Food Safety and Quality Technical Specialist
My client, a highly successful Irish food manufacturer is seeking a Food Safety and Quality Technical Specialist to provide administrative support at each phase of the supply chain from source to consumer. This is an amazing opportunity to join a highly progressive employer that values its employees. Dublin based.
Package
- Generous salary doe
- Bonus
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Staff discount
- Career progression opportunities
Responsibilities of this Food Safety and Quality Technical Specialist include:
- Support implementation and maintenance of Food Safety & Quality Management systems and associated procedures.
- Ensure products meet specifications through internal monitoring and assessments.
- Manage product specifications for raw materials, finished products, and processes.
- Optimize Product Quality Inspection points to enhance quality awareness and consistency.
- Conduct daily, weekly, and monthly QC checks to maintain FS&Q Standards.
- Perform HACCP/CCP Verification checks and product inspections.
- Monitor cleaning and environmental hygiene.
- Conduct internal audits (e.g., hygiene, glass) and coordinate customer complaints investigation.
- Report non-conformances and implement corrective actions.
- Review and maintain quality documents for compliance.
- Ensure full product traceability throughout the process.
- Attend meetings as requested and contribute positively.
- Complete project work to improve Food Safety and Quality initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with ISO and FSSC 22000 standards and customer requirements.
Requirements for this Food Safety and Quality Technical Specialist include:
- Science/ Food Science Qualification is essential.
- Minimum 1 year of experience in food manufacturing is desirable.
- Computer literate.
- Good communication and problem solving skills.
Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Assistant Food Buyer
My client, one of Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses is seeking a commercial and passionate Assistant Food Buyer to join their highly reputable business in Belfast. The successful candidate will implement the retail business development plans incorporating range, price, promotion, and supply chain across the company’s well-established brands.
Package:
- Salary £26-30k
- Bonus
- Pension
- Agile Working
- Career Progression opportunities
Responsibilities of this Assistant Food Buyer job:
- Take ownership for the sales, margin and cash profit of a given product area to an allocated budget with the support of the Senior Buyer.
- Work with category planning team to conduct range reviews, decide on optimum ranges for the business and planograms for C&C’s.
- Review competitor price positioning, assess current pricing and margin performance and maximise retailer margins and competitive position within the market.
- Plan events and promotions as per event calendar and brief, communicate to suppliers and review proposals, brief suppliers on promotional requirements, review proposals and negotiate improvements to offers.
- Plan and co-ordinate a range of seasonal products to maximise sales and margins.
- Work with the supply chain team and the supplier base to ensure product availability to customers.
Experience required for this Assistant Trading Manager job:
- 2 years` experience working within a Trading/ Buying environment
- Strong commercial acumen with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Very high level of accuracy with demonstrable right first-time ethos
- Ability to understand how actions taken across the business affect sales and margin performance of the category
- Excellent attention to detail; passionate about getting all projects right first time.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Ability to prioritise workload and differentiate between urgent and important tasks
- Excellent Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) & Outlook skills
- 3rd level business related degree
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Senior Grocery Buyer
My client, a market leading food retailer, is seeking a Senior Grocery Buyer to join their ambitious team in South Dublin. You will be given the responsibility to develop and manage product categories through detailed market and consumer behaviour analysis. This is an amazing opportunity to join this rapidly growing retail client.
Package
- Salary €65k-85k DOE
- Company car
- Agile working
- Flexible working hours
- Pension
- Health insurance
- 25 days annual leave
- Career progression opportunities
Responsibilities for this Senior Grocery Buyer job include:
- Completing regular competitor and assortment analysis and product group comparisons.
- Tasting and conducting quality checks in consultation with the Quality Assurance department.
- Continuously sourcing new suppliers, promoting product innovation, and ensuring a top-quality offering at the lowest possible price for our customers.
- Negotiating and building relationships with national and international suppliers.
- Working in collaboration with other related departments such as Social Media, Marketing and Promotional Planning to help manage and drive our product categories.
- Setting and reviewing retail prices on a regular basis.
- Managing supplier contracts.
Requirements for this Senior Grocery Buyer job include:
- Fluent German is an advantage.
- Third-level degree is essential.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Confident, motivated and can work independently.
- Excellent analytical and negotiation skills.
- Driving licence is essential.
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call Aoife McCaul 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
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Senior Food Buyer
My client, a leading Irish convenience retailer is seeking a confident Senior Food Buyer to take a hands-on approach to support the Commercial team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a group that is built on a distinct culture which favours the needs of its employees. This role is based in Park West, Dublin.
Package
- Salary €65-70k doe
- Hybrid working
- Bonus
- Healthcare
- Generous annual leave
Responsibilities of this Senior Food Buyer job include:
- Full category management accountability for your product area including sales, margin, budget management and stockholding.
