Product and Procurement Manager Job England UK,Supply Chain/Logistics

About The Role

Are you ready to shape the future of our Hand Protection range and drive commercial growth across this category? As our Product & Procurement Manager, you’ll own the commercial performance and product direction of our Hand Protection categories. From managing strategic suppliers and leading tenders to developing innovative own-label products, you’ll play a key role in shaping our range and delivering growth.

This is a role for someone who thrives across product, procurement and commercial performance. You’ll turn customer and market insight into effective range strategies, drive supplier performance and ensure our products deliver the right balance of quality, value, service and profitability. The role is for our Hand Protection category, but we are open to receiving applications from candidates in similar roles who may have owned a different safety product or PPE category.

Our Product & Procurement role is a hybrid position, with a mix of home working and from our Head Office in Hull.

Key responsibilities include:

Owning and delivering category sales, gross margin, contribution and budget targets across your assigned PPE product areas
Setting the commercial direction for the category, translating market insight, customer demand and business priorities into clear range, supplier and procurement plans
Leading tender-led sourcing and procurement activity, ensuring robust cost negotiation, supplier selection, value creation and risk control
Managing day-to-day vendor performance across service, availability, quality, cost, innovation and commercial support
Building and controlling a balanced portfolio of proprietary brands and own-label products to maximise category relevance, competitiveness and margin return
Driving own-label development from specification through launch, ensuring commercial viability, compliance, customer fit and differentiated market positioning
Controlling product lifecycle decisions, including range entry, exit, consolidation, substitution and rationalisation
Using sales, margin, stock, service and supplier performance data to identify underperformance and take corrective commercial action
Establishing and maintaining pricing, rebate, cost and margin controls to protect profitability and improve competitiveness
Partnering with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Technical and Compliance teams to deliver effective launches, campaigns, availability and customer solutions
Challenging supplier performance through structured reviews, clear KPIs, corrective actions and commercially focused governance
Monitoring competitor activity, regulatory change, product innovation and customer trends to protect and improve category position
Providing clear reporting on category performance, risks, opportunities and progress against agreed targets

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

A competitive starting salary plus bonus and a car allowance
32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays
Opportunity to purchase 5 additional days annual leave each calendar year (subject to qualifying salary)
2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
An excellent pension (up to 8% Arco contribution) and x4 Life Assurance scheme
A huge range of discounts to help with cost of living via Perkbox plus Employee Discount on Arco products
Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
Health Cash Plan where we'll reimburse up to 100% of everyday healthcare costs
Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

The ideal Product & Procurement Manager will be/have:

Strong commercial product, category or…