Senior Purchasing Manager

Our people are the heart of our business. As the world’s largest provider of thermal processing services, Bodycote employs thousands of highly skilled staff around the globe, including some of the best engineers, scientists, and technicians in the industry. Come join our team!

Due to the nature of our business and a heavy industrial market, Bodycote deems this position to be safety-sensitive.

The Senior Purchasing Manager, North America leads procurement across Bodycote’s North American operations, providing strategic direction and driving cost competitiveness, supplier performance and supply security. The role is responsible for advancing operational excellence and procurement standardization across the region, supporting effective and consistent procurement practices.

Operating within a highly technical and energy-intensive manufacturing environment, the role supports Bodycote’s network of heat treatment and specialist thermal processing facilities. It has regional accountability for North America while working closely with the global procurement organization to support strategic procurement initiatives and deliver consistency across the wider business.

The role acts as the procurement leader for North America and partners with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, EHS, Finance and Regional Leadership Teams to deliver sustainable value and support Bodycote’s long-term growth and profitability.

It also supports the Global Director Strategic Procurement in the delivery of key regional and global strategic objectives, procurement projects and initiatives.

• Lead procurement activities across all North American Bodycote facilities.
• Serve as the primary procurement business partner to Operations, Regional Leadership, Engineering, and Finance.
• Execute regional procurement strategies aligned with global sourcing objectives.
• Develop and maintain procurement roadmaps supporting operational excellence and EBITDA improvement.
• Ensure procurement compliance, governance, and policy adherence across all sites.
• Support acquisition integrations, facility consolidations, and strategic business initiatives.

• Lead sourcing activities for direct and indirect spend categories across North America.
• Develop sourcing strategies leveraging regional and global purchasing volumes.
• Identify and execute cost reduction, supplier consolidation, standardization, and supply chain optimization initiatives.
• Conduct market intelligence, supplier assessments, benchmarking, and risk analysis.
• Manage competitive tender processes.
• Develop data-driven sourcing recommendations and business cases.
• Maintain a robust sourcing pipeline delivering measurable savings and operational improvements.

• Develop and manage relationships with strategic North American suppliers.
• Lead supplier business reviews and performance evaluations.
• Establish supplier scorecards measuring quality, delivery, service, innovation, sustainability, and cost performance.
• Drive supplier development and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Act as the escalation point for commercial supplier issues.
• Identify alternative suppliers and dual-source opportunities to improve supply security and competitiveness.

• Lead complex commercial negotiations with regional and global suppliers.
• Negotiate pricing, service levels, rebates, warranty provisions, productivity improvements, and payment terms.
• Develop and manage regional and multi-site supply agreements.
• Ensure contracts appropriately mitigate commercial and operational risks.
• Monitor agreement compliance and realization of negotiated…