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Procurement Manager - Capital

Job Posted: 5 days ago

Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire

Expire in: 22 days

Job Description

Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
 
Role Purpose:
 
Procurement Manager - Capex. Responsible for the commercial aspects and overall supplier performance for goods and services purchased from suppliers for their categories of spend, and continuously creates additional value for money for Greencore. Pro-actively engage with stakeholders across Greencore to encourage best practice and owns the commercial aspects of projects that involve suppliers
 
Key Accountabilities:

Create additional value for money for goods and services, balancing price, service and quality and meeting the business needs through undertaking negotiations, selection of suppliers and contracting of business
Build great relationships with stakeholders and provide professional procurement expertise and commercial focus. Be able to challenge the way Greencore do things and introduce best procurement practice. Be an ambassador for indirects procurement to change the business behaviours and culture
Take a strategic category view to manage areas of spend, identify savings opportunities, and drive consistency across Greencore. This includes analysing spend bases, consolidating the supply base across Greencore where appropriate, driving consistent ways of working across Greencore, sourcing from fit for purpose suppliers, managing supplier performance, resolving issues, negotiating the optimum price, service and quality parameters, and agreeing contracts and service levels
Project manage the delivery of initiatives to address a business need or to create additional value. This includes aligning multiple stakeholders, identifying the business needs and risks, project planning, running tenders, negotiation, contracting, communication, approval, implementation planning and then subsequent supplier management and issue resolution to ensure the supplier meets the contract
Negotiating and implementing contracts when needed, ensuring each contract is appropriately tailored to the requirements of the business, including creating business appropriate service levels and addressing any specific risks and liabilities 
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Degree calibre with indirect procurement experience
Excellent commercial insight combined with negotiation skills
Ability to build good relationships with stakeholders with excellent communication and influencing skills
Ability to analyse data, identify and evaluate options and implement recommendations
Able to assess and adapt a contract to mitigate liabilities in line with business risk and create service levels to meet business needs
Ability to operate in a complex multi-site environment and bring everyone on board to a single solution.
Experience in prioritisation and ability to work on multiple projects at once

What you'll get in return:

Competitive salary and job-related benefits
25 days Holiday
Competitive matched pension contributions
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

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