Buyer

THG Ingenuity; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

THG Ingenuity is recruiting an Indirect Procurement Buyer to drive savings across multiple indirect spend categories and lead strategic sourcing initiatives for THG Fulfil. You will leverage relationships with senior stakeholders and suppliers to secure best-in-class deals while maintaining compliance with procurement strategy.

The role requires strong data analysis, advanced Excel skills, and a proactive, commercially minded approach to negotiations and contract management.

Qualifications

• Indirect procurement experience required.
• Ability to independently identify and execute complex savings opportunities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and proactive mindset.
• High level of commercial awareness and excellent negotiation skills.
• Collaborative approach to working with senior business stakeholders.
• Strong data analysis capabilities, including advanced Excel.
• Robust understanding of procurement processes and best-practice.

Responsibilities

• Identify savings opportunities to create and maintain a procurement pipeline.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to execute high-value procurement initiatives.
• Manage key suppliers to ensure value throughout the contract cycle.
• Negotiate high-value contracts with favourable terms.
• Collaborate with Legal and Operations to negotiate robust clauses.
• Stay updated with market trends and new technologies for performance gains.

Skills

Indirect procurement

Savings opportunities

Negotiation

Commercial awareness

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Excel advanced

Job description

About THG Ingenuity

THG Ingenuity is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology, robotics, and operations platform built for global ecommerce. Developed through more than two decades of operating ecommerce and retail services at scale, its software and automation capabilities have been engineered, tested, and refined through the real-world demands of managing complex commerce operations. Today, THG Ingenuity provides an integrating operating environment that enables brands to intelligently optimise the entire commerce lifecycle from browsing and checkout to AI inventory management and forecasting, automated fulfilment, carrier control, and customer experience. The platform comprises:

• THG Fulfil: The fulfilment operating system for global ecommerce. Delivered via a proprietary SaaS and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, THG Fulfil orchestrates every stage of checkout, fulfilment, delivery, and customer experience through an integrated system.
• THG Studios: The UK’s most innovative creative hub, helping brands create content that connects, experiences that engage, and IP that scales, all from its end-to-end, in-house facilities.
• THG Commerce: A cloud-native technology stack enabling retailers and brands to create intelligent, AI-powered, digital shopping experiences, while integrated marketplace and social commerce functionality allows brands to reach customers across every sales channel

With its expertise in building and scaling brands, THG Ingenuity is uniquely positioned to bring pertinent, pragmatic, and global know-how across all aspects of commerce.

About the Procurement team and the Role

The Indirect Procurement team support departments in delivering innovative, externally supported solutions and ensuring we make commercially astute decisions across our supply eco-system.

The Indirect Procurement team at THG Ingenuity play a pivotal role in ensuring commercial value is realised for all goods and services purchases that the business requires to function. As a Buyer, you will already have gained significant experience across multiple Indirect spend categories, which you will use to lead key strategic sourcing exercises across our THG Fulfil business, using your relationship‑building and negotiation skills, creativity and your deep commercial acumen to deliver exceptional deals for THG Ingenuity. With over £100m of spend under management across these categories, you will have the opportunity to make a material impact on the Group’s P&L.

To be successful in this role, you will be adept at manipulating financial data to uncover savings opportunities, whilst leveraging relationships with senior business stakeholders to translate these into sourcing strategies. You will use all negotiation levers at your disposal to achieve best‑in‑class deals on new spend, whilst managing key suppliers closely to ensure value is retained throughout the contract life cycle. Equally important will be your ability to govern internal compliance to group procurement strategy, using your experience to suggest and implement process improvements to enhance effective spend management.

Responsibilities:

• Identify savings opportunities, to create and maintain a Procurement pipeline
• Work collaboratively with senior business stakeholders to execute complex and high‑value procurement initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
• Manage key suppliers to ensure that value is delivered throughout the contract cycle
• Negotiate high‑value contracts, ensuring that favourable commercial terms are secured
• Collaborate with Legal and Operations to negotiate robust contract clauses
• Keep up to date with market trends and identify innovative new technologies that can deliver business performance improvements

Requirements:

• Indirect procurement experience required (Operations/Supply Chain Category Experience preferred)
• Ability to independently identify and execute complex savings opportunities
• Strong problem‑solving skills and proactive mindset
• High level of commercial awareness and excellent negotiation skills
• Collaborative approach to working with senior business stakeholders
• Strong data analysis capabilities, including advanced Excel
• Robust understanding of Procurement process and best‑practice

THG Ingenuity is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG Ingenuity is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven’t heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG Ingenuity please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.