Our Manufacturing sites are fast paced and demanding. We’re the only major UK supermarket with our own abattoir and meat processing site so, where better to develop your skills and grow your career?
Our Livestock Buyers are key to ensuring we get high quality product for our customers. This role will focus on procurement of cattle and lambs. Reporting into the Senior Livestock Manager, you will work alongside a wider team sourcing approximately £450m worth of stock every year including 180,000 cattle, 1.5 million pigs and 650,000 lambs as well as dealing with over 3000 suppliers.
You will also be responsible for:
- Maintain relationships with current and new suppliers; ensuring that stock is bought to plan at the given weekly price on farm or market
Monitor supplier performance, including welfare indicators
- Working closely alongside all livestock entities, providing and resolving issues regarding livestock deliveries, overnight stocking densities and the changes of deliveries required by operations.
- Confirm all buying on time in full as soon as possible, to conform to planning, operations and transport requirements
- Show clear understanding of all Woodheads livestock schemes
- Manage the supplier base to achieve cost savings and other End to End benefits for the business
- Ensure that livestock is sourced to our business needs and to the requirements of our retail consumer.
This job will require you to work 5 over 7 days.
About Colne Manufacturing:
Set on nine acres of land, our 16,700 square foot Colne site is one of Europe’s largest beef, pork and lamb processing facilities.
Here our 840 colleagues work five days a week, producing meat and raw materials for sausages, pies and more. We supply our stores and Farmers Boy with 150 products. Everything from pork shanks and beef fillets to oxtail primals and pork shoulder joints.
Please note: this involves working in an Abattoir environment as well as field based.