Buyer – Goods Not For Resale (Gnfr)

Vacancy Information

Due to an internal promotion, a fantastic opportunity has now arisen for a Buyer (Goods Not For Resale) to join our Procurement team at our Head Office in Newcastle upon Tyne. Reporting to a Purchasing Manager for Capital Equipment, the successful candidate will support our 13 manufacturing and logistics sites with purchasing expertise for consumables, MRO, and other service contracts.

The GNFR Procurement team are responsible for the sourcing of £180 million of goods and services for our, circa, 2400 shops, 13 Manufacturing & Logistics sites and Head Office. The responsibility of the team stretches from Capital to Utilities, Shopfitting, Waste, Uniforms, IT hardware and software, Marketing spend and many more categories in-between.

This is a great opportunity for someone to develop a Purchasing career in fast moving, successful company and be part of a great team. The successful candidate will need to be an expert negotiator, with strong interpersonal, communication and supplier management skills.

It is expected that the successful candidate will have purchasing experience in a multi-site business, ideally in the food manufacturing industry, however we would be interested to speak to people with similar experience in other industry sectors

We can offer you:

• 25 days (5 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays), plus 1 additional floating day

• Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 10% of your salary

• Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our employees who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year

• Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants

• Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme

• You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages

• Defined contribution management pension scheme

• Death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary

• Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products

• Share save schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits

• Career progression and learning and development

• Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with financial, relationship, work-related and wellbeing issues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Including a mobile app providing a range of wellness content on physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing

• Perks and savings, such as digital gift card discounts, online cashback, in-store and online coupons and lifestyle offers

• Cycle to Work scheme

• A company who cares about our communities; the environment and being a better business! Click here to read about The Greggs Pledge

• Colleague Networks – internal groups where colleagues and their allies can share their own experiences, offer feedback on the way we do things at Greggs, and provide support to one another

What you'll do

The successful candidate will need to effectively communicate with both suppliers and internal stakeholders, ensuring that the appropriate quality and quantity of goods and services are available, when and where required, and to the agreed functional specification.

· Undertake a mix of day to day and strategic procurement activities from contract management and negotiation, to tender management and strategic sourcing across multiple supply chain functions - logistics, engineering, manufacturing and site services

· Continually generate new opportunities to create value within supply chain through negotiation

· To extract and analyse SAP and BI data to identify opportunities to drive value or consolidate supplier spends.

· Support project engineers and purchasing managers with the sourcing and implementation of new key spares.

· To review processes and standards to maintain customer focus and identify and implement best practice including CSR & environmental factors

· To maintain good relationships with both internal and external customers and suppliers

· Regularly review supplier base, sourcing new suppliers to support business objectives and create value

· To support the Purchasing Managers on larger projects when require

About you

You will fit right into this role if you:

· Persuasive and able to communicate and influence at all levels.

· Experience of negotiating better pricing, tender processes or driving value from supplier interactions.

· Experience of dealing with multiple tasks simultaneously.

· Experience of reporting from SAP, running analysis using excel and driving insight from data.

· Ability to demonstrate a capability to liaise with Internal and External contacts and to effectively ensure Stakeholder engagement.

· Highly numerate and literate with strong analytical skills.

· Self-starter who is able to plan and organise their time effectively

· Track record of delivering value and continuous improvement

· Team orientated with a passion for achieving both personal and collaborative objectives

· Good knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 suite, and ideally SAP and Ariba

· A can-do attitude and flexibility to working hours is required

About Greggs

Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun! What makes Greggs so special is our culture – the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We're hard-working, but above all else we're family; and it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us! We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views.