- Building strong collaborative relationships with both our existing and potential supply base along with key departments across the company.
- Negotiate relevant contracts demonstrating good commercial practices in the process.
- Source new and innovative, high quality product development and concept opportunities and bring them through from initiation to execution.
- Remain up to date with market and industry trends by completing competitor analysis to ensure our offer is competitive.
- Plan and develop range plans for both core and seasonal buys.
- Setting and reviewing prices to ensure we are competitive.
- Monitor and report on sales performance to senior management.
- Liaise with the supply chain team and supply base to ensure full product availability across our range.
Experience required for this Senior Food Buyer job include:
- 3+ years in buying or category management with demonstrably strong negotiation skills essential.
- Microsoft Office intermediate to advanced level in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Power BI or equivalent beneficial.
- SAP experience.
- Experience within a convenience FMCG retail environment also advantageous.
- A dynamic individual who adapts well to change and can thrive in a rapidly growing organisation that continues to evolve.
- Project management skills.
- Demonstrate strong analytical capability to interpret and challenge data and to interrogate financial systems.
- Has strong commercial acumen and a focus on delivering value to the business.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, and ability to engage and develop relationships with individuals at all levels of the organisation.
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDBUY
Assistant Food Buyer
My client, one of Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses is seeking a commercial and passionate Assistant Food Buyer to join their highly reputable business in Belfast. The successful candidate will implement the retail business development plans incorporating range, price, promotion, and supply chain across the company’s well-established brands.
Package:
- Salary £26-30k
- Bonus
- Pension
- Agile Working
- Career Progression opportunities
Responsibilities of this Assistant Food Buyer job:
- Take ownership for the sales, margin and cash profit of a given product area to an allocated budget with the support of the Senior Buyer.
- Work with category planning team to conduct range reviews, decide on optimum ranges for the business and planograms for C&C’s.
- Review competitor price positioning, assess current pricing and margin performance and maximise retailer margins and competitive position within the market.
- Plan events and promotions as per event calendar and brief, communicate to suppliers and review proposals, brief suppliers on promotional requirements, review proposals and negotiate improvements to offers.
- Plan and co-ordinate a range of seasonal products to maximise sales and margins.
- Work with the supply chain team and the supplier base to ensure product availability to customers.
Experience required for this Assistant Trading Manager job:
- 2 years` experience working within a Trading/ Buying environment
- Strong commercial acumen with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Very high level of accuracy with demonstrable right first-time ethos
- Ability to understand how actions taken across the business affect sales and margin performance of the category
- Excellent attention to detail; passionate about getting all projects right first time.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Ability to prioritise workload and differentiate between urgent and important tasks
- Excellent Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) & Outlook skills
- 3rd level business related degree
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDBUY
Senior Buyer – Foodservice
My client, one of Europe’s market leading food clients is seeking an experienced Senior Buyer to join their team in Elche, Spain. Reporting directly to the Commercial Director, the successful candidate will optimise the sales, profit, and market share for the company. This role is ideally suited to someone with a strong foodservice buying background who would like to learn in a new, complex, and fast-moving industry. Full Spanish and English proficiency are essential for this role.
Package
- Salary – very competitive doe
- Bonus
- Pension
- Agile working
Responsibilities of this job include:
- Devise and implement an appropriate trading strategy for the category using a robust category planning process to achieve sustainable long-term revenue, margin, quality, and market share growth targets in line with the overall business strategy.
- Work with the commercial buyers, logistic team, and wholesale team to ensure excellent communication, implementation and continued compliance to category and range plans in each of the 19 cash and carries.
- Manage the promotional activity for the category to ensure that it is in line with the category strategy, better offer better buying promotional guidelines, brand positions, delivering optimum profit return.
- Manage, according to the commercial price policy, all pricing activity including cost negotiations, discounts, bonuses, rebates, special offers and promotional activity support.
- Monitoring the quality of all goods procured in accordance with safety and quality standards and taking appropriate steps to avoid quality issues and reduce business risk.
- Develop excellent long term supplier relations through the implementation of Joint Business Planning and through the development of category partners for each category.
- Develop Own Brand products from concept through to commercial launch in conjunction with cross-functional teams.
- Develop a people plan to ensure we have the skills and experience in the commercial team to deliver the Foodservice growth plan.
Requirements for this job include:
- Business Degree or equivalent.
- Proficiency in the Spanish language at business level.
- At least 5 years’ experience of Food Service Sector within the Spanish wholesale and foodservice industries.
- Sound category management experience and a demonstrable ability to identify consumer trends and insights.
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to interpret a P&L.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to lead, motivate and develop a team of people.
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call Aoife McCaul 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDSPEC
Senior Grocery Buyer
My client, a market leading food retailer, is seeking a Senior Grocery Buyer to join their ambitious team in South Dublin. You will be given the responsibility to develop and manage product categories through detailed market and consumer behaviour analysis. This is an amazing opportunity to join this rapidly growing retail client.
