Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Role Purpose

To lead and develop a packaging purchasing team, providing clear direction and appropriate support to ensure delivery against purchasing and business targets and strategies

Key Accountabilities

• To develop and maintain high performing, motivated and engaged teams through one to one coaching, providing direction, leadership and creating bespoke development plans to maximise team members’ potential both as individuals and as a team
• Ownership of all purchasing activity within the material areas, ensuring that total spend is managed effectively and efficiently, with rigorous attention to detail on financial tracking and forecasting (including elements of credit and counterparty risk)
• Support of the creation and implementation of product category sourcing plans across the group, ensuring overall alignment to business and purchasing strategies, including Greencore’s sustainability strategy
• Stakeholder engagement with Commercial teams including support of inflation recovery, ensuring governance and confidentiality
• Stakeholder engagement with Operational teams (including Technical and Sustainability) to ensure correct Quality and inbound Service Levels are achieved
• Monitor team adherence to systems and processes to ensure accuracy, and legal, contractual compliance
• Support the achievement of our sustainability plan through leading with a sustainability mindset
• Support the achievement of our inclusion and diversity aspirations through role modelling and personally leading and hiring inclusively, embracing and encouraging diversity
• Implement and ensure compliance with our data management and governance policies, procedures and/or guidance governance approaches so that associated risks are mitigated and managed
• Actively sponsor and commit the necessary resource and focus required to deliver our inclusion and diversity commitments, goals and targets and be a role model for inclusive leadership behaviours
• Actively sponsor and commit the necessary resource and focus required to support delivery of our sustainability commitments, goals and targets
• Actively manage organisational risk related to both Cyber Security and data, by committing the necessary focus, resource and investing in the skills and experience required to ensure compliance to relevant policies and legislation, along with taking ownership for personal and commercial data processed throughout the group

What we’re looking for

• Degree calibre with good breadth and depth of purchasing and negotiation experience 
• Experience of influencing across all stakeholder groups, and of senior leadership decision making 
• Experience of successfully leading teams, with a proven track record of building internal capability, coaching and facilitating skills development 
• Project management capability and experience of successfully delivering results in a fast-paced environment 
• Ability to build relationship and deliver results through others

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.