Senior Category Manager Full time, permanent West Midlands or London Salary - £60k-70k pa I am currently working alongside a market leading retail company who are looking to take on-board an experienced Senior Category Manager to come in and help the progression of the business during an exciting time as they plan to reach new heights. My client has very realistic plans to be the top company globally to help people understand how to live longer, healthier, happier lives. This is a role that can be based either in the West Midlands or in London and offers hybrid working. Having experience within procurement for food is essential! working in Food Category you will report to the Head of Category for Food and will own the product management process of a specialist, market leading retailer - from the drawing board into our customers' hands. You will be responsible for 2 of our biggest and most strategically important categories. Main responsibilities: Continuously reviewing current Category performance and the marketplace, to ensure you understand how your area is currently trading, and how you can build on this to deliver profitable growth. Working with the Own-Label Buying and Product Development Teams, and the supplier base, to deliver an innovative and profitable product range to meet anticipated customer demand and improve the commercial performance of the Category. Leading supplier negotiations and joint business planning for our key strategic partners, to maximise profitability, ensuring that suppliers meet requirements on margin, marketing support and delivery performance. Leading the promotional trade planning process and master plan for the category, which is customer led and drives profitable sales growth, and being supplier funding champion/lead for the category. Delivering range reviews for your category focused on meeting the needs of our customers and delivering profitable growth. Working with the Trade Planning and marketing teams to maximise the success of promotional activity and NPD launches. Working with the Digital team to understand our customer behaviour online and tailor purchasing mechanics for trial, conversion & repeat. Providing information and analysis to assess levels of slow moving & dormant stock and work with the team to clear. Maintain stock at agreed levels for planned activity and to reduce overstocks. Line management of our buying admin assistants, responsible for performance and development through objective setting, coaching and development. By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data.

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Materials Manager Full time, Permanent West Midlands Salary - Competitive Are you a Materials Manager with experience working in the aerospace or automotive sectors? If so, Gleeson Recruitment Group has a fantastic opportunity available for you. We are looking for a Materials Manager that will be reporting directly in to the Vice President of procurement and will be focusing on meeting the requirements for raw materials inclusive of all management of the material planning team and enabled suppliers for all the business areas. Key responsibilities include: Material requirement plan exception reports Update from suppliers with certs delivered Management of material launch charts daily Management of stock list / stock reporting Management of material in review in conjunction with contract review Management of material requirement plan with purchase orders place orders or amend orders work with customer order administrator Check and sign purchase orders Work with operational planning team to ensure a material launch performance of 95% New product induction work with engineers for samples and bulk material to meet time scales Monitor delivery dates on purchase orders and supplier performance Lead material supplier performance reviews internally and externally with material class suppliers along with key internal stakeholders Management of C-Class bought out finished products Lead and manage goods inwards department to issue material to the forging areas with a launch performance of a minimum 95% Management of the material supply chain to ensure delivery on time to purchase orders Work with accounts and suppliers to resolve invoice queries work with sales on price and delivery for quotations in a timely and effective manner Management of unacknowledged orders If this is something that you feel could be a suitable role, please email By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data.

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Commercial Buyer Leeds Permanent, Full time £40,000-45,000 pa My client is looking for an experienced Commercial Buyer with a strong Manufacturing/Engineering background to join the procurement team to be responsible for leading and managing all purchasing related activity for assigned Products and Services within nominated projects, from negotiations at upfront client tender to placement of order and delivery of product and development of the supplier and their performance. The ideal candidate will have the following: Familiar with developing Supplier strategies Excellent communication skills Excellent negotiating / cost analysis skills Strong teamwork ethic Excellent Influencing and persuasion skills Experienced practitioner within the development of KPI's to drive continuous improvement within overall Supplier Performance Attention to detail Project management skills Relationship management skills Commercial acumen Customer focused / Customer orientated Organisation skills Problem solving skills Ability to act independently Flexibility and ability to adapt to change Ability to work within a change management environment Flexibility and willingness to travel in accordance with business requirements If this is an opportunity that you could be suited to, please contact By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data.

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Senior Buyer Leeds Permanent, Full time £40,000-45,000 pa My client is looking for an experienced Senior Buyer with a strong Manufacturing/Engineering background to join the procurement team to be responsible for leading and managing all purchasing related activity for assigned Products and Services within their commodity from placement of order to delivery of product and development of the supplier and their performance. 1st level supervision activities for an assigned commodity team. The ideal candidate will have the following: Familiar with developing Supplier strategies Excellent communication skills Excellent negotiating / cost analysis skills Assertiveness Team Management Strong teamwork ethic Excellent Influencing and persuasion skills Experienced practitioner within the development of KPI's to drive continuous improvement within overall Supplier Performance Attention to detail Project management skills Relationship management skills Commercial acumen Customer focused / Customer orientated Organisation skills Problem solving skills Ability to act independently Flexibility and ability to adapt to change Ability to work within a change management environment Flexibility and willingness to travel in accordance with business requirements If this is an opportunity that you could be suited to, please contact By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data.

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