Senior Buyer
Birmingham or London - Full Time
We're looking for a proactive and collaborative Senior Buyer to support our Category Manager and Procurement Business Partners in the Mechanical and Electrical category. In this role, you'll help develop and deliver category strategies, lead sourcing and ensure best‑in‑class supplier performance across your category areas.
You won't have direct reports, but you'll often work within cross‑functional teams and take the lead on key workstreams.
What are the main responsibilities?
You will work closely within the M&E category to purchase all required materials and products to Support the development and delivery of category strategies. You will work to gather spend, volume and service data to prepare for eRFx and eAuctions as well as them including supplier selection, negotiation and contracting. You'll also:
* Track market trends and industry insights to support risk management and forward planning.
* Identify and deliver cost savings, cost reductions and value‑for‑money initiatives.
* Build strong relationships with Procurement Business Partners and key stakeholders to understand business needs and drive compliance to category strategy.
* Collect and analyse supplier performance data to support the Supplier Management Framework (SMF).
* Maintain SMF scorecards and follow up on supplier corrective actions.
* Support ethical and sustainable sourcing initiatives including ESG, VCSE and modern slavery commitments.
* Support rollout and performance tracking of the Coupa P2P process
What are we looking for?
You will be an experienced Buyer or Purchasers ideally within Hard Services, though the category background is trainable. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work on a varied workload with different size of financial values and understand the commercials of procurement. You'll also:
* Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
* Demonstrable category management and negotiation skills.
* Competent with Microsoft Office and P2P systems.
* MCIPS qualification (or working towards it).