Procurement Category Manager

Samworth Brothers; East Midlands, Leicester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job description

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private health scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Profit related pay
• Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Procurement Category Manager to drive the best commercial, technical, and customer-focused outcomes within our packaging category. This role is all about optimizing supply, managing risk, and ensuring best-in-class packaging solutions for Samworth Brothers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Negotiate the best terms while ensuring that packaging suppliers and products align with financial, technical, and customer objectives.
• Have a deep understanding of packaging supply costs, enabling strategic decision-making.
• Develop robust long, medium, and short-term plans, providing accurate financial forecasts to support business planning.
• Create formal category strategies that align with business needs, supply market trends, and cost efficiencies.
• Implement risk management strategies to safeguard the supply chain and maximize opportunities.
• Bring the latest external thinking on responsible, environmental, and ethical best practices in packaging procurement.
• Work closely with suppliers to ensure total quality—service, product, and processes—keeping Samworth Brothers ahead in the market.

The Ideal Candidate

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:

• Food manufacturing experience
• Experience in a previous packaging position
• Understanding of Cost optimisation projects and how to deliver them
• Experience of working on sustainability topics
• Great people and management skills

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.