Senior Procurement Business Partner - #144134

Job Title: Senior Procurement Business Partner

Location: Hemel Hempstead – Hybrid, with travel to other sites, offices and depots

Job Length: Permanent – Full Time

Competitive Salary with extensive benefits:

• Car Allowance
• Product allowance – alcoholic & non alcoholic choices
• Company bonus scheme
• Life Assurance
• Access to 24/7 GP services
• Company pension contribution
• Generous holiday (inc bank holidays & trading)
• Access to a range of high street discounts
  
  

Carlsberg Britvic is the largest multi-beverage supplier in the UK and is home to some of the most iconic and popular beers & soft drinks, including Carlsberg Danish Pilsner, 1664, Poretti and Brooklyn to ale favourites such as Hobgoblin and Wainwright. For soft drinks, Carlsberg Britvic’s brands include J2O, Robinsons, Tango and London Essence along with the licence rights to the Pepsi portfolio in the UK including Pepsi MAX, 7UP, Lipton Ice Tea and Rockstar Energy.

With a strong national footprint, the Carlsberg Britvic business includes 6 production facilities and 16 logistics depot’s servicing customers up and down the UK. As these two historical businesses have come together, the one common goal remains, and that is ensuring our people succeed.

If you are interested in joining our journey, we are now recruiting for a Senior Procurement Business Partner. Reporting to the VP – Finance, this role will play a key part of our success journey, and you will have the opportunity to be involved in the following:

Role Responsibilities:

• Be a local representative of regional procurement and act as a main point of contact for internal stakeholders.
• Ensure procurement value is delivered locally, guaranteeing maximum impact to the local P&L.
• Actively engage in discussions on value, project pipelines and budgets involving P&L and collaborate amongst relevant stakeholders and colleagues.
• Managing the local procurement resources, providing support and guidance to maximise procurement delivered value and smooth project execution.
• Ensure value is delivered through robust local spend transparency, tenders and contract negotiations.
• Ensuring correct procedure and compliance to purchasing policy, building bridges between local business, central procurement and the Procurement Operating Centre.
  
  

Experience and Key Attributes:

• Previous experience in a relevant strategic or tactical procurement role, at a regional or global level, with a commercial focus.
• Degree educated, or experience educated – commercial background desired, ideally in a global Matrix based organisation.
• Proven experience in sourcing, negotiation, contract planning and execution.
• Ability to collect and analyse quantitative/ qualitative information to assess, screen and select suppliers.
• Strong knowledge of Source-to-Pay processes, financial impact understanding and experience with spend, demand, market and industry analyses.
• Extensive experience in team management, building stakeholder relationships with the ability to work cross functionally.
• Knowledge of SAP and Ariba or a local ERP/ procurement system with extensive use of Microsoft systems, specifically Excel.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal.
  
  

This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people.

Interested in finding out more? Apply today and a member of the recruitment team will be in touch!

Application Process:

We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled anytime, so please apply as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application.

CMBC is a new company, fuelled by highly engaged, empowered and passionate employees who will go above and beyond to deliver best in class customer service and help grow our portfolio of brands and business. With their entrepreneurial spirit, these employees take personal accountability and initiative to act and find solutions. Our employees work hard and have fun, enjoying supportive relationships that extend across the whole business.