Procurement Analyst

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Join our dynamic team and play a key role in shaping the procurement strategy for the Thorntons & Eat Natural brands! You’ll collaborate with raw material and packaging buyers to drive maximum value, ensuring the right quality, at the right place, at the right time, and at the right cost. Work cross-functionally with both internal teams and external partners to optimise profitability in a fast-paced, complex environment.

Help create products that delight customers, while ensuring smooth connections between our business and supply chain. Ready to make an impact? Come be part of something exciting!

• Support the development and execution of strategic sourcing for raw materials and packaging, ensuring alignment with group and local sourcing strategies.
• Assist in budget creation, financial forecasting, and cost reduction initiatives; provide accurate and timely updates on procurement costs.
• Help manage supplier performance, focusing on quality, timeliness, cost, and service; collaborate with internal stakeholders to communicate performance issues and track rejections and material concessions.
• Ensure compliance with purchasing policies, DLA, and CSR standards; lead internal audits and resolve non-conformances.
• Prepare RFQs, analyse quotes, negotiate with suppliers, and oversee the placement of contracts, SLAs, and POs; manage supplier relationships and ensure timely delivery.
• Carry out key administrative tasks such as setting up suppliers, managing POs, handling supplier claims, invoice holds, aged stock, and managing write-off budgets.
• Support daily BPO requirements, confirm volumes and prices, and assist with the artwork process.

• We are looking for candidates with strong experience in procurement or strategic sourcing, particularly in raw materials and packaging.
• Comfortable managing budgets, forecasting costs, and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Experience in supplier performance management, including tracking quality, timeliness, and cost; familiarity with contract management and negotiation.
• Detail-oriented with ability to handle administrative tasks like supplier setup and POs; effective communication with internal teams and suppliers.
• Experience in the FMCG sector is a plus; familiarity with ERP systems like SAP.
• Careers with caring built in - discover our benefits here.

Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at .

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey  diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.

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