Senior Buyer

Oceaneering International; Rosyth; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Oceaneering International in Rosyth, United Kingdom, seeks a Senior Buyer to lead strategic procurement across multiple commodity groups and specialized services. You will develop sourcing strategies aligned with global category management objectives, evaluate risks, support bids, negotiate contracts, and provide analytical insights to improve profitability and supply continuity.

The role emphasizes supplier performance, procurement delivery, and transitioning transactional work to support

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading strategic procurement initiatives.
• Proven ability to develop global sourcing strategies.
• Knowledge of risk management in supply chains.
• Experience supporting bids and proposals.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic procurement leadership across multiple commodity groups.
• Develop sourcing strategies aligned to category management.
• Evaluate commercial and supply chain risk.
• Negotiate contractual arrangements and provide analytical decision support.
• Oversee procurement delivery and supplier performance.
• Support transition of transactional activities to procurement support functions.

Skills

Strategic procurement

Category management

Supplier relationship management

Bid support

Negotiation

Analytical decision support

Procurement leadership

Job description

To provide strategic procurement leadership across multiple commodity groups, engineered products and specialist services, supporting the organisation's commercial, operational and bid objectives.

The role is responsible for developing sourcing strategies aligned to global category management strategies, evaluating commercial and supply chain risk, supporting bids and proposals, negotiating contractual and commercial arrangements, and providing analytical decision support to improve profitability, supply continuity and competitive advantage.

The Senior Buyer role is focused on commercially significant procurement activities, supplier strategy, risk management and bid support. The role retains accountability for procurement delivery, purchase order management and supplier performance whilst supporting the ongoing development and transition of appropriate transactional and administrative procurement activities to designated procurement support functions. The primary focus shall remain on activities that directly influence profitability, risk reduction, supply assurance and business competitiveness.