Head of Procurement

About Us:

At itsu
, we're passionate about making healthy eating exciting, accessible, and affordable. As an Asian-inspired food brand, we’ve grown to over 80 restaurants across the UK and Belgium
, while building a thriving grocery business that reaches customers across Europe and beyond. Known for our fresh, high-quality food prepared daily in every shop, we're on an ambitious growth journey. With plans to expand our store estate, accelerate our grocery presence, and continue investing in innovation, technology, and our people, we're shaping the future of healthy fast food.

itsu [ grocery ], where this role sits, extends the much-loved itsu brand beyond our shops and into supermarkets, health food retailers, online channels, wholesale partners, and international markets. Our growing product range includes customer favourites such as crispy seaweed thins, frozen gyoza and bao, brilliant'broth, rice'noodles, and miso'easy
, bringing the taste and quality of itsu into homes around the world.

Joining itsu means becoming part of a fast-paced, innovative business with big ambitions, a strong culture, and a shared mission to help people eat beautifully every day.

As Head of Procurement
, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the procurement strategy, ensuring it supports business growth, innovation, profitability and sustainability goals. Leading both supplier partnerships and a high-performing team, you'll drive commercial value, supply resilience and continuous improvement across the procurement and ESG agenda. you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the procurement strategy, ensuring it supports business growth, innovation, profitability and sustainability goals.

Leading both supplier partnerships and a high-performing team, you'll drive commercial value, supply resilience and continuous improvement across the procurement and ESG agenda.

• Develop and Deliver our Procurement Strategy

Create and implement a procurement strategy that aligns to the business growth, profit, innovation and sustainability objectives. Deliver a proactive cost management approach identifying improvements through negotiation, benchmarking and tendering. Ensure procurement work hand in hand with our NPD and technical teams in sourcing & selecting suppliers capable of delivering our innovation pipeline to market in line with our sourcing principles.

• Lead our Supplier Relationships

Oversee the selection, onboarding and ongoing management of our suppliers, through an empowered procurement team. Act as the initial point of escalation across the business for supplier related issues or opportunities. Lead contract drafting and negotiations ensuring terms are well structured, maintained and do not lapse. Support the wider business on contracts & tenders.

• Manage our BCP process

Lead the overall cross functional business continuity planning process, with specific responsibility for our suppliers ensuring supply resilience and cost protection.

• ESG

Oversee our ESG strategy, Ensure adherence to our sourcing policies & certification standards. Review policies, procedures and processes periodically to keep in line with trends & regulatory changes

• Build and Lead a High-Performing Procurement Team

Build and lead high-performing procurement & ESG teams, with excellent cross functional collaboration. Create a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Join a collaborative and forward-thinking business where people are empowered to drive positive change, and make a meaningful impact. We foster a culture of accountability, teamwork and continuous improvement, where innovation is encouraged and success is celebrated together.