About Creed:
At Creed Foodservice, we believe a great workplace starts with great people. Our teams are at the heart of everything we do, bringing passion and expertise to deliver top-quality food products to chefs and caterers across the UK. As part of the Country Range Group, we’ve been making a difference in the food industry since 1972.
With distribution centres in Cheltenham, Ilkeston, and High Wycombe, we ensure reliable service nationwide. We’re proud to be a Living Wage accredited employer and were recognised as one of the Top 75 Best Companies to Work For in 2023. If you’re looking for a workplace that values its people and offers real opportunities to grow, Creed is the place to be!
Role details:
As a Buying Executive, you will play a key role in supporting the Trading Team to drive performance across our national and regional foodservice divisions.
This dynamic position involves managing supplier relationships, coordinating product sourcing and category reviews, tracking promotions and rebates, and maintaining accurate commercial and product data.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring buying processes run smoothly and efficiently, contributing directly to revenue, margin, and income targets. With a focus on data accuracy, market insight, and cross-functional collaboration, you’ll help deliver value to the business while supporting continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
Some responsibilities of the role include:
- Demonstrate a positive, customer-focused, and professional approach.
- Contribute to a diverse, inclusive, solutions-oriented, and customer service focussed culture.
- Share ideas and develop new ways of working to improve company performance and employee engagement.
- Demonstrate professionalism and deliver an awesome customer experience to both internal and external customers.
- To ensure that effective and efficient operations within the buying team deliver overall business financial revenue, margin and income targets.
- All administration related to new suppliers and new products, including management of forms.
- Own and manage the sample process, this includes the management of supplier, customer and Creed samples for presentation and category reviews.
- Investigate and resolve invoice queries promptly, ensuring billing accuracy.
- Escalate aged debt with suppliers where required.
- Source new products & de-list products in line with business requirements.
- Liaise between suppliers and internal departments to capture information including supplier imagery, marketing information, promotional collateral and supplier pricing, data, accreditation and technical information.
- Competitor analysis and market updates across product, price, promotion and availability.
It is essential that you have the following:
- Strong I.T and administration skills, numeracy, and a good level of English.
- Experience using Power BI (or similar), Office 365, Microsoft Teams & SharePoint.
- Customer service focus, excellent communication, interpersonal, relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
- An action-oriented individual, who is solutions focused, can manage multiple priorities, and deliver results on time and in full.
- A good team player, with attention to detail and good problem-solving skills that follows processes in place and prioritises business improvement.
- Experience working in an administrative role delivering continuous improvement, data and insight.
- Highly self-motivated to achieve agreed goals, able to work efficiently and independently.
- An organised and methodical approach to work and prioritisation that ensures the achievement of deadlines.
- Experience working with both internal and external stakeholders of all levels.
- Administrative experience working as part of a team within an office environment.
- Willingness to Travel and the flexibility to accommodate planned overnight stays for attendance at events, with reasonable notice provided.
- Experience collating, tracking, managing, and reporting on team revenue targets accurately.
What you get in return:
- Competitive salary.
- Training and development and career progression opportunities.
- Recognition for doing a great job and going the extra mile from customers, your department and the rest of the business.
- Respect and support from your team, supervisors and managers.
- 33 Days of annual leave per year.
- Life insurance for 2 times your annual salary.
- Employee discount on purchases and regular special offers for staff.
- Access to an online discount portal, providing discounts for gyms, the cinema, supermarkets, high street retailers, cashback for changing your electricity supplier and much more helping you to save money on purchases that you would ordinarily make.
- Employee assistance programme that offers confidential support and advice which includes free access to legal advice, wellness programmes and much more.
- Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme.
Creed also offer employees the opportunity to join our Savings Scheme, join the Staff Lottery to support our selected charities and be in with the chance of winning £250 each month, an additional day off each year which you can use to help a charitable cause of your choice and much more. We are also a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer
If you think you have what it takes, please click 'Apply Now' below to send your C.V for consideration.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age, as outlined in our equal opportunities policy.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to £28,560.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
