FMCG procurement recruitment.
The people who agree what goes into the product, who makes it and what it costs. MAVI recruits procurement talent for consumer brands, from Buyer to Procurement Director.
Margin is decided before the product is made.
Direct procurement
Everything that ends up in or around the product, and the co-manufacturing contracts behind it.
Ingredients
Raw materials and commodities, where a buyer who understands the market can protect a year's margin with one decision.
Packaging
Cost, lead times and sustainability commitments, and the trade-offs between them.
Indirect procurement
Logistics, marketing, professional services and the rest of the spend that grows quietly as a business scales.
Supplier management
Relationships, performance and continuity of supply, particularly where one supplier holds too much of the business.
Strategic sourcing
Category strategy, tendering and supplier base design for businesses ready to move beyond buying order by order.
From first buyer to the board.
- Buyer
- Senior Buyer
- Category Buyer
- Procurement Manager
- Head of Procurement
- Procurement Director
Category knowledge first. A good packaging buyer and a good ingredients buyer know different markets and different suppliers.
Then the setting. In a large business procurement is a defined function with policies and systems. In a scaling brand it is often the first time anyone has owned the spend, and the right person needs to build supplier relationships and basic process at the same time, usually while working closely with planning and NPD. Sagar looks for people who have saved money without damaging the supplier relationship that the next launch depends on.
Hiring into procurement?
Or thinking about your own next move. Either way, start with a conversation.