C&D Foods is one of Europe's leading own label pet food manufacturers producing a range of wet and dry pet foods.
Part of The APB Food Group, C&D Foods has grown to become one of the industry's leading pet food producers.
C&D Foods has 9 production facilities across 7 Countries (Ireland, the UK, France, Denmark, Austria, Spain, and The Netherlands) and 2 sales offices located in Manchester and Italy.
C&D Foods' Headquarters is in Mullingar, County Westmeath.
The purpose of this role would be to manage key group suppliers and projects across all sites.
Key Responsibilities:
Management of the Top 20 Key Suppliers within the wet and dry division.
Management of key Ingredients across the wet and dry division Develop strategic partners and materials for our dry petfood plants Develop new and improved procurement strategies across all channels of purchasing.
Challenging the market for better value.
Reporting to key commodity based longer term strategies to finance.
Ad hoc Procurement projects.
Values and Ways of Working:
Team player with a Positive Attitude Flexible with a willingness to adapt to change Strong Work ethic Highly organised and structured Self-Motivated Personal Competencies and Qualifications: Data analysis and numeric skills with the ability to evaluate analyse and present data.
Practical and proactive approach to problem solving and process improvement.
Solution orientated analytical planning skills.
Strong work ethic, perseverance and flexibility.
Organised and able to react to the challenges of a fast moving environment.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, both written and verbal.
Ability to build effective relationships in a cross-functional team environment.
The ability to deliver quality work to tight deadlines.
Proficient in Excel.
A self-starting innovative individual who also can work as part of a team.
Availability to travel Circa 40% of the role is travelling.