Buying Manager

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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