Fixed Term Contract Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're 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're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Experience in capital expenditure across manufacturing and civil sectors is essential, knowledge of JCT contracts is desirable. This role is based at our head office in Leeds Broad Gate, and candidates must hold a valid driving licence. Role Purpose: Procurement Manager - Capex. 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 Ideally have food manufacturing 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 Holidays Competitive matched pension contributions Life insurance up to 4x salary Company share save scheme Greencore qualifications Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career. We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.
Oct 10, 2026
Full time
Fixed Term Contract Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're 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're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Experience in capital expenditure across manufacturing and civil sectors is essential, knowledge of JCT contracts is desirable. This role is based at our head office in Leeds Broad Gate, and candidates must hold a valid driving licence. Role Purpose: Procurement Manager - Capex. 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 Ideally have food manufacturing 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 Holidays Competitive matched pension contributions Life insurance up to 4x salary Company share save scheme Greencore qualifications Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career. We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.
Inbound Supply Chain Compliance Manager Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're 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're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately GBP4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Role Purpose: Manage compliance for inbound supply chain, this may include; Raw Materials, Packaging control, Quality Systems and Technical Administration. Interfacing and providing effective communication with group services, sites, suppliers and authorities. Key Accountabilities: Raw Materials Compliance and Set Up - ensure all raw material product approvals, specs, and other standards are compliant with site, group and customer requirements, and details are set up in relevant systems before launch. Any issues should be proactively dealt with and escalated to the relevant technical manager. Quality Management Systems - Manage and develop the Quality Management System across the inbound logistics functions, ensuring that all QMS documentation is up to date, relevant & controlled and meets the requirements of accreditations held, legislation, industry standards and Greencore group. Where requirements for Inbound Supply chain are not specified, or not considered complete enough, then review customer, business and industry codes of practice (including AEO and other related areas) and implement agreed procedures and controls, updating Update QMS as appropriate, communicating to the business, central technical and sites effectively Inbound Supply Chain compliance and Set Up - Understand and apply relevant standards, codes of practice and ensure all legal requirements are achieved and maintained to ensure effective controls for assuring supply chain integrity and security. Including administration of relevant set up information for service suppliers and product controls through risk assessment. Communicating integrity controls for sites receiving materials through inbound logistics operation. Audit - To establish and maintain a process of internal auditing against the QMS to ensure compliance, actions are communicated and closed out within agreed timescales to drive standards and compliance. To establish or review and amend procedures as required by accreditations held, new business initiatives or new internal systems. Management and support - Proactively participate in the Senior team, provide practical support across the different functional teams in inbound logistics, to drive to promote a Quality Assurance culture in the business Site and central Interaction.Proactively engage with central functions and all sites receiving materials through BIL, communicating and aligning Inbound Logistics compliance controls. Communication - To positively communicate technical issues and horizon scan future concerns. To collate information relating to food issues / scares and similar events and communicate to Technical Management Team and other key business interfaces as required. Communication with GC Central technical function, Site Technical teams and Inbound Logistics SLT Health and Safety - To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment. Knowledge, Skills and Experience Service Supplier Management Greencore site visits System management and auditing skills Influencing skills Presentation skills Customs and SPS controls for importing goods 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
Oct 08, 2026
Full time
Inbound Supply Chain Compliance Manager Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're 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're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately GBP4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Role Purpose: Manage compliance for inbound supply chain, this may include; Raw Materials, Packaging control, Quality Systems and Technical Administration. Interfacing and providing effective communication with group services, sites, suppliers and authorities. Key Accountabilities: Raw Materials Compliance and Set Up - ensure all raw material product approvals, specs, and other standards are compliant with site, group and customer requirements, and details are set up in relevant systems before launch. Any issues should be proactively dealt with and escalated to the relevant technical manager. Quality Management Systems - Manage and develop the Quality Management System across the inbound logistics functions, ensuring that all QMS documentation is up to date, relevant & controlled and meets the requirements of accreditations held, legislation, industry standards and Greencore group. Where requirements for Inbound Supply chain are not specified, or not considered complete enough, then review customer, business and industry codes of practice (including AEO and other related areas) and implement agreed procedures and controls, updating Update QMS as appropriate, communicating to the business, central technical and sites effectively Inbound Supply Chain compliance and Set Up - Understand and apply relevant standards, codes of practice and ensure all legal requirements are achieved and maintained to ensure effective controls for assuring supply chain integrity and security. Including administration of relevant set up information for service suppliers and product controls through risk assessment. Communicating integrity controls for sites receiving materials through inbound logistics operation. Audit - To establish and maintain a process of internal auditing against the QMS to ensure compliance, actions are communicated and closed out within agreed timescales to drive standards and compliance. To establish or review and amend procedures as required by accreditations held, new business initiatives or new internal systems. Management and support - Proactively participate in the Senior team, provide practical support across the different functional teams in inbound logistics, to drive to promote a Quality Assurance culture in the business Site and central Interaction.Proactively engage with central functions and all sites receiving materials through BIL, communicating and aligning Inbound Logistics compliance controls. Communication - To positively communicate technical issues and horizon scan future concerns. To collate information relating to food issues / scares and similar events and communicate to Technical Management Team and other key business interfaces as required. Communication with GC Central technical function, Site Technical teams and Inbound Logistics SLT Health and Safety - To operate in a safe working manner and support the site/business on continuous improvement relating to health, safety and the environment. Knowledge, Skills and Experience Service Supplier Management Greencore site visits System management and auditing skills Influencing skills Presentation skills Customs and SPS controls for importing goods 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
Greencore, formed after the January 2026 merger with Bakkavor, seeks an Inbound Supply Chain Compliance Manager in the UK. The role manages inbound compliance across materials, packaging, and QA systems, interfacing with sites, suppliers and authorities to uphold standards and legal requirements. You will drive audit readiness, maintain QMS documentation, and lead cross-functional teams to ensure supply chain integrity and safety across multiple sites.
Oct 08, 2026
Full time
Greencore, formed after the January 2026 merger with Bakkavor, seeks an Inbound Supply Chain Compliance Manager in the UK. The role manages inbound compliance across materials, packaging, and QA systems, interfacing with sites, suppliers and authorities to uphold standards and legal requirements. You will drive audit readiness, maintain QMS documentation, and lead cross-functional teams to ensure supply chain integrity and safety across multiple sites.
