Procurement Executive

Build your fresh produce procurement career in a hands-on supplier-facing role with a clear pathway into a full Buyer position.

Procurement Executive
Location: Spalding
Working Pattern: Onsite, Monday to Friday (08:30-17:00)
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 depending on experience

The Opportunity
We're supporting a growing fresh produce business to recruit a Procurement Executive into a newly created role, designed to strengthen the link between the supply base and packhouse operations.

This is a hands-on, commercially focused opportunity offering strong exposure across supplier relationships, contract fulfilment, intake quality, free-buy activity, and seasonal planning. Working closely with the Head of Procurement and wider operational teams, you'll play a key role in ensuring raw material supply aligns with production and retail requirements.

The role would suit someone commercially curious, detail-oriented, and confident building relationships within a fast-paced fresh produce or FMCG environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor supplier contracts, volumes, and fulfilment timelines
• Track market conditions and support free-buy pricing activity
• Build and maintain strong supplier and grower relationships
• Act as a key link between growers and packhouse operations
• Review intake quality, crop sizing, and packing yields
• Support seasonal transitions and promotional planning activity
• Manage supply issues, quality concerns, and load rejections with suppliers
• Review grower returns and support commercial accuracy before payment sign-off
• Work closely with procurement, intake, production, and commercial teams

What We're Looking For

• Strong numerical and analytical capability
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills
• Confident communication and relationship-building ability
• Commercial awareness and interest in procurement or supply chain
• Ability to operate effectively within a fast-paced operational environment
• Resilient and solutions-focused approach

Experience within fresh produce, food manufacturing, agriculture, or FMCG would be advantageous but is not essential.

Additional Information

• Monday to Friday onsite role
• Exposure across procurement, supply chain, intake, and supplier management
• Clear progression pathway into a full Buyer role
• Supportive, hands-on team environment

Benefits

• Company pension
• Life insurance
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Employee discount
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Free parking and company events

Why Join?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established fresh produce business offering genuine development within procurement. You'll gain practical exposure across supplier management, commercial decision-making, quality, intake, and operational planning while building towards broader Buyer responsibility in the future.