Supplier Relationship Manager at Advocate Group

Job Description:

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Are you ready to take supplier relationships to the next level?

Advocate Group is proud to represent a leading FMCG brand in their search for a Supplier Relationship Manager to join their Procurement team.

The Role:

We are looking for a candidate who can own and enhance relationships with strategic suppliers, ensuring reliability, quality, and value beyond cost.

Here’s how:

• Manage end-to-end relationships with key suppliers, ensuring alignment to performance, compliance, and planning expectations.
• Lead Quarterly Business Reviews, long-term agreements, and improvement initiatives.
• Drive supplier-enabled innovation, from materials to product formats and value engineering.
• Monitor supplier performance metrics (delivery, quality, responsiveness) and lead improvement cycles.
• Collaborate with Planning, Operations, Technical/Quality, Commercial, and Finance teams to ensure a stable, reliable supply chain.
• Support formalization of SLAs and supplier governance to improve lead times and operational predictability.

About You:

• Strong relationship management and negotiation skills, ideally in food, beverage, or related categories.
• Commercially minded with experience in supplier contracts, compliance, and performance management.
• Comfortable using data to drive decisions and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communicator, able to influence across multiple functions and levels.
• Curious, ambitious, and entrepreneurial, with a proactive, open mindset.
• Experience in regulated or claims-sensitive categories (e.g., health & wellness, functional foods, early-life nutrition, free-from foods) is advantageous.

If the role and responsibilities sound like a good fit for you, then I’d love to speak to you!

Find out more about our available opportunities or how we can help you further your career – contact us today.

Please get in touch with Ciara Barr-Hall or click “Apply Now” to be considered for this vacancy.

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Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG and consumer product sectors.

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Job Info:

• Company: Advocate Group
• Position: Supplier Relationship Manager
• Work Location: St Helens
• Country: GB

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