Catherine Shoesmith
Function: Procurement
Industry: Manufacturing
Category: Food, Beverages, & Catering
Level of responsibility: Senior
Procurement system: Other
About me
A procurement professional with over 10 years experience in food manufacturing.
An experienced manager of purchasing and inbound supply chain teams.
A wide breadth of direct category experience including Ingredients (dried fruit, chocolate, nuts) and Packaging (wax wrap, printed flexibles, rigid plastics, foil containers, cartonboard, corrugated).
Experienced in developing purchasing systems and processes including category management and purchase to pay systems.
Work Experience
Head of Purchasing - Directs
Warburtons
September 2015 - Present (9 years, 4 months) | Bolton
Key responsibility for delivery and development of the purchase to pay strategy for all direct materials (ingredients and packaging excl flour).
Management of the direct buying team responsible for sourcing all ingredients and packaging - excluding flour.
Management of inbound materials control for direct materials.
Development of the indirect purchase to pay systems, policy and processes.
Procurement Manager - Packaging & Indirects
Warburtons
May 2012 - September 2015 (3 years, 4 months) | Bolton
Direct responsibility for sourcing of all packaging materials including wax wrap, printed flexibles and cartonboard.
Responsible for managing the purchasing team for indirect systems and packaging.
Management responsibility for inbound supply chain for packaging materials.
Development of the indirect systems strategy.
Category Buyer - Packaging
Warburtons
August 2010 - May 2012 (1 year, 9 months) | Bolton
Responsible for the sourcing of all packaging materials including wax wrap, bread bags, reeled films and carton board.
Supporting the NPD and EPD pipelines.
Head of Category - Processed Ingredients
Premier foods
May 2007 - August 2010 (3 years, 3 months) | Leicester
Responsibility for a team of 5 buyers, and a team spend of c. £130 million. Covering key categories including flavours and colours, chocolate, herbs and spices, food grade chemicals, dried fruit and misc ingredients.
Direct responsibility for chocolate, dried fruit and nuts.
Supporting EPD and NPD activity for brands including Mr Kipling, Bisto, Sharwoods, Ambrosia, Hartleys and Hovis.
Senior Procurement Manager - Packaging
RHM
May 2006 - May 2007 (1 year) | Leicester
Responsibility for sourcing all rigid plastic and foil packaging for RHM.
Supporting EPD and NPD activity for brands including Hovis, Mr Kipling.
Management all packaging sourcing activity for the Cakes and Customer partnerships division. Supporting the NPD teams with projects to deliver new products for key customers including Marks and Spencer's and Tesco.
Procurement Manager - RHM Frozen Foods
RHM Frozen Foods
September 2005 - May 2006 (8 months) | Gillingham
Responsibility for implementing group deals for ingredients, packaging and indirect products within RHM Frozen Foods.
Education
University of durham
Cell biology
1997 - 2000
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