Package
- Salary €65k-85k DOE
- Company car
- Agile working
- Flexible working hours
- Pension
- Health insurance
- 25 days annual leave
- Career progression opportunities
Responsibilities for this Senior Grocery Buyer job include:
- Completing regular competitor and assortment analysis and product group comparisons.
- Tasting and conducting quality checks in consultation with the Quality Assurance department.
- Continuously sourcing new suppliers, promoting product innovation, and ensuring a top-quality offering at the lowest possible price for our customers.
- Negotiating and building relationships with national and international suppliers.
- Working in collaboration with other related departments such as Social Media, Marketing and Promotional Planning to help manage and drive our product categories.
- Setting and reviewing retail prices on a regular basis.
- Managing supplier contracts.
Requirements for this Senior Grocery Buyer job include:
- Fluent German is an advantage.
- Third-level degree is essential.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Confident, motivated and can work independently.
- Excellent analytical and negotiation skills.
- Driving licence is essential.
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call Aoife McCaul 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDBUY
Senior Food Buyer
My client, a leading Irish convenience retailer is seeking a confident Senior Food Buyer to take a hands-on approach to support the Commercial team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a group that is built on a distinct culture which favours the needs of its employees. This role is based in Park West, Dublin.
Package
- Salary €65-70k doe
- Hybrid working
- Bonus
- Healthcare
- Generous annual leave
Responsibilities of this Senior Food Buyer job include:
- Full category management accountability for your product area including sales, margin, budget management and stockholding.
- Building strong collaborative relationships with both our existing and potential supply base along with key departments across the company.
- Negotiate relevant contracts demonstrating good commercial practices in the process.
- Source new and innovative, high quality product development and concept opportunities and bring them through from initiation to execution.
- Remain up to date with market and industry trends by completing competitor analysis to ensure our offer is competitive.
- Plan and develop range plans for both core and seasonal buys.
- Setting and reviewing prices to ensure we are competitive.
- Monitor and report on sales performance to senior management.
- Liaise with the supply chain team and supply base to ensure full product availability across our range.
Experience required for this Senior Food Buyer job include:
- 3+ years in buying or category management with demonstrably strong negotiation skills essential.
- Microsoft Office intermediate to advanced level in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Power BI or equivalent beneficial.
- SAP experience.
- Experience within a convenience FMCG retail environment also advantageous.
- A dynamic individual who adapts well to change and can thrive in a rapidly growing organisation that continues to evolve.
- Project management skills.
- Demonstrate strong analytical capability to interpret and challenge data and to interrogate financial systems.
- Has strong commercial acumen and a focus on delivering value to the business.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, and ability to engage and develop relationships with individuals at all levels of the organisation.
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDBUY
Senior Buyer – Foodservice
My client, one of Europe’s market leading food clients is seeking an experienced Senior Buyer to join their team in Elche, Spain. Reporting directly to the Commercial Director, the successful candidate will optimise the sales, profit, and market share for the company. This role is ideally suited to someone with a strong foodservice buying background who would like to learn in a new, complex, and fast-moving industry. Full Spanish and English proficiency are essential for this role.
Package
- Salary – very competitive doe
- Bonus
- Pension
- Agile working
Responsibilities of this job include:
- Devise and implement an appropriate trading strategy for the category using a robust category planning process to achieve sustainable long-term revenue, margin, quality, and market share growth targets in line with the overall business strategy.
- Work with the commercial buyers, logistic team, and wholesale team to ensure excellent communication, implementation and continued compliance to category and range plans in each of the 19 cash and carries.
- Manage the promotional activity for the category to ensure that it is in line with the category strategy, better offer better buying promotional guidelines, brand positions, delivering optimum profit return.
- Manage, according to the commercial price policy, all pricing activity including cost negotiations, discounts, bonuses, rebates, special offers and promotional activity support.
- Monitoring the quality of all goods procured in accordance with safety and quality standards and taking appropriate steps to avoid quality issues and reduce business risk.
- Develop excellent long term supplier relations through the implementation of Joint Business Planning and through the development of category partners for each category.
- Develop Own Brand products from concept through to commercial launch in conjunction with cross-functional teams.
- Develop a people plan to ensure we have the skills and experience in the commercial team to deliver the Foodservice growth plan.
Requirements for this job include:
- Business Degree or equivalent.
- Proficiency in the Spanish language at business level.
- At least 5 years’ experience of Food Service Sector within the Spanish wholesale and foodservice industries.
- Sound category management experience and a demonstrable ability to identify consumer trends and insights.
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to interpret a P&L.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to lead, motivate and develop a team of people.
Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call Aoife McCaul 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.
#INDSPEC
