Senior Buyer - Indirects (Corporate and Professional Services)
HOURS: 40 Hours Monday - Friday
LOCATION: Birmingham or London
Join Mitie – the future of high‑performing places. At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Senior Buyer who will support the development and delivery of category strategies, sourcing activities, and supplier management across our Indirect category within Corporate and Professional Services.
Role Responsibilities
* Support and lead on strategic procurement activities.
* Manage complex, high‑value sourcing projects and negotiations, identifying competitive supply options.
* Negotiate with and influence suppliers to secure best market value.
* Identify opportunities for cost reduction and value optimisation within the business.
* Work with suppliers to resolve performance issues and drive improvements.
* Develop and implement category strategies aligned to business requirements.
* Support internal stakeholders across cost, quality, reliability, and delivery targets.
* Build strong cross‑functional relationships to gather, assess and challenge business requirements.
* Maintain and enhance the Supplier Management Programme, ensuring performance is monitored and improved.
* Manage relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, maintaining a trusted commercial presence.
Required Qualifications & Experience
* Proven procurement experience with ownership of category and workload
* Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical and customer‑facing skills.
* Strong organisational and time‑management abilities.
* Experience working in a fast‑paced, problem‑solving environment.
* Demonstrable stakeholder management experience with a focus on strategy implementation and risk mitigation.
* Ability to manage conflict and resolve issues effectively.
* CIPS qualification is preferred but not essential.
Benefits
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well‑known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle‑to‑work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Chloe Smailes at chloe.smailes@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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