Strategic Sourcing Buyer – Smallwares & Consumables

High Wycombe – HP11 2EE

Hybrid working - 3 days office based

IPC EMEA, the purchasing and supply chain organisation for Subway Franchisees in Europe, has an excellent opportunity for a Strategic Sourcing Buyer to join our Equipment & Services team responsible for Smallwares & Consumables categories.

The role

Responsible for full cycle category management of Smallwares & Consumables including supplier management, negotiating contracts, tenders and spend analysis.

Category is circa 4million spend and includes equipment to serve and store food items and daily operational items used in store.

The successful candidate will require strong communication, project and stakeholder management skills.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Strategic Sourcing Buyer looking to further their career with their own category management.

Accountable for

• Delivering key projects against a defined category plan
• Meeting or exceeding KPIs on cost and risk management, ensuring key risks are understood, and documented and suitable mitigation plans are in place
• Working with supply chain, CSR, operations and commercialisation to ensure key strategic projects are delivered

What is important to us

Our culture and values are at the heart of everything we do and are an important part of our hiring process.

Our three values are:

• We are empowered - we have the freedom to make a difference together.
• We collaborate - we trust and depend on each other. We contribute. We succeed together.
• We deliver on our commitments - we deliver on our commitments together, individually, today and tomorrow.

Our ground rules:

• Be courageous in being vulnerable
• Be open minded and curious. Open to others’ perspectives
• Say what we mean
• Be ourselves. Bring our opinions and thoughts
• Speak up. Get our itches scratched. Surface concerns
• Provide support, understanding and empathy if we slip down the ladder
• Watch for subgroups within our group
• Nurture ourselves and other

How we support our employees

Joining a new company can be daunting; we support everyone who has chosen IPC EMEA to develop their career, with:

• A structured onboarding programme.
• Time with the senior leadership team, as well as your colleagues and our Culture Champions.
• Training programmes to develop your skills and ways of working, focusing on feedback and management of work.
• Flexible working between the hours 8am - 6.30pm. We appreciate the juggle of life and home can be challenging and provide opportunities to flex your start and leave times.
• Excellent benefits package including enhanced pension contribution, healthcare, 25 days holiday, salary sacrifice schemes. Plus, we also provide breakfast and lunch items in the office!
• On-site parking
• A chance to volunteer at our nominated charities. In addition, you will get one volunteer day a year to work with your chosen charity.
• Recognition award schemes and a Summer and Winter event each year

We actively support diversity, equity and inclusion and make sure that our employees are valued and treated with dignity and respect. We encourage everyone in our business to reach their potential.

About us

Subway is one of the fastest growing Franchise networks in the world and the largest submarine sandwich chain, with more than 41,500 stores – more than 4,500 of which are in Europe.

IPC EMEA, (formally IPC Europe), is a non-profit making organisation owned by Subway Franchisees in Europe. The organisation was established in 2001 to enable Subway Franchisees to benefit from the discounts that come from purchasing and supplying products in large volumes. Over time, the breadth of the services we provide, and our geographic reach has grown.

Our scope now goes beyond purchasing and supply chain management as we seek to have a positive impact on every Franchisee’s P&L, wherever possible. We work with service providers to offer Franchisees a range of optional services such as Wi-Fi, energy, pest control and card payments. Our aim is to ensure we select the best providers, offering the best quality services at competitive rates.

We also provide a range of in-house support services, value-add initiatives and retail technology solutions for restaurant teams to help with day-to-day operations.

Today, IPC EMEA operates on a global, regional, and local level to source high quality products at the best value for Franchisees, managing over £1.5 billion worth of contracts and partnering with other IPCs across the world where it makes sense to do so, to get the best possible service and prices.

We remain as focused on our mission today as we did 20 years ago, to help Subway Franchisees be more profitable and competitive – today and for the future.

For more information, please visit www.ipcemea.org