Operations and Procurement Team Manager

• Flax Bourton, Bristol, North Somerset, BS48 1UL
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Operations and Procurement Team Manager

Head of Procurement

Operations and Procurement Specialist(s), and other specialist roles as the team grows

FSC Bristol Innovation Centre (BIC), Farleigh Church, Farleigh Court, Old Weston Road, Flax Bourton, Bristol, North Somerset BS48 1UL
, GB, with travel to other UK locations as required

Competitive salary + healthcare scheme + other company benefits

Permanent, full time, 35 hours per week; office-based with flexible working options considered

FSC is a family business with more than 35 years of award-winning experience in creating, rolling out and managing bespoke customer food-on-the-move solutions. Our customers include a selection of blue-chip companies in various industries, such as Shell, National Trust, Waterstones and Dunelm.

We offer a range of consultancy services drawing on our in-depth knowledge of the food-on-the-move sector and have managed projects all over the world.

Our Head Office is located in the world-famous village of Cheddar, our Innovation Centre is based near Bristol in Flax Bourton. Internationally, we also have offices in Prague (Czech Republic) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Although our colleagues are based all over the world, we regularly get together to review performance, share best practice and socialise! As well as working in a challenging and fast-moving environment, we believe it is important to have a big chunk of fun and no day is ever the same at FSC.

At FSC we believe in ethical stewardship of all aspects within our business. This means that we thrive in a diverse, equitable culture where we celebrate inclusion and empowerment within our teams, and seek to always support our global community, minimising our carbon footprint wherever possible.

To help grow this awareness we have adopted a company wide ESG focus.

The Operations and Procurement Team Manager is a blended role: hands-on day-to-day operations and procurement delivery within FSC’s UK Agile business, combined with line management of the team’s Operations and Procurement colleagues, ensuring operational and procurement activities run smoothly and remain aligned to FSC’s strategic goals. Day to day, they personally source ingredients, packaging and finished product, negotiate with suppliers, manufacturers and distributors, and build a strong product and commercial understanding of suppliers and manufacturers as part of an Agile scrum team.

Alongside this, they lead and manage the team’s day-to-day activity, distribute workload effectively, develop team capability, and report on team performance to the Head of Procurement. The successful candidate will operate confidently and independently as a sourcing and supplier specialist in their own right, while bringing the people management skills to lead, coach and hold a small team accountable for delivery in a fast-moving, customer-focused consultancy environment.

Stakeholder & Project Delivery:
Develop strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to identify and resolve risks and ensure successful delivery of the critical path, update the Agile team on operational project tasks, activities and risks at the daily stand-up, and use agreed project tools to capture and present information.
Sourcing & Supplier Management:
Source ingredients, packaging and finished product to meet project and customer requirements, negotiate regularly with suppliers, manufacturers and distributors to achieve commercial targets for both FSC and the customer, and work with Technical and Finance to approve new suppliers and products.
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