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Head of Purchasing Job - Turks & Caicos

Very excitingly, a returning client of ours is looking for a Head of Purchasing to join their growing team out in Turks & Caicos. This is a wonderful chance to work in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, for a fast-growing supermarket brand. This role is to oversee the activities of the Food Service Purchasing Team, and it's a brand new role.  For a thorough and detailed job description, please get in touch. 

Key Duties (we can give you the full list):

  • Develop and maintain the purchasing policies and procedures, ensuring our client delivers margin, improves on price perception, and offers a market leading assortment.
  • Develop the client's buying practices to improve availability whilst minimising working capital and unnecessary waste. 
  • Maintain awareness of market trends in the food service industry, understanding forthcoming customer initiatives and monitoring what local competitors are doing. 
  • Conduct research to ascertain the best products and suppliers in terms of best value and quality.
  • Negotiate with international vendors on pricing, quantities, ensuring that the terms of the agreement in the contract includes consistent supply. 
  • Monitor overall stock levels, sales growth, profitability and taking appropriate action to improve performance.
  • Determining the best details for the best products and sourcing them from the manufacturers as first priority to the distributors. 

You:

  • Ideally come from a Culinary background.
  • Love food and food service.
  • Have experience in procurement, purchasing or buying. 
  • Will have worked in either the USA or Caribbean markets. 
  • Have worked in this industry for at least ten years.
  • Understand financials, P&Ls, and have good accounting skills.
  • Work well in teams, being an efficient and highly competent communicator. 

Salary: Negotiable, but around $100k GPA. This is dependent on experience. 

Accommodation: Not provided, but the client will help you find some, and there is a relocation allowance.

Start: ASAP, but depends on visa, as can take 3 months or so. You need to ensure that you have all childhood vaccinations, and proof of that for the visa (we can give you the list). 

Responsible Consultant: Diana (diana@greycoatlumleys.co.uk) and Fred (fred@greycoatlumleys.co.uk)