Senior Food Buyer
3 days ago
This is a great opportunity to join the dynamic Babylonstoren team to assist in expanding our food product offering. You need to be solution orientated, with experience in food procurement. The role suits a highly motivated individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and who can easily adapt to changing market and organisational requirements. You need to be passionate about your work to the point where it inspires others.
**Responsibilities**:
- Lead new product development for our outsourced food products in support of our food strategy
- Perform end-to-end activities relevant to procurement of food products
- Identify adequate new suppliers and build and maintain strong supplier relationships with both new and existing suppliers
- Prepare and review proposals, contracts and supplier agreements for legal correctness, price and acceptability of items in terms of specifications
- Ensure quality of all sourced products is in line with our product quality standard
- Manage risk and procedures associated with food products
**Technical knowledge, skills and abilities**:
- Relevant commercial degree/diploma
- Minimum 8-10 years’ retail buying experience
- Previous experience in a procurement management role with demonstrable results in complex buying within a food manufacturing environment is essential
- Previous experience of product development in food production
- Knowledge of logistics/warehousing and delivery systems and procedures
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills
- Good planning and project management skills
- Strong negotiation skills and must be able to work under pressure
- Excellent command of Afrikaans and English
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