Job Description

Working with us provides great benefits, including:

• Access your pay as you earn it through our financial wellbeing platform \'Wagestream,\' a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
• Discounted Hotel Stays across our UK sites, and if you work for a branded venue, around the World!
• 50% off Food & Beverage at all our Hotels & F&B Venues
• Spa Discounts at our venues with a Spa
• Retail, Cinema & Leisure Discounts
• Development Opportunities via our \'Grow with us\' initiative, including Apprenticeship opportunities, our Development Programmes, and more!
• Monthly \'Star of the Month\' Awards
• Long-service Awards, that start after 1 year of service
• \'Recommend a Friend\' Incentive - Be rewarded for referring someone you know!
• Access to a confidential \'Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)\' available 24/7, 365 days per year.
• Pension Scheme
• Other incentive programmes that run throughout the year

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The Purchasing Manager has overall responsibility and accountability for all aspects of supplier sourcing, contract tendering, price negotiation and monitoring, for both the operational and capital costs of over 40 hotels, bars, restaurants, and care homes.

You will lead the P2P team and liaise with the Capital Projects and Estate Maintenance Teams. Location is flexible but there will be the need for occasional travel to Newcastle and London.

About you\xe2\x80\xa6

• Experience within the hospitality industry of both large and focussed scale multi-site purchase tendering and contract negotiation, including F&B purchasing, property capex and repair and maintenance purchasing, business rates control, and utility contracts.
• Strong Excel skills to ensure accurate competitor pricing analysis.
• Experience of working with Procure Wizard desirable but not essential.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with accuracy and attention to detail. Diligent and reliable.
• Good organisational skills and ability to work to, and ensure others work to, processes and deadlines.
• Self-led with passion and drive to ensure targets are achieved or exceeded. Proactive, with a positive attitude, using initiative when completing tasks.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Organisation and control of contracts in place, to create and maintain a full contract repository, with re-negotiation deadline documentation and management.
• Liaison with Central Support and site level teams to identify cost improvement opportunities via improved purchasing management.
• Leading, documenting and delivering \xe2\x80\x9cthree quote\xe2\x80\x9d purchase processes to drive better value purchasing within wider procurement categories and on individual items.
• Monitoring and audit of past purchases to ensure they fall within the required purchasing authority and limits, and within agreed contract boundaries.
• Delegation to, and monitoring and development of, the Purchasing team.
• Reactive purchasing to ensure any bespoke, short lead time, or supply outage issues are delivered for the business to maximise operational results.
• Presentation of major purchasing decisions directly to the Investment Committee.
• Liaison with the accounts team to assist them in the effective preparation of Corporation Tax documentation.
• Liaison with the accounts team to ensure payment of major items (where appropriate) and to assist in the reconciliation of some supplier statements if there are unsolved issues.
• Monitoring of business trends and product availability to negotiate the best price for company goods and services without sacrificing quality or delivery times.
• Nurturing of relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best terms for company.
• Identifying and researching potential new suppliers.
• Evaluating and auditing the sustainability policies of all potential and actual suppliers
• Carrying out any other reasonable duty that may be requested by management that pertains to the total operation as may be reasonably required, from time to time.

About us\xe2\x80\xa6

At Cairn Group we\'re ambitious. With a varied and extensive UK portfolio of hotels, bars and restaurants in our portfolio, we\'re focused on continual growth and are in it for the long haul. We are a family owned business with family values at our core, with a growing team and sites UK wide.

Cairn Group