Indirect Procurement - Buyer

Join Musgrave: Where Innovation Meets Heritage, and People Drive Change

Musgrave is one of Europe's most successful family owned businesses, with a rich 150 year legacy in food and brand innovation. We're proud to serve communities across Ireland and Spain, feeding one in three people every day through 18 iconic brands like SuperValu, Centra, Mace, Frank and Honest, and Musgrave MarketPlace. By supporting thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses, we make a positive impact on the communities they serve. We're committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland, and we're looking for dynamic, forward thinking individuals to join us on this journey.

As we continue our journey toward becoming Ireland's most trusted and sustainable business, we have an exciting opportunity for a successful candidate to join our team as an Indirect Procurement Buyer.

We are now inviting applications for the role of Buyer in our Musgrave Indirect Procurement Team in Airport Road. Reporting to the Indirect Procurement Manager, this role will drive reductions in Musgrave indirect procurement costs through central procurement, supplier negotiation and consolidation. To increase controls and compliance across indirect spend through formal contracting, product cataloguing and solution challenging. Drive year over year cost savings and protect the business when introducing new suppliers and solutions.

Scope of Indirect Procurement Spend

• Professional Services - consultancy, legal consultancy, contractors
• HR Services - recruitment, training, agency resource, pensions, employee benefits
• Financial Services - audit, banking, payroll bureau, finance leases, grants
• Events, travel events, sponsorship, staff functions, travel
• Business Support - postage, office supplies, etc.

What you'll be doing Planning, Analysis & Control

• Devise own and drive the associated procurement category strategies, becoming an expert in the market dynamics of the Business Services Category
• Analyse areas of spend as per the indirect procurement contracts database to identify sourcing initiatives to pursue
• Review spend analysis reports to target spend that could be consolidated across the Musgrave business, leveraging One Musgrave principles
• Review requisitions and purchase orders to ensure adherence with group indirect procurement policy
• Input into the preparation of annual budgets and provision of data to the finance teams across the business

Negotiation and Contracting

Agree requirements with budget holders.

Ensure that spend is committed having only gone through the indirect procurement process, ensure no renegade spend.

Manage the end to end tendering process for identified areas of spend.

Take the lead in negotiation with suppliers. Work with budget holders to be clear on what the best negotiation tactics are.

Work closely with our preferred packaging supplier to assess the market and also achieve the best commercial outcomes.

Assist budget holders with the contracting process, liaise with legal, DPO, SecOps as necessary to ensure a good quality contract is created.

Central Procurement

Challenge all new supplier set up requests, can we rationalise the supply base.

Challenge non catalogue requests, redirect spend to preferred suppliers, seek validation by requesting proposals to back up spend and make judgement calls on what should be allowed to progress.

Provide an excellent service to the budget holders as per agreed SLA's, liaising on an ongoing basis.

Build and maintain relationships and partnerships with key indirect suppliers.

Managing and aligning the requirements of stakeholders to establish a consistent way of working in all operating units.

Leverage internal purchasing systems, agreeing catalogue goods and services with the business and suppliers and configuring same.

Improve and develop all procurement processes and operational management requirements such as contracting reports, risk exposure databases.

Tracking adherence of actual pricing to negotiated pricing and associated variance analysis.

Supplier management of one key supplier to the indirect procurement team.

Identify and develop AI powered solutions for your portfolio that can be extended to the team.

Ad hoc group projects.

Managing and engaging budget owners.

Direct or indirect procurement negotiation experience.

Why Musgrave

• Career development: With a commitment to your personal and professional growth, Musgrave offers numerous opportunities for advancement and learning.
• Collaborative environment: Work alongside a passionate team, where your contributions will make a significant impact.
• Innovation focus: Be part of a company that values forward thinking solutions.
• Community focus: Be part of a company that truly values its communities and strives to make a positive impact.
• Legacy: Join a company with a long standing commitment to community and innovation.

Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.

Musgrave operates a Work Smart hybrid working model where you can alternate your time between connecting and collaborating in the business and working remotely. Occasional business travel to other locations will also be required.