Salary up to: Competitive
A bit about us...
Ask people where Nando’s comes from and you’ll get a different answer every time. Portugal? Mexico? The UK? Our story actually starts in Rosettenville, a Portuguese neighbourhood in Johannesburg, South Africa. With stops in Mozambique and the UK along the way.
It was 1987 and Robbie Brozin and Fernando Duarte opened their first chicken restaurant. Then another. And then another. Fast forward five years and Nando’s landed in the UK. Now, with over 460 restaurants (and counting), our PERi-PERi is a bestselling hot sauce and Nando’s has become as big a part of culture as drinking tea.
We’ve got a growing family of 20,000 Nandocas (what we call our employees), fuelled by our values: Pride, Passion, Integrity, Courage and Family. We care as much about them as we do our legendary, flame-grilled PERi-PERi – because it’s the people that make the chicken.
Inspired by our Southern African heritage, we know and value the richness diversity brings. So we're committed to creating an inclusive and respectful culture for all. We’ve even been recognised as one of the industry leaders by the Financial Times.
We have identified several organisational shifts as part of our ongoing business strategy. The Supply Chain Team play a crucial role in helping to deliver the Nando’s strategic goals through providing a robust and stable supply chain, improving gross profit and margin, and addressing risk. This team is responsible for developing strategies to ensure we source products and services that we are proud of to support running restaurants brilliantly and enable our central support teams.
Main purpose of the role
- To strategically source, and manage supply of, restaurant service providers that support restaurants and central support functions by ensuring robust supply, competitive terms, innovation, supplier capacity to meet business growth and sustainable sourcing.
- To support the Head of Procurement to deliver the strategy, support the restaurant operations and develop the procurement team’s individual and collective capabilities.
- To build and maintain excellent internal stakeholder relationships for all categories of procurement spend managed, translating their needs into a procurement and supplier strategy, leading the supplier selection and contracting process and supporting the stakeholders in managing suppliers.
A day in the life...
- To lead the strategic procurement plan for assigned categories of third party spend, ensuring there is an appropriate plan to support the Nando’s restaurant operations and business growth.
- To ensure security of supply, manage supply risk and contingency planning and implement risk mitigation plans.
- To source and manage day-today restaurant services including waste management, janitorial services, BOC, cleaning services and plant management services.
- To collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine the appropriate approach to market for each category (including tendering, negotiation stages, consolidation etc) and the contracting strategy (framework, length, terms and conditions).
- To negotiate all contracts for supply of products and services, and ensure contracts are formally documented and signed.
- To manage the implementation of initiatives within the categories managed, including the management of internal and external stakeholders.
- To develop valued supplier relationships with strategic suppliers and ensure supplier relationship management and performance management is applied across all suppliers.
- Some roles will involve leading and managing an Assistant Procurement Manager (s), developing their technical skills and knowledge, setting targets and monitoring KPIs, creating development and succession plans and providing continuous feedback and coaching.
- To drive a strong sustainability agenda across the supply base.
- To support Nando’s Southern Africa sourcing plan.
Hot Skills...
- A demonstrable and thorough understanding of the complete indirect procurement process for specialist product and service categories.
- Experience managing Waste Services
- 3+ years' experience in a procurement role within a large, multi-site organisation.
- Proven track record of leading and developing procurement strategies to support the business and drive continuous improvement.
- Gravitas, strong influencing skills and ability to engage and build positive relationships with stakeholders.
- In depth understanding of industry best practice for procurement standards in the supply chain, including sustainability.
- Inspiring Others, Customer Focus, Personal Integrity, Drive, Team Working, Developing Self / Others, Analysing & Decision Making, Managing Performance, Managing Change, Gaining Commitment, Commercial Acumen.
- Demonstrate and encourage behaviours that foster the Nando’s values of Pride, Passion, Courage, Integrity & Family.
Company bonus
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Free Nando’s when you're working (and 40% discount when you're not)
Annual team trips, AKA a free holiday
Reward membership scheme and access to great discounts
Four-week sabbatical every five years you’ve been with us
Private healthcare
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