Category Specialist

4 months ago


Auckland City, New Zealand My Food Bag Group Limited Full time

**About us**:
My Food Bag is New Zealand's longest-standing meal kit provider and is a well-loved and successful New Zealand brand. Each week My Food Bag delivers thousands of bags full of nutritious, locally sourced ingredients along with easy-to-follow recipes direct to families across New Zealand, taking the stress out of mealtimes and bringing families together.

My Food Bag has an exciting opportunity for a Category Specialist to join our high-performing Procurement Team Spend the year building your skills and experience for a well-known NZ business.

This is a permanent, full-time role and we offer a minimum guaranteed 40 hours per week of work. We offer competitive remuneration based on experience.

**Responsibilities will include**:

- Manage assigned suppliers to a specific delivery window, ensuring they deliver to the appropriate distribution centre without delaying the pick-and-pack operation.
- Continuous communication with critical and strategic suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Ordering within Budget and having back-up plans when necessary.
- Perform category management including incident reactive buying, supplier relationship management, and performance and risk management.
- Establish, maintain and build relationships with assigned suppliers.
- Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective supply markets, competitors and product innovations.
- Provide issue resolution for supplier service and quality issues.
- Help build competition and backup supply options for high-spend ingredients.
- Address supplier issues to ensure the highest level of service.
- Develop best procurement practices to best manage assigned suppliers.

**About you**:

- Prior purchasing or category experience in a similar role is strongly preferred
- Sound Microsoft Excel knowledge
- Experience with Power BI - running & updating reports
- Experience or knowledge of M3/ Infor ERP systems
- Experience in FMCG or any other food-related company is strongly preferred
- Data analysis experience is an advantage

**About us at MFB**

We are a fast moving, ambitious team that are driven to do what's right for our customers. That all starts with looking after our people first, here are some of our great staff benefits
- 50% off one MFB core product bag/week.
- Flexible working policy
- Lunch together as a team regularly
- A day off on your birthday
- Free coffee, snacks and tasting recipes (Food is our passion)

Our office is a great environment with a test kitchen creating amazing dishes every day(we all take our roles to provide feedback very seriously). We have a fun, social environment and if you love food, you will love being part of our team.


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