Category Buyer

Weetabix; Burton Latimer; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Double-matched pension scheme (up to

25 days annual leave increasing with 1

Annual Salary review

Healthcare plan

Discounted Weetabix products

Flexible work opportunities

Job summary

Weetabix is seeking a Category Buyer - Indirects and Ingredients to manage sourcing across indirect spend categories in a fast-paced FMCG environment. You will deliver RFx processes, support category strategies with data-driven insights, and negotiate commercial documents per policy.

You will engage across stakeholders, manage supplier communications, and track performance through SRM practices. You will contribute to governance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement, leveraging AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement, sourcing, or commercial operations, ideally within fast-paced environments such as fast-moving consumer goods.
• Working knowledge of request for proposal, request for quotation, and request for information processes, alongside contract fundamentals and supplier management.
• Indight capability, with confidence interpreting data and generating actionable insights.
• Effective negotiation skills for low to medium complexity commercial documents.
• Ability to engage stakeholders and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365, procurement systems, and data analysis tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver RFx processes and tenders, ensuring competitive, compliant and timely outcomes.
• Help category strategies through data insights and effective execution of sourcing activities.
• Draft, review and negotiate straightforward commercial documents in line with procurement policy.
• Engage stakeholders to gather requirements, question assumptions and align sourcing issues to business needs.
• Manage supplier communications, including bids, clarifications and timelines.
• Maintain governance, ensuring accurate documentation, approvals and audit readiness.
• Track category performance, including total cost of ownership, savings, compliance and improvement activity.
• Monitor and manage supplier performance using scorecards, action tracking and SRM practices.
• Build supplier relationships, helping performance, issue resolution and continuous improvement.
• Maintain accurate supplier and contract data, including pricing and supporting records.
• Provide data, insight and operational help to enable efficient delivery of category priorities.
• Use data to deliver market insights, supplier comparisons and commercial recommendations.
• Help the adoption of artificial intelligence-enabled procurement tools to improve information, automation and risk identification.
• Contribute to demand planning by presenting insights that look at cost and complexity.
• Identify and own continuous improvement across processes, sourcing and supplier engagement.
• Work with supplier-led innovation and contribute to risk management, supply continuity and resilience.

Skills

Procurement experience

RFx processes

Data insights

Negotiation skills

Stakeholder management

MS 365

Procurement systems

Data analysis tools

Job description

Category Buyer - Indirects and Category Buyer - Ingredients

Closing date: 28th July 2026
Interview process: Two Stage Interview Process
Working pattern: You’ll spend three days a week in the office, creating great opportunities to collaborate, strengthen team connections and build high‑impact working relationships face to face.

We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Just let us know how we can support you.

Weetabix is on an exciting growth journey, and many of the opportunities we are recruiting for are newly created roles. These positions reflect our investment in people, capabilities and innovation as we continue to build for the future.

The Recipe (About the Role)

In this role, you will deliver sourcing activity across indirect spend categories, combining commercial insight, supplier relationship management and data to create value for the business. Working within a fast-paced FMCG environment, you will help category strategies, manage supplier performance and own continuous improvement, while leveraging digital procurement and AI-enabled tools to enhance efficiency, compliance and business outcomes.

• Deliver Request for Information, Request for Proposal and Request for Quotation (RFx) processes and tenders, ensuring competitive, compliant and timely outcomes
• Help category strategies through data insights and effective execution of sourcing activities
• Draft, review and negotiate straightforward commercial documents in line with procurement policy
• Engage stakeholders to gather requirements, question assumptions and align sourcing issues to business needs
• Manage supplier communications, including bids, clarifications and timelines
• Maintain governance, ensuring accurate documentation, approvals and audit readiness
• Track category performance, including total cost of ownership, savings, compliance and improvement activity
• Monitor and manage supplier performance using scorecards, action tracking and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) practices
• Build supplier relationships, helping performance, issue resolution and continuous improvement
• Maintain accurate supplier and contract data, including pricing and supporting records
• Provide data, insight and operational help to enable efficient delivery of category priorities
• Use data to deliver market insights, supplier comparisons and commercial recommendations
• Help the adoption of artificial intelligence-enabled procurement tools to improve information, automation and risk identification
• Contribute to demand planning by presenting insights that look at cost and complexity
• Identify and own continuous improvement across processes, sourcing and supplier engagement
• Work with supplier-led innovation and contribute to risk management, supply continuity and resilience

The Ingredients (What we need from you)

Key Know How:

• Experience in procurement, sourcing, or commercial operations, ideally within fast-paced environments such as fast-moving consumer goods.
• Working knowledge of request for proposal, request for quotation, and request for information processes, alongside contract fundamentals and supplier management.
• Indight capability, with confidence interpreting data and generating actionable insights.
• Effective negotiation skills for low to medium complexity commercial documents.
• Ability to engage stakeholders and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365, procurement systems, and data analysis tools.

Your Bowl of Perks (Benefits)

Competitive salary & Annual Flexible benefits

We offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, career, and life outside work.

• Annual bonus
• Double-matched pension scheme (up to 12% from us)
• 25 days annual leave increasing with service
• Annual Salary review
• Healthcare plan
• Discounted Weetabix products

To support our employees, we also offer:

• Continued investment in your personal development
• We believe in balance, whether it's for family, rest or simply time for you. As well as your holiday entitlement, you can purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave
• Access to 24/7 counselling service (via Grocery Aid partnership)
• The freedom of Flexible Work Opportunities
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave
• Additional Time Off for Fertility Treatment and Neonatal Care
• Working Parents Support Group
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy

Please note: We benchmark roles based on your skills and experience, so we do not advertise fixed salary ranges.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this position; therefore, we are seeking candidates who do not require sponsorship.