NPD Buyer

Why Greencore?

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Here at Manton Wood, we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl.

Our Manton Wood site has a gym, restaurant with hot food and a staff shop available to all our colleagues.

What you'll be doing

We are looking for an NPD (New Product Development Buyer, to source safe, commercially competitive and great tasting food in line with procurement strategies to provide food innovation solutions for the business. To do this, you will manage a small lead buying portfolio for Greencore

• Lead the effective and accurate NPD sourcing on new raw materials in line with business requirements, contributing ideas and information, and ensuring timely delivery of requirements to the Product Development teams
• In depth supplier knowledge of sourcing area and avoidance of margin creep through product churn
• Ensure products are sourced in alignment with Greencore Purchasing Excellence, procurement strategy and objectives; and the process is compliant with the internal functional processes
• Represent NPD buying and or lead specific projects that contribute to our strategic innovation agenda, identifying suppliers and sourcing ingredients in line with the strategy
• Act as the conduit between the innovation category teams and the lead buyers for your sourcing areas to ensure future innovation strategy is aligned with consumer, customer and business needs
• Manage a portfolio of Lead Buying areas within the function, ensuring compliance to systems and processes, monitoring and managing risks relating to material availability and input cost inflation
• Maintenance of a pipeline library of innovation or great products for the sourcing area that is easily accessible to customer teams

What we're looking for

• Degree calibre or equivalent
• Food knowledge and passion
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office systems
• Cross functional stakeholder management experience These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Car Allowance
• 25 days holiday
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.