Procurement Manager
Location: Bedfordshire (with UK and European travel)
Are you a commercially minded procurement professional who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment? We’re looking for a proactive Procurement Manager to take ownership of sourcing strategies across a diverse range of ingredients and raw materials, while leading and developing a small team.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll play a key part in shaping procurement direction, building supplier partnerships, and ensuring consistent supply to support business growth.
On offer
- Competitive salary + package
- Enhanced holidays and company pension
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
What you’ll be doing
- Leading sourcing activities across key ingredient and raw material categories, ensuring quality, cost-efficiency and continuity of supply
- Monitoring market trends and commodity movements, providing insight to support business decisions
- Managing supplier relationships, driving performance, and identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation
- Overseeing tender processes, negotiating contracts, and implementing supplier agreements
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support product development and business initiatives
- Aligning local procurement activity with wider group strategies and contributing to strategic projects
- Developing and executing category strategies, balancing both local and global requirements
- Supporting and mentoring a direct report, fostering development and performance
- Managing budgets and delivering against financial targets and KPIs
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience in procurement within a food or ingredients-based environment
- Strong negotiation and supplier management skills
- Ability to analyse data and translate insights into actionable strategies
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders in a matrix environment
- Confident communicator, able to influence at all levels including senior stakeholders
- Organised and self-sufficient, with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Commercial awareness, with a solid understanding of financial metrics
- Familiarity with sourcing processes, trade terms, and supply chain principles
- Previous team leadership experience is advantageous
- Proficiency in Excel (e.g. Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP)
- Degree in Procurement, Supply Chain or a related discipline is desirable
What to expect
- A varied role combining both strategic and operational procurement
- Opportunities to contribute to wider business initiatives and innovation
- Regular UK travel and occasional European travel (approximately 2–4 trips per year)
- A collaborative and forward-thinking working environment
If you’re looking for a role where you can make a real impact and take ownership of procurement activities within a growing and dynamic business, we’d love to hear from you.