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Nordic F&B Purchasing Specialist

Avolta – Nordic F&B Purchasing Specialist

Journey On!

 

Are you ready to be part of our Travel Experience Revolution?

 

Become part of the Avolta team! We are looking for a permanent Nordic F&B Purchasing Specialist based in Finland

 

Who we are:

Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents.

In the Nordics Avolta offers travel retail under the brand of Dufry with 16 stores at airports in Sweden and 14 stores at Helsinki Airport, Finland. Under the umbrella HMSHost, we will run 13 restaurants, cafés and convenience stores at Arlanda Airport, Sweden and 16 restaurants, cafés and convenience stores at Helsinki Airport, Finland at the end of 2024.

 

About the role:

As a Nordic F&B Purchasing Specialist you will join our Nordic F&B team answering to a Nordic F&B Director.

This key role assists the Nordic F&B Director in ensuring the correct and consistent implementation of goods, and implementation and maintenance of the Supply Chain and purchasing strategy.

Main responsibilities are divided to four categories with Sourcing and Supply Chain, Food Development, Cost Controlling and Quality assurance.

You create professional relationships easily with our internal and external stakeholders, especially with suppliers. You have commercial drive to assist in setting up new businesses and expanding the supplier network while understanding the financial responsibility and impact of your work. Your way of working is exact and organized ensuring our reporting and data is precise and on schedule.

You pro-actively advise, recommend, coordinate and resolve outstanding issues by working cross-functionally when necessary and support other functions with Quality Assurance and HACCP.

You follow up with new trends in F&B and support F&B Director in ensuring the development of our food and beverage products.

 

What we are looking for:

  • Extensive operational F&B experience of which at least 3 years of managerial experience in multi-unit F&B organization
  • Experience in tender processes, purchasing and supply chain
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills to enable effective cross-functional team work. You communicate in a professional level both in English and Finnish, Swedish is considered an asset.
  • Resourceful with a positive attitude, thrive on challenges and driven to develop solutions.
  • Strong execution and operational skills with a good eye for detail.
  • Good problem solving, analytical and numeracy skills.
  • Ability to work well under pressure and time constraint
  • Very good knowledge and affinity with computers and MS Office
  • Broad commercial experience in a profit organization

 

This is a fulltime (37,5 h/week) position with permanent contract. You mainly work during office hours, but some flexibility is required. You join our office at Helsinki Airport and we expect some travelling. According to our remote work policy, you can work remotely two days a week.

 

You are joining an international work place with great career opportunities and benefits including parking, sport and culture vouchers and discounts on our own and other airport services.

Application period is open until 5.5.2024 and we are going through applications during this period. We hope to see you start in June.

 

For further information, you can contact Nordic F&B Director Nina Johansson Norberg: nina.johansson@hmshost.net

 

Please note that to be able to work at airport, you will go through standard background check and are required to have valid proof of identity. We require existing eligibility to work and reside in Finland.

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