Purchasing Manager £45-60k Oxfordshire

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative and quality driven food manufacturer who supply a wide range of premium products primarily within the baking and ingredients categories. You will be working with major brands as well as retailer own label products across a hugely diverse product range incorporating several hundred SKUs. As the company’s Purchasing Manager your role will be extremely broad and cover a diverse range of raw material and packaging. You will provide supporting for the NPD department when sourcing new products / suppliers and also be responsible for developing longer term relationships with a group of core suppliers. This opportunity is working within an expanding privately owned business and as such you will also have involvement where appropriate with other departments across the business, as such a hands on “role your sleeves up” approach will be far more effective than a very corporate ivory towers mentality. Whilst you may be CIPS qualified this is by no means an essential requirement most importantly we are seeking a candidate who is able to work on their own initiative to deliver the required cost reductions with out any adverse effects to quality or service. As a driven purchasing professional you will be able to demonstrate that you possess a strong commercial acumen. As the head of our procurement department strong and effective negotiation skills are a must...

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HR Business Partner £40-45k + Car Allowance + Benefits Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

We require a high calibre Human Resources professional to join a market leading international business with operations in the UK, Continental Europe and North America focused on providing customers with innovative and sustainable solutions to their requirements.  Within Europe they employ more than 3,500 people and are one of the leaders in their growing market providing a range of products and services to both the public and private sectors. In order to facility our growth strategy we are now seeking to appoint an CIPD Qualified Human Resources professional as HR Manager with responsibility for the Central Head office functions as well as the operations in London and the South East.  Within this role you will be working closely with the UK Board and assisting a projects central to achieving profitable growth, as such you will need to be able to demonstrate the intellectual capacity and mental agility required to provide HR Business support at this level of seniority.  Further more you will have to combine this strategic level with the personal presence and gravitas to convey this central message through out the business and crucially, through to front line operations. You will already have gained your CIPD accreditation and ideally posses a related business degree.  In your HR career to date you will have provided business support in at least one of the following environments; industrial, manufacturing or public...

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