Location
Blagdon
Department
Procurement
Advertising Salary
£34,000 to £37,000 depending on experience
Advert Closing Date
19 Feb 2025

So, what will I be doing?

Yeo Valley is a distinctive, ambitious, and trusted manufacturing company that is committed to Nurturing & Nourishing People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever.

Reporting to the Supplier Relationships and Procurement Systems Manager, the SRM - Ingredients will be responsible for the day to day management of Yeo Valley Dairy and Fruits and Ingredients supplier contracts for our Yeo Valley Farms (Production) Ltd (YVFP) and Yeo Valley Fruits (YVF) You will work with suppliers and business stakeholders to ensure that our supplier contracts are effectively implemented; and supplier relationships are optimized to deliver maximum value for our business, customers and consumers.
 
Your Responsibilities:
  • Manage the review and implementation of supplier contract changes within agreed contractual frameworks. Updating contracted volume and commercial positions against business forecasts. Communicating to the wider business when actions or change approvals are required.
  • Providing regular category market updates to the business – using a range of market insight tools, supplier and business information.
  • Maintaining key category and supplier reports – including monthly price variance reports, supplier performance, sustainability reports and project updates.
  • Work with business stakeholders to manage adhoc supplier performance issues, or change requests to existing raw materials.
  • Support the Fruit, Ingredients and Dairy Procurement Teams  in delivering optimal supplier performance through managing the day to day performance of suppliers against agreed service levels and key performance indicators. Working with suppliers and business stakeholders to deliver agreed performance improvement action plans were appropriate.
  • Manage new product development requests – obtaining and reviewing supplier quotations from approved sources.
  • Provide business stakeholders with bespoke category information requests.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential:

  • Proven track record in managing supplier contracts, relationships and performance.
  • A great team player, collaborator and influencer.
  • Able to work to tight or challenging deadlines.
  • Self-motivated and adaptable, able to juggle multiple priorities.
  • Strong numerical, analytical and presentation skills.
Desirable:
  • Degree Educated or equivalent work experience
  • FMCG/Food manufacturing experience
  • Project Management experience

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

  • 33 days’ holiday, including bank holidays
  • non-contributory pension scheme
  • annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
  • life cover
  • healthcare cash back plan
  • Hybrid working company guidelines -  Whilst you will be expected to work some days per week in our office, we also support remote working for our co-owners .
  • cycle to work scheme
  • subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
  • preferential rates with our partners
  • learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow, We would consider supporting an apprenticeship candidate for this role.

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.


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