Procurement Executive

A fantastic Procurement Executive opportunity to join our Global Procurement team to support our Food category. This is a great role that will support your growth into a procurement career.
A bit about us...
Here at Costa Coffee, our vision is to inspire the world to love great coffee. We’re all about passion, energy and teamwork to serve uplifting moments to coffee fans globally. From our humble beginnings in 1971, we’re now the UK’s most loved coffee Brand. With the help of our Partners and the Coca Cola system our growth ambitions have no limits. Along with our much-loved Stores, we now have propositions spanning Ready-to-Drink, Costa Express, FMCG and our leading B2B networks. Costa are pioneering the future of the coffee industry.
A bit about the role...
Reporting to the Senior Procurement Manager – Food, you will support the food category, share best practice and teach ways of working – process and systems.

Key Responsibilities:
Supplier Management

• Manage onboarding of new suppliers, running due diligence checks & uploading into Costa’s ERP platform(s)
• Act as an interface between certain suppliers and relevant stakeholders on purchasing processes and activities
• Collate key MI reporting for supplier performance and working with the wider Global Procurement Team to identify areas of improvement and implement where needed

Procurement

• Responsible for SKU optimisation and tail rationalisation recommendations across the food portfolio, working closely with the Marketing Hub on all recommendations
• You will track and provide relevant commodity price movement data to enable clear decision making to take place within the Global Procurement team
• Assist Procurement Managers in tender / benchmarking processes inclusive of RFI, RFP & RFQ preparation and supplier response analysis
• Support negotiations with suppliers and communicating price changes to all teams

Projects

• Manage selected procurement projects with the support of the wider Global Procurement Team
• Support the Food Procurement Managers with GPR submissions and gating requirements
• Act as a conduit between the Food Procurement Team and Marketing Hub ensuring alignment on key project activities in line with the Food Strategy

Administration & Contracts

• General administration support for the Food Procurement Team, focusing on best practices, knowledge management and KPI reporting
• Responsible for drafting contracts, ensuring legal compliance, and managing maintenance of contracts to include extensions and variations
• Own audit requirements and collations for audit
• Supporting the Food team with RFA submissions and rebate invoicing where necessary
• Ensure purchase orders are accurately placed
• Custodian of the Commodity tracker, tracking inflation/deflation across core commodities
• Maintain and update the Price Change tracker and communicate across all stakeholders
• Maintenance of the Contract Management and Supplier Database

A bit about you…
We want all of our Team Members to thrive and to grow here at Costa, this is why our values are so important to us, Passion, Courage, Trust, Warmth. Along with an ability to work with diverse teams we would look for you to bring the following to this role:

• Experience in building effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrable procurement administration experience
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Analytical and numerically astute with strong demonstrable problem-solving abilities
• Exceptional time management skills and ability to prioritise tasks and achieve set targets
• Ability to challenge, suggest improvements and influence outcomes
• Keen attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience with an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system would be beneficial
• Experience working with stakeholders in customer focused and decentralised organisations is preferable

What we can offer...
Costa are on a growth journey like no other, more countries, more propositions, more opportunities for you to develop your career and work with some great teams. In addition, you’ll benefit from

• BUPA Healthcare and Babylon GP
• Costa Pension Scheme
• Bonus Scheme
• 50% staff discount in our equity stores, 25% staff discount in franchise stores
• 25 days Holidays
• Share Incentive Plan (following six months’ service)

Location: Remote
Costa is made up of true experts, masters of their craft stretching their limits to what’s possible. It’s why we work so well remotely. We trust our teams and embrace technology to help us collaborate. And if needed, we have offices all over the world for those important connection points. Our remote working allows you to balance your work and personal life, while retaining Costa’s much-loved warmth and passion.