Senior Buyer

To provide strategic procurement leadership across multiple commodity groups, engineered products and specialist services, supporting the organisation’s commercial, operational and bid objectives .

The role is responsible for developing sourcing strategies aligned to global category management strategies, evaluating commercial and supply chain risk, supporting bids and proposals, negotiating contractual and commercial arrangements, and providing analytical decision support to improve profitability, supply continuity and competitive advantage.

The Senior Buyer role is focused on commercially significant procurement activities, supplier strategy, risk management and bid support. The role retains accountability for procurement delivery, purchase order management and supplier performance whilst supporting the ongoing development and transition of appropriate transactional and administrative procurement activities to designated procurement support functions. The primary focus shall remain on activities that directly influence profitability, risk reduction, supply assurance and business competitiveness.

REQUIRED

- MCIPS qualified, working towards MCIPS, or degree-qualified in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Engineering or another relevant discipline.

OR

- Extensive experience operating at Senior Buyer, Procurement Specialist, Category Buyer or equivalent level within a highly regulated manufacturing, engineering or new product development environment.

- Examples include Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Defence, Pharmaceutical, Nuclear, Medical Device.