* Procurement & Costings Manager
* Surrey/Hybrid
* 50k-60k Base + great benefits package
My client is a growing and disruptive private label supplier of finished nutritional supplements. They partner with brands to deliver premium and bespoke products, from concept through to launch, offering finished units across a wide variety of nutritional products.
As part of their continued growth, they are seeking a Procurement & Costing Manager to lead and elevate their procurement and costing functions. This is a hands on leadership role, overseeing the Procurement team and taking responsibility for strategic cost control, supplier relationships, budgeting, stock management and supplier contracts.
The idea procurement manager will have:
· Proven experience (6+ years) in procurement or buying roles, ideally in the food, food supplements, nutraceuticals, or related FMCG industries.
· Experience in checking, validating, and approving cost models to ensure accuracy and consistency across multiple product lines.
· Confidence in providing final authorisation of costs and being accountable for commercial accuracy.
· Demonstrable supplier negotiation experience: contracts, pricing, shipping/freight terms.
· Familiarity with import/export logistics, duties, compliance.
· Experience managing demand forecasting, inventory planning, reduction of waste or short-dated stock.
· Strong analytical skills; adept at working with numbers, Excel, data analysis; comfortable with financial modelling.
· Leadership experience, able to mentor, manage, and develop more junior procurement staff.
· Excellent communication skills; able to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders.
· Highly organised; good multi-tasker; able to manage competing priorities under pressure.
· Strong IT skills; experience with ERP/procurement software; ideally also comfortable with reporting tools and dashboards.
· Outstanding attention to detail, but also able to see strategic, long-term opportunities.
Please apply and contact James Wilkinson at enthrive ltd if you have the pre-requisites required to thrive in this opportunity