Buyer, Business
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Business
Supply Chain / Intl. Trade
What you’ll be doing
In this role, you’ll work with Senior Buyers and Category Sourcing Managers to deliver procurement and supply chain strategies for your assigned spend category, ensuring alignment with business objectives. As you develop in the role, you’ll enable value creation by driving supplier performance through category plans, development initiatives, and robust governance frameworks. Managing commercial contract risk will be a key part of your remit, alongside negotiating, drafting, and overseeing simple contracts within your subcategory—or contributing to more complex deals in partnership with Category Sourcing Managers.
You’ll also ensure the timely maintenance and execution of Nationwide’s contract pipeline, keeping everything on track to deliver maximum value and compliance.
- Basic procurement & supply chain skills
- Knowledge of procurement and supply chain management (category management, contract negotiation and management, supplier selection and management)
- Good interpersonal skills including effective communications, relationships building and stakeholder management
- Ability to plan and prioritise effectively to deliver a demanding workload
- Great analytical skills for conducting spend analysis, cost modelling, market and supplier analysis, risk analysis and data interpretation and visualisation
- Job Identification 1795
- Apply Before 02/09/2026, 11:55 PM
- Locations Nationwide House, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN38 1NW
, GB Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 6EP
, GB Belfast City Hall, Belfast, Antrim, BT1 5AG
, GB 47/49 Queen Street, Cardiff, CF10 2AS
, GB Kings Park Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 6NW
, GB 92/96 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, G2 8BQ
, GB Masterton House, Dunfermline, Fife Region, KY11 8NX
, GB 1 Threadneedle Street, London, Greater London, EC2R 8AY
, GB 2 Spring Gardens, Manchester, M2 1EE
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