Senior Buyer

Description This; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in the UK is seeking a Senior Buyer to enhance procurement efficiency and deliver sustainable value. In this pivotal role, you will manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, and support sourcing activities while promoting innovative approaches. Candidates should have strong procurement experience and be adept at building relationships and adapting to market changes. The position allows for hybrid working, balancing home and office collaboration across various UK locations.

Qualifications

• Proven procurement experience in strategic sourcing and supplier management.
• Ability to negotiate contracts balancing cost, quality, and risk.
• Experience in building strong relationships and influence over stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead sourcing activities and ensure compliance with policies.
• Develop and manage supplier relationships and negotiate contracts.
• Analyze market trends and identify innovative opportunities.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Contract negotiation

Supplier management

Commercial acumen

Collaboration

Resilience

Job description

Nationwide’s procurement function is undergoing a significant and successful transformation, ensuring we deliver the best possible outcomes for NBS. Our operating model combines category alignment with strong business partnering, focused on achieving business and member value.

We are seeking a Senior Buyer with proven procurement experience to help drive greater cost efficiency and deliver sustainable value through an effective and engaged supply base. This is a pivotal role for a professional who want to make a real impact in a fast-moving, forward-thinking environment.

As a Senior Buyer, you’ll play a key role in supporting and leading sourcing activities across defined categories, ensuring compliance with policies while introducing innovative approaches to deliver value.

You’ll develop and manage supplier relationships, negotiating contracts that balance cost, quality, and risk, while supporting Nationwide’s sustainability and ethical sourcing goals. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you’ll understand requirements, influence decisions, and deliver outcomes aligned to strategic objectives.

You’ll also analyse market trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to leverage innovation and mitigate risks in a rapidly changing environment, while driving continuous improvement and challenging traditional thinking.

You’ll already be a procurement professional with experience in strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, and supplier management. You understand the importance of building strong relationships, working at pace, and adapting to market changes. You’ll bring commercial acumen, resilience, and a collaborative mindset, ensuring compliance while delivering creative solutions.

This role offers the opportunity to work in a transformational procurement function, where your expertise will help shape the future of how the business engages with its supply base. If you’re passionate about delivering value, influencing change, and making a difference to Nationwide, we’d love to hear from you.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you’ll be located at our nearest regional hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our office sites. This is anticipated to be monthly in either our Swindon, London or Glasgow offices. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.

If you’re a colleague on long term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.