Senior Buyer

1st Executive Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An award-winning global manufacturing business is seeking a Senior Buyer to lead strategic procurement efforts. This role focuses on category management, requiring strong analytical and negotiation skills to enhance supplier relationships and drive improvements across multiple sites. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, driven, and ready to implement effective category strategies that foster change and innovation. Join a dynamic team in a role that promises to be both challenging and rewarding, where your contributions will directly impact the company's global success.

Qualifications

• Solid procurement experience in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Experience in implementing category strategies for global improvements.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic category management initiatives for procurement.
• Identify improvement opportunities through strong analytical skills.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Negotiation Skills

Category Management

Manufacturing Processes Knowledge

Job description

I am currently recruiting for a Senior Buyer for a global manufacturing business. They are looking for someone with solid procurement experience ideally gained within a manufacturing/engineering environment, although this isn't essential. This award-winning global business has 23 global manufacturing sites.

They are moving towards category management, so are looking for someone more strategic than operational.

Key Area of Experience:

• Strong analytical skills to identify improvement opportunities
• Implementation of category strategies resulting in improvements both in the UK and globally
• Excellent negotiation skills able to use different methods with different suppliers
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and cost drivers in related categories or an interest in learning this
• Category management experience

You need to be driven, enthusiastic, and able to drive change.

This role is based in Staffordshire and is 100% on site.