Senior Strategic Buyer

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solution (CWS) is one way we support our clients. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On behalf of our globally respected client who develop cutting-edge technologies that deliver clean, safe and competitive solutions to meet the planet's vital power needs we are looking for a Senior Strategic
Buyer for a 12 month contract based in Bristol
.

This role is a hybrid position in which you would be required to be office based 3 days per week and working from home 2 days per week (37 hours per week).

Purpose of the Senior Strategic Buyer:

• Support the development and execution of integrated category strategies within Group Procurement, focusing on complex indirect engineering spend
• Lead strategic sourcing, supplier engagement, and risk mitigation to ensure continuity of supply, performance, and capability delivery
• Act as a key procurement partner across high-value technical projects, driving commercially sound and compliant purchasing decisions

As a Senior Strategic Buyer, you will:

• Execute category strategies through end-to-end strategic sourcing, supplier selection, contracting, and in-contract supplier management
• Lead procurement activity across complex indirect categories, including test beds, facilities, and capability development projects
• Analyse and mitigate supply chain risks, identifying gaps and working cross-functionally to secure funding and solutions
• Collaborate with engineering and project teams on high-specification procurement initiatives with strong technical input
• Ensure all procurement activity aligns with governance, regulatory, and export control requirements
• Support strategic procurement initiatives, focusing on how purchasing is executed rather than transactional buying
• Travel within the UK to engage with internal stakeholders and suppliers as required

The skills you’ll need as a Senior Strategic Buyer:

• Proven experience in procurement and sourcing, with a strong focus on strategic procurement, negotiation and in-contract management.
• Background in technical or engineering environments (e.g. defence, aerospace, automotive, oil & gas, or other high-spec industries).
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance technical and business requirements.
• Experience analysing and mitigating supply chain risks within complex projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to work across multidisciplinary, global teams.
• Familiarity with procurement and supply chain processes, systems, and governance frameworks.

Wewill only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this Senior Strategic Buyer position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business