Logistics Buyer
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Buyer - Logistics
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 a Logistics Buyer, you’ll be supporting the procurement strategy for the Logistics team to maximise cost savings whilst maintaining standards.
About the role…
The role supports the execution of the procurement strategy for logistics 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.
• Identify, improve and manage all logistics suppliers at Nomad Foods, ensuring maximum value creation for all parties.
• Using market trends and forecasts to leverage negotiations with suppliers.
• Owning annual targets for cost saving, productivity improvements and reduction of COGs for the segment.
• Ensuring suppliers used are minimising environmental impact by working closely with the sustainability team.
• Working closely with Logistics team to identify suppliers based on optimal performance, and at times challenging decisions to ensure the best result for Nomad Foods.
About you…
A strong buyer with experience of logistics or indirect categories. Striving to deliver on cost-saving targets whilst maintaining high standards of performance and supplier relationships. You’ll be commercially driven and have strong communication skills for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Indirect procurement experience is essential.
• A knowledge / understanding of logistics is desirable (3PL, 4PL etc).
• 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.+ 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.
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Offer ID: #1029496,
Published: 2 weeks ago,
Company registered: 7 months ago
