Overview
Buyer — Birmingham — Full Time
We're looking for a proactive and commercially minded Buyer to join our Procurement team, supporting the development and execution of category strategies across Business and Soft Services. You'll play a key role in sourcing, supplier management, and delivering value through cost-effective, high-quality supply chain solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to influence strategic procurement decisions, drive innovation, and build strong relationships across internal and external stakeholders.
What are the main responsibilities?
* Lead and support strategic procurement initiatives across key spend areas as well as manage complex, high-value sourcing activities and negotiations through building strong relationships with internal stakeholders.
* Identify and onboard competitive suppliers to drive value and innovation.
* Deliver cost reduction opportunities aligned with business goals.
* Resolve supplier performance issues and implement continuous improvement plans.
* Develop and execute category strategies that meet evolving business needs.
* Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders across departments.
* Collaborate cross-functionally to understand and challenge business requirements.
* Support delivery of annual targets across cost, quality, reliability, and service.
* Implement and maintain supplier management programs for strategic and preferred suppliers.
* Monitor supplier performance and identify areas for improvement.
* Review and enhance current processes to ensure efficiency and compliance.
What are we looking for?
You will have a good level of procurement experience and buying experience within the FM industry. You will hold excellent communication, negotiation, and analytical skills as well as the ability to work creatively and analytically.
* Strong organisational and time management abilities.
* Proven experience in stakeholder management and strategy implementation.
* Conflict resolution and problem-solving capabilities.
* CIPS qualification preferred but not essential.
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Benefits and additional information
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household, with expert advice by video or phone. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme, including access to a portion of earned pay before payday for a small fee, and competitive loans.
When you join us, you'll get a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. Options include purchasing up to five extra days of holiday each year, buying critical illness insurance, dental treatment, or technology products at a reduced cost.
We provide access to high street discounts via our MiDeals platform, a cycle-to-work scheme, life cover up to four times salary, enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could be awarded free shares).
We award Mitie Stars as recognition for hard work, with monthly cash prizes and a year-end top prize of £10,000.
Our success is driven by our people. We offer diverse training and development through a wide range of learning resources.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition and need reasonable adjustments during recruitment, please email Chloe Smailes at chloe.smailes@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie's 76,000 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 to critical government sites, hospitals and schools.
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