Buying Manager – Food & Non-Food
£65,000 per annum
London
JSS are supporting a well-known food business to recruit a Buying Manager (Food/Non-Food)
The Role
This role goes far beyond traditional procurement. The successful candidate will play a key role in building a commercially successful menu and ensuring products deliver both customer value and strong business performance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing and challenging cost prices with a clear understanding of value drivers
- Balancing quality, sourcing and commercial targets while protecting product integrity
- Supporting decisions on ingredients, suppliers and product formats with both short- and long-term commercial thinking
- Ensuring consistency and accuracy in product costing and margin delivery
- Working cross-functionally with food development, finance and operations teams to connect product decisions to operational performance
- Driving continuous improvement across cost, quality and value strategies
- Building collaborative, long-term supplier relationships based on partnership and transparency
The successful candidate will be expected to connect commercial decision-making with operational execution.
About You
The business is looking for someone who combines strong commercial instincts with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
You will likely be:
- Commercially aware, with a strong understanding of margins, pricing and trade-offs
- 4/5 years of procurement experience within the food related industries
- Proactive and action-oriented
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and change
- Agile, resourceful and able to solve problems independently
- Passionate about food, ingredients, sourcing and product quality
Buying Manager – Food & Non-Food
£65,000 per annum
London
JSS are supporting a well-known food business to recruit a Buying Manager (Food/Non-Food)
The Role
This role goes far beyond traditional procurement. The successful candidate will play a key role in building a commercially successful menu and ensuring products deliver both customer value and strong business performance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing and challenging cost prices with a clear understanding of value drivers
- Balancing quality, sourcing and commercial targets while protecting product integrity
- Supporting decisions on ingredients, suppliers and product formats with both short- and long-term commercial thinking
- Ensuring consistency and accuracy in product costing and margin delivery
- Working cross-functionally with food development, finance and operations teams to connect product decisions to operational performance
- Driving continuous improvement across cost, quality and value strategies
- Building collaborative, long-term supplier relationships based on partnership and transparency
The successful candidate will be expected to connect commercial decision-making with operational execution.
About You
The business is looking for someone who combines strong commercial instincts with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
You will likely be:
- Commercially aware, with a strong understanding of margins, pricing and trade-offs
- 4/5 years of procurement experience within the food related industries
- Proactive and action-oriented
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and change
- Agile, resourceful and able to solve problems independently
- Passionate about food, ingredients, sourcing and product quality
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