Procurement Manager (Direct Materials)

ASR Group is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, Canada and Mexico. In the European Union, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England, Portugal.  ASR Group also owns and operates mills in Mexico and Belize.  The company’s brand portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle’s® and Sidul®.

What will you be doing?

We are seeking a highly skilled and Global Savvy Procurement Manager who will be responsible for the management of purchasing activities in Direct Materials and MRO for Tate & Lyle Sugars (ASR Europe). As part of your role, you will play an integral part in our European business decision making, utilising your outstanding cross functional relationships.

This is a Team Management position where you will encourage accountability within the procurement team for day-to-day performance, fostering a culture of urgency to enhance customer service and commercial outcomes, while also prioritising training and development opportunities to support the team’s growth and expertise.

Reporting into our Senior Director of Supply Chain, you have a dotted line with Materials Management Team with responsibility to manage all spend for our European Business.

As our Procurement Manager you will -

• Build and maintain collaborative cross functional relationships between the Procurement team and its internal customers.
• Develop and implement an effective supplier relationship management program to drive improvements in supplier performances and added-value contributions.
• Develop and present market-competitive category management strategies covering the key sub-categories and commodity groups.
• Support the delivery of short, medium, and long term corporate and regional objectives at an asset level.
• Develop Procurement’s core processes, standard operating procedures and category management strategies.
• Drive commercial input with the ability to take and execute market opportunities.
• Responsible for maintaining and accountability of KPI’s.
• Expert in contract negotiations, pricing analysis and markets forecasting.
• Prepare and present complex information to C-Suite Level Executives.

This role is based at our Thames Refinery in East London, minimum 4 days a week onsite.

What are we looking for?

• Extensive Procurement Management experience.
• Ideally FMCG / fast paced production environment
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and orientation.
• Strong Commercial Acumen, negotiation & influencing skills.
• Proactively resolves quality and commercial issues with vendor and internal customers.
• International awareness, knowledge and understanding of people and markets.
• Continuous Improvement mindset
• Experienced with Purchasing, Contract Law, Lean, Benchmarking, Financial Analysis
• SAP experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced Excel and IT skills.

Training – We will support you by providing the tools to identify and pursue your own personal development plan, having dedicated time to discuss performance, development, and career progression. Full training will be provided whether that is learning on the job, community volunteering experiences, mentoring, secondments or formal learning like apprenticeship and leadership programmes. We want you to achieve your full potential!

What can Tate & Lyle offer you?

Our Reward philosophy at ASR Group is through merit-based pay which enables us to recognize your personal contribution and encourages your development and advancement. We are proud of the suite of benefits we offer and there is more to share with you as you go through our recruitment process!

• 26 days annual holiday plus bank holidays
• 9.2% Company Contributed Pension Scheme (when you contribute a minimum of 3%)
• 3 Volunteering/ Charity Days per year
• Life Assurance Scheme and Income protection scheme
• Discretionary Annual Bonus
• Family Friendly Policies
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme

At Tate & Lyle Sugars, our goal is to be the most admired sweetener Company.

Service Excellence- Be the industry's Gold Standard by a relentless focus on reliability, providing products with superior quality and excellent customer services.  Efficiency and Sustainability-  Eliminate inefficiency to be a sustainable, low cost producer and to generate fuel for reinvestment. Value-Add: create strategic advantage and enhanced profitability through value-added products and services. The foundation of our values is Talent and Culture as we aim to build, retain and motivate a winning team.