of branded frozen food products across 17 European countries with the UK, Italy, Germany, Sweden and France representing our five largest markets. With over €3 billion in annual revenues, NF offer products across multiple categories including frozen fish, vegetables, ready meals, poultry, pizza and potatoes. As the #1 player, Nomad Foods has a 14% share within Western Europe’s €25 billion savoury frozen food market and are more than two times the size of our nearest competitor.
Our central Procurement Team are responsible for all direct and indirect sourcing across Nomad Foods. The team strive to work with the very best suppliers in a way that’s responsible and an example of integrity, while ensuring the very best quality and service from our suppliers to ensure Nomad Foods can be best in class. The team work cross functionally with our local Supply Units, R&D, Food Technical, Finance and Marketing Units to ensure an integrated approach across Nomad Foods that can deliver our ambition for growth.
The Buyer’s main responsibility is to source from both European and Global markets for both current products and New Product Development (NPD) for their category to ensure constant supply to our 14 manufacturing sites. Working in close collaboration with internal stakeholders across all departments and supplies, our Buyers will deliver excellent customer service to their markets and promote and support the Nomad Foods Procurement strategic plan.
The role of Buyer for Functional Ingredients will have direct responsibility for a portfolio spend of ~€15m per annum across Starches, Processing Aids and other functional Ingredients.
- Managing a wide range of suppliers & products across your portfolio of Ingredients, ensuring that you are sourcing in line with Nomad Foods procurement vision.
- Procuring Ingredients from sustainable & approved suppliers that provide Nomad Foods with a competitive advantage and ensuring that our sourcing decisions are informed and provide Nomad Foods and its consumers with the best products to earn a lifetime of loyalty.
- Work closely with local Supply Units (Factories) and their planning teams to forecast demand and ensure enough inventory levels are available to meet production requirements
- Interpreting reports to assess supply requirements for your portfolios
- Implement and run E-Sourcing tenders
- Work with our Procurement Support Team to ensure contracts are set-up and processed
- Support the implementation of NPD and Existing Product Development (EPD)
- Act as an interface between suppliers and relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities
- Monitor and advise accordingly on issues with supply which present a risk or opportunity
- Build and maintain trusted internal and external stakeholder relationships, ensuring a professional and consistent approach is taken
- Manage the category budget, working with Senior Buyer to forecast quarterly, to identify Total Price Variance (TPV) versus budget
- Value Creation: use market and product expertise to generate Value engineering and Productivity Plans (part of the NF’s Fuel for Growth Programme (F4G)
Essential:
- Degree or equivalent
- Internship or grad scheme completed at an FMCG/Retailer or similar
- 2-3 years’ experience in a procurement function
- Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of market fundamentals and supply base
- Demonstrates an awareness of value chains & cost drivers
- Demonstrates an awareness of NPD sourcing / Value engineering cost-out initiatives
Desirable:
- Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) or similar qualification or studying towards CIPS qualification would be beneficial
- GAP Partnership training or similar
- Multi-Lingual (E.G. German, French, Spanish or Italian)
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