Procurement Manager

The Role:

As our Procurement Manager, you'll help shape the partnerships and sourcing strategies that keep Little Moons moving, growing and delighting customers. You'll play a central role in building a resilient, sustainable and future-focused supply base, ensuring we have the right ingredients, suppliers and solutions in place to support our ambitions.

You'll bring the outside world in, keeping a close eye on market trends, supplier opportunities and emerging risks, then turning those insights into smart commercial decisions. Whether it's developing category strategies, uncovering new opportunities, strengthening supplier relationships or finding better ways of doing things, you'll be a driving force behind how we source, partner and grow.

Collaboration is a big part of life at Little Moons, so you'll work closely with teams across the business to understand what's needed today while helping us prepare for what's next. You'll build strong, trusted relationships internally and externally, bringing people together to solve challenges, spark innovation and create value beyond cost.

We're looking for someone who enjoys thinking strategically but isn't afraid to roll their sleeves up when needed. Someone who combines commercial savvy with curiosity, loves building great partnerships and gets excited about continuous improvement. You'll be empowered to challenge the status quo, explore new ideas and help shape the future of procurement as we continue on our growth journey.

As a leader within the team, you'll create an environment where people can do their best work, supporting development, sharing expertise and helping build a high-performing procurement function that's ready for what's next.

If you're energised by building meaningful supplier partnerships, influencing business decisions and making a real impact in a fast-paced, ambitious and people-first environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

Procurement Strategy & Leadership

• Deliver the Procurement Strategy in line with business objectives.

• Translate company growth plans into effective sourcing and supplier strategies.

• Support the Head of SC & P to build and maintain a multi-year procurement roadmap.

• Drive adherence to procurement governance, policies and best practices.

• Drive continuous improvement across procurement processes, systems and ways of working.

• Act as the procurement lead for key business initiatives and transformational projects.

Team Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead, coach and develop the procurement team to create a high-performing function.

• Establish clear objectives, development plans and succession planning.

• Promote a culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.

• Ensure procurement capability evolves in line with business growth requirements.

• Act as a mentor and escalation point for complex commercial and supplier issues.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Develop partnerships with key suppliers and manufacturing partners.

• Establish supplier segmentation and relationship management frameworks.

• Identify opportunities for joint innovation, cost optimisation and sustainability improvements.

• Drive supplier performance through robust governance and KPI management.

Commercial Leadership

• Deliver procurement savings, cost avoidance and value creation targets.

• With the Head of SC & P own procurement budget performance and savings forecasting.

• Define commercial negotiation strategies for key spend areas.

• Challenge existing cost structures and identify opportunities to improve margin.

• Ensure appropriate contractual protection and commercial governance is in place.

Supply Risk & Business Continuity

• Own the procurement risk management framework.

• Ensure robust mitigation plans exist across strategic suppliers, ingredients and packaging.

• Monitor market volatility, geopolitical developments and supply chain risks.

• Lead procurement's response to significant supply disruptions.

• Develop long-term resilience strategies to support business continuity.

Innovation & Growth

• Create supplier-enabled innovation pipelines to support future growth.

• Support expansion into new products, channels and markets through effective sourcing strategies.

• Identify and introduce new suppliers, technologies and capabilities.

• Ensure procurement is engaged early in the innovation process to maximise value creation.

Sustainability & Responsible Sourcing

• Lead delivery of responsible sourcing and supply chain sustainability objectives.

• Drive supplier engagement and alignment against the Little Moons Positive Sourcing standard

• Support carbon reduction, packaging sustainability and responsible sourcing initiatives.

• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and reporting requirements

Essential Requirements:

• Strong experience in procurement management within food manufacturing

• Experience leading procurement teams and developing people

• Proven track record of delivering strategic sourcing programmes and significant commercial value

• Strong supplier relationship management and negotiation expertise

• Experience building category strategies and procurement roadmaps

• Strong understanding of supply chain risk management

• Excellent stakeholder influencing skills, including senior leadership engagement

It's a Bonus If You Have:

• Experience with chilled or frozen categories

• Knowledge of sustainability and responsible sourcing practices

• A professional procurement qualification (e.g. CIPS)

Some of the benefits of working here include:

Little Moons is a fast-growing and dynamic business, the nature of which means roles and responsibilities can change and grow quickly and at scale. We never stand still for long, and for the right person this represents an opportunity to grow and evolve your role and responsibilities with us and to develop your career at pace.

We will provide you with as much support, guidance, and training as you need, and offer the below benefits to boost:

• Medicash, Private Health Scheme & Life Insurance ‍⚕️ 

• Enhanced Baby Leave - new parents will be entitled to sixteen weeks off on full pay during the child’s first year of life (available to people who have worked for Little Moons for one year at Week 26 of pregnancy)  

• We understand that mental health matters. We partner with Health Assured to provide remote emotional support to team members  

• Discretionary annual bonus based on company performance  

• Paid sick leave  

• Respect, trust, and honesty. Personal and professional maturity is important to us, and we keep each other honest ❤️ 

• Your holidays – We believe in finding your work-life alignment and encourage all staff to use their 25 days, plus public holidays ☀️ 

• Additional days off with long service  

• Salary Extra - Discounts and Vouchers

• Your Birthday off  

• Team volunteer days  

• Cycle to work scheme 

To be engaged, you must feel included and valued, so we have built, and nurtured, a culture where inclusiveness is not a buzzword, but a way of being.

Our approach to diversity is simple, it’s about embracing everyone, and everyone is welcome at Little Moons.   We are committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation or expression.   We are diverse in age, race, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective. Our diversity fuels our innovation, brings diversity of thought, and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve.

All applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.