Procurement Manager

The Role

As our Procurement Manager, you'll help shape the partnerships and sourcing strategies that keep Little Moons moving, growing and delighting customers. You'll play a central role in building a resilient, sustainable and future-focused supply base, ensuring we have the right ingredients, suppliers and solutions in place to support our ambitions.

As our Procurement Manager, you'll help shape the partnerships and sourcing strategies that keep Little Moons moving, growing and delighting customers. You'll play a central role in building a resilient, sustainable and future-focused supply base, ensuring we have the right ingredients, suppliers and solutions in place to support our ambitions.
You'll bring the outside world in, keeping a close eye on market trends, supplier opportunities and emerging risks, then turning those insights into smart commercial decisions. Whether it's developing category strategies, uncovering new opportunities, strengthening supplier relationships or finding better ways of doing things, you'll be a driving force behind how we source, partner and grow.
Collaboration is a big part of life at Little Moons, so you'll work closely with teams across the business to understand what's needed today while helping us prepare for what's next. You'll build strong, trusted relationships internally and externally, bringing people together to solve challenges, spark innovation and create value beyond cost.
We're looking for someone who enjoys thinking strategically but isn't afraid to roll their sleeves up when needed. Someone who combines commercial savvy with curiosity, loves building great partnerships and gets excited about continuous improvement. You'll be empowered to challenge the status quo, explore new ideas and help shape the future of procurement as we continue on our growth journey.
As a leader within the team, you'll create an environment where people can do their best work, supporting development, sharing expertise and helping build a high-performing procurement function that's ready for what's next.
If you're energised by building meaningful supplier partnerships, influencing business decisions and making a real impact in a fast-paced, ambitious and people-first environment, we'd love to hear from you.

• Deliver the Procurement Strategy in line with business objectives.
• Translate company growth plans into effective sourcing and supplier strategies.
• Support the Head of SC & P to build and maintain a multi-year procurement roadmap.
• Drive adherence to procurement governance, policies and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement across procurement processes, systems and ways of working.
• Act as the procurement lead for key business initiatives and transformational projects.

• Lead, coach and develop the procurement team to create a high-performing function.
• Establish clear objectives, development plans and succession planning.
• Promote a culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Ensure procurement capability evolves in line with business growth requirements.
• Act as a mentor and escalation point for complex commercial and supplier issues.

• Develop partnerships with key suppliers and manufacturing partners.
• Establish supplier segmentation and relationship management frameworks.
• Identify opportunities for joint innovation, cost optimisation and sustainability improvements.
• Drive supplier performance through robust governance and KPI management.

• Deliver procurement savings, cost avoidance and value creation targets.
• With the Head of SC & P own procurement budget performance and savings forecasting.
• Define commercial negotiation strategies for key spend areas.
• Challenge existing cost structures and identify opportunities to improve margin.
• Ensure appropriate contractual protection and commercial governance is in place.

• Own the procurement risk management framework.
• Ensure robust mitigation plans exist across strategic suppliers, ingredients and packaging.
• Monitor market volatility, geopolitical developments and supply chain risks.
• Lead procurement's response to significant supply disruptions.
• Develop long-term resilience strategies to support business continuity.

• Create supplier-enabled innovation pipelines to support future growth.
• Support expansion into new products, channels and markets through effective sourcing strategies.
• Identify and introduce new suppliers, technologies and capabilities.
• Ensure procurement is engaged early in the innovation process to maximise value creation.

• Lead delivery of responsible sourcing and supply chain sustainability objectives.
• Drive supplier engagement and alignment against the Little Moons Positive Sourcing standard
• Support carbon reduction, packaging sustainability and responsible sourcing initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with…