Senior procurement, when you need it.
An independent procurement advisory for manufacturers in food, drink and personal care.
Market intelligence
Know the market before your supplier tells you.
Advisory
Procurement support that fits your business.
Review
what you spend, with whom and where the value sits, before anything changes. Every category and supplier on one page, ranked by the size of the opportunity.
Reduce
prices on the categories that matter, with contracts that keep the saving in place. Suppliers benchmarked, tendered where it pays and renegotiated where it does not.
Strengthen
your supply base, with suppliers held to clear standards and a second option ready before you need one. The categories that would stop production are mapped first, so failure is planned for rather than discovered.
Lead
your procurement, hands-on, while your own team is built, then hand it back. Interim cover for a gap, a peak or a change, at senior level from the first day.
Twenty to one
A pound taken out of cost is a pound of margin.
At a 5% operating margin
The UK’s 150 largest food and drink suppliers averaged a 5.7% operating margin in their 2024 financial year (OC&C Top 150, 2025 edition, The Grocer).
Portcroft
Independent, senior, and built to hand back.
Independent by design
No software is resold, no supplier commissions accepted and no referral fees received. Every recommendation is made solely in your commercial interests.
Senior attention throughout
Every engagement is led and delivered by an experienced procurement professional. The person who understands your business is the person who carries out the work.
Built to be handed back
The objective is a procurement function that is stronger once the engagement ends, not a dependency on the adviser who built it.
“Most mid-sized manufacturers need senior procurement capability without needing it full time. Hiring for that is hard to justify. Bringing it in when it is needed is not.”
Over a decade leading international procurement in manufacturing, across bakery, oils and cosmetics. Now working directly with UK manufacturers, on every engagement from the first review to the handover.
Contact
Let’s discuss your commercial priorities.
Start with a conversation about your procurement objectives and where you want to improve.
- Phone
- +44 333 090 4360
- Based
- Manchester, working UK-wide
Get in touch
- Phone
- +44 333 090 4360
- Portcroft
- Based
- Manchester, working UK-wide
Or send an enquiry here.