Senior Direct Spend Buyer - Strategic Sourcing & Contracts

Tekever; Swindon; Híbrido; GBP 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension contribution match (up to 10%)

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Private Dental care

Employee Assistance Programme

Hybrid working model

Descripción de la vacante

TEKEVER in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Buyer to lead source-to-contract activity for direct spend, taking ownership of a key area and shaping commercially intelligent strategies. You will review current processes, bring ideas, and help define future procurement and supply chain direction, working with engineering, operations and finance.

Experience in engineering, manufacturing, energy, or industrial sectors is valued, and you will join a multidisciplinary, mission-driven team

Formación

• Experience of direct procurement categories such as raw materials, components, engineered parts, capital equipment or subcontract services.
• Experience developing and executing category or sourcing strategies and running competitive tender processes.
• Experience leading commercial negotiations and agreeing contracts for complex or high value projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to constructively challenge requirements.
• Experience of using ERP/MRP systems.
• An understanding of supplier and supply chain risk, including continuity of supply, financial stability, quality and contractual considerations.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy environment.
• Experience managing and developing procurement team members.
• Most importantly, a proactive, inquisitive and critical thinking approach, with the confidence to use initiative.

Responsabilidades

• Challenge, clarify and help improve internal specifications and requirements to enable efficient sourcing.
• Lead on commercial negotiations with existing and prospective suppliers, securing outcomes that balance commercial value with quality service or long term strategic benefit.
• Draft, negotiate and finalise supplier contracts, framework agreements and SLAs, ensuring terms protect commercial value and mitigate risk.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for direct spend categories to ensure the most efficient procurement of goods and services at the best total cost of ownership, while safeguarding service, quality, operational continuity and compliance.
• Manage and develop procurement team members (direct reports), providing coaching, mentoring and performance management
• Own supplier relationships, monitor performance and resolve supply or delivery issues.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders across engineering, operations, manufacturing, planning, quality and finance to align sourcing activity with business needs.
• Champion continuous improvement across the function by identifying and delivering opportunities to enhance cost, quality and delivery performance and embedding procurement best practice.

Conocimientos

Direct procurement

Negotiations

ERP/MRP

Stakeholder management

Category strategy

Supplier relationships

Team leadership

Risk management

Sourcing strategies

Tendering processes

Descripción del empleo

TEKEVER in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Buyer to lead source-to-contract activity for direct spend, taking ownership of a key area and shaping commercially intelligent strategies. You will review current processes, bring ideas, and help define future procurement and supply chain direction, working with engineering, operations and finance.

Experience in engineering, manufacturing, energy, or industrial sectors is valued, and you will join a multidisciplinary, mission-driven team