Indirect Procurement Strategist: Sourcing & Negotiation

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Woking; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured career development

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Enhanced company pension

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical after two years

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

McLaren Automotive is seeking an Indirect Procurement Buyer to support Commercial Services in managing procurement activities across Events, Brand, Marketing, and Aftersales. You will help develop category strategies and lead sourcing initiatives across the full procurement lifecycle to create value, strengthen governance, and mitigate risk.

The role requires a commercial mindset, strong stakeholder collaboration, and proven negotiation and contract management capabilities to deliver cost

Qualifications

• Experience developing category strategies.
• Proven delivery of cost savings and spend optimisation.
• Strong negotiation and contract management capability.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Excellent communication and senior stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of category and sourcing strategies and identify commercial opportunities across the suite of Commercial requirements.
• Understand markets dynamics to enable an appropriate course of action reflecting external factors and internal requirements.
• Deliver sourcing projects which deliver value, financial savings, supply assurance and risk mitigation aligned to the category strategies, while remaining compliant with governance, HSE and audit requirements.
• Apply contractual expertise to implement commercial protections, and performance measures.
• Work closely with internal service owners to support demand management, supplier performance and ongoing category optimisation.
• Act as the primary commercial interface between McLaren and suppliers.
• Lead negotiations ensuring optimal commercial outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with internal customers/ stakeholders, including Finance, Legal, IT, and others as needed.
• Report & present sourcing strategies & nomination to stakeholders
• Ensure consistent, compliant procurement processes are applied to select suppliers that deliver optimum value and service for McLaren. This includes supplier due diligence, risk assessment, evaluation, negotiation and contract execution.
• Apply knowledge of contractual terms and conditions, ensuring contracts remain commercially robust, budgets are controlled, change is managed effectively and risk is mitigated.
• Apply strong contract management ensuring budgets, change and risk are controlled.

Skills

Procurement

Negotiation

Contract management

Category strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Sourcing

Governance

Job description

McLaren Automotive is seeking an Indirect Procurement Buyer to support Commercial Services in managing procurement activities across Events, Brand, Marketing, and Aftersales. You will help develop category strategies and lead sourcing initiatives across the full procurement lifecycle to create value, strengthen governance, and mitigate risk.

The role requires a commercial mindset, strong stakeholder collaboration, and proven negotiation and contract management capabilities to deliver cost