Procurement Manager - Indirects - Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 8EQ
Permanent - Full-TimeSalary: Negotiable
Why Join Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, Greencore is one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we employ over 28,000 colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Our products span every meal occasion, and in FY25 our shared passion helped deliver combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct-to-store network ensures fresh and frozen food reaches thousands of stores every day. To support this scale, we are delivering a significant transformation through our Making Business Easier (MBE) programme, and this role is a key part of making that change land successfully.
Role Purpose:
Responsible for the commercial aspects and overall supplier performance for goods and services purchased from suppliers for their categories of spend, and continuously creates additional value for money for Greencore. Pro-actively engage with stakeholders across Greencore to encourage best practice and owns the commercial aspects of projects that involve suppliers
Key Accountabilities:
- Create additional value for money for goods and services, balancing price, service and quality and meeting the business needs through undertaking negotiations, selection of suppliers and contracting of business
- Build great relationships with stakeholders and provide professional procurement expertise and commercial focus. Be able to challenge the way Greencore do things and introduce best procurement practice. Be an ambassador for indirects procurement to change the business behaviours and culture
- Take a strategic category view to manage areas of spend, identify savings opportunities, and drive consistency across Greencore. This includes analysing spend bases, consolidating the supply base across Greencore where appropriate, driving consistent ways of working across Greencore, sourcing from fit for purpose suppliers, managing supplier performance, resolving issues, negotiating the optimum price, service and quality parameters, and agreeing contracts and service levels
- Project manage the delivery of initiatives to address a business need or to create additional value. This includes aligning multiple stakeholders, identifying the business needs and risks, project planning, running tenders, negotiation, contracting, communication, approval, implementation planning and then subsequent supplier management and issue resolution to ensure the supplier meets the contract
- Negotiating and implementing contracts when needed, ensuring each contract is appropriately tailored to the requirements of the business, including creating business appropriate service levels and addressing any specific risks and liabilities
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Degree calibre with indirect procurement experience
- Excellent commercial insight combined with negotiation skills
- Ability to build good relationships with stakeholders with excellent communication and influencing skills
- Ability to analyse data, identify and evaluate options and implement recommendations
- Able to assess and adapt a contract to mitigate liabilities in line with business risk and create service levels to meet business needs
- Ability to operate in a complex multi-site environment and bring everyone on board to a single solution.
- Experience in prioritisation and ability to work on multiple projects at once
What you'll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform