About this role
### What to Expect
The Programme Purchasing Buyer acts as the commercial support and business partner for assigned vehicle programme(s), providing the interface between Procurement and cross-functional teams including Programme Management, Engineering, Finance, Quality, and Manufacturing. This role supports the coordination of procurement activities to enable programme delivery, focusing on nomination planning support, investment tracking, and ensuring commercial readiness across all programme phases. The role supports costed BOM development and provides procurement input to programme cost management whilst helping to align commodity purchasing activities to programme milestones.
What You'll Do
- Support procurement partnership with programme stakeholders and facilitate communication between commodity buyers and programme teams
- Attend governance forums and provide commercial support on programme decisions
- Support development of procurement strategies and supplier nomination plans aligned to programme milestones
- Track nomination status, risks, and dependencies across commodities, coordinating documentation and approvals
- Maintain programme schedules, action trackers, nomination reports, and support gate readiness reviews
- Collect and consolidate commodity cost inputs and tooling/investment data for programme reporting
- Maintain cost and investment trackers, supporting the monitoring of spend versus budget
- Support cost validation, cost analysis, and business case updates
- Track contract status, supplier readiness for builds, and compile procurement KPIs
- Prepare programme status updates and materials for senior management reviews
- Organise and administer programme procurement working groups and coordinate information flow between teams
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management, or related field
- Proactive, self-motivated team player able to manage multiple priorities under pressure
- Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
- Commercial awareness and financial understanding
- Excellent organisational abilities with attention to detail
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience in automotive programme management (desirable)
- Working towards CIPS qualification (desirable)
- Strong organisational, coordination, and data management skills
- Understanding of automotive product development processes
### What We'll Do for You
We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus award
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
- Life assurance benefit
- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- Generous parental leave policies
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
### Who Are We?
No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.
It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.
McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.