Stone Fruit Procurement Specialist


KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
• Develop new suppliers and regions to help fulfil UK retail demands for Stone fruit.
• A product specialist that can both procure and sell fruit to other regions
• Liaison with overseas suppliers on volumes, prices, and agree supply programmes.
• Monitoring supply from growers on a daily basis
• Liaison with the stone fruit Sales manager and growers on supply vs customer requirements
• Managing overseas transport logistics for both imports and potential exports
• Running weekly accounting, preparing any claims and managing P/L of overseas supplier accounts alongside Procurement Administration
• Liaison with accounts on invoices and claims

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Liaison with the business and suppliers on short medium and long term planning and availability of fruit.
• UK Business development planning to be conducted in collaboration with the stone fruit sales manager.
• Export business development to be conducted in collaboration with the Buying Director and stone fruit sales manager.
• Liaison with current and potential suppliers on prices and agreeing programmes for both imports and potential exports.
• Preparing weekly supplier programmes tailored to customer demand
• Managing logistics and load plans ex source for all countries.
• Daily liaison with sales team and QC team on customer requirements in terms of volumes, quality and varieties
• Monitoring quality reports, stock rotation and Wares packing charges
• Monitoring programme vs actual on deliveries to highlight any shortages/over supply
• Preparation of supplier returns/invoicing incorporating any necessary claims, and monitoring P/L of overseas supplier accounts
• Team support should it be required.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
1. Evidence of extensive experience working in a comparable role, preferably within the stone fruit industry.
1. Be able to communicate in Spanish at a level which enables you to work with non-English speaking suppliers.
1. Strong appreciation of our business needs and resourcefulness in coming up with solutions to their challenges
1. Ability to relate to key clients personnel in a professional and credible fashion
1. Good interpersonal skills and well developed leadership and management skills
1. Creativity / experience in new business development overseas
1. Ability to delegate effectively and to follow-up as appropriate
1. Ability to work as part of a team with colleagues across professional, operational and cultural boundaries
1. Proactive approach and prompt responses to all service requests
1. Ability to identify needs and issues and recommend suitable and pragmatic courses of action and solutions, adopting a risk aware approach
1. Very good organisational and communication skills
1. Good IT skills, experience of Prophet, MRP, Business objects

Interpersonnel UK Ltd is acting as a recruitment consultancy on behalf of our client. Interpersonnel is an equal opportunities employer.
We are pleased to receive a significant number of applications for most roles advertised. We are therefore unable to respond to individual applicants unless shortlisted. If you have not been contacted within four weeks of the closing date you should assume you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.