Indirect Buyer – Commercial Services

Indirect Buyer – Commercial Services
Permanent | Hybrid Working – Woking or Bicester
Circa £50,000 + 10% Bonus & Benefits Package

We’re recruiting an Indirect Buyer to join a high-performance engineering and manufacturing business, supporting a broad range of commercial services and indirect procurement activities.
Reporting to the Senior Category Manager, you’ll play an important role in managing sourcing projects, developing supplier relationships and delivering strong commercial outcomes across areas including Events, Brand and Marketing Services, and Corporate Services.
This is a varied role suited to someone with strong negotiation skills, a commercial mindset and experience managing contracts and suppliers across a range of indirect categories.

• Support the development and delivery of category and sourcing strategies across Commercial Services.
• Lead sourcing activities across Events and Experiential, Brand and Marketing Services, Corporate Services and other indirect categories.
• Manage the full procurement lifecycle, from supplier identification and evaluation through to negotiation, contract award and ongoing contract management.
• Lead supplier negotiations to secure competitive pricing, value for money and favourable commercial terms.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders, including Legal, Finance and IT, as well as wider business teams.
• Work closely with service owners to understand requirements, manage demand and identify opportunities for cost savings and improved supplier performance.
• Apply strong contract management practices, ensuring budgets, contractual obligations, changes and commercial risks are effectively controlled.
• Support supplier due diligence, risk assessments and procurement governance, ensuring sourcing activities are compliant and commercially robust.
• Monitor market developments and identify opportunities to improve procurement processes, supplier performance and commercial value.

• Proven experience in indirect procurement, buying or commercial sourcing, ideally across Events, Brand and Marketing Services, Corporate Services or similar categories.
• Strong negotiation skills, with a track record of securing favourable commercial outcomes and delivering cost savings.
• Experience managing contracts and supplier relationships throughout the procurement lifecycle.
• Good understanding of contractual terms and conditions, with any legal or contract-related experience particularly beneficial.
• Experience working with internal stakeholders such as Legal, Finance and IT.
• Confident managing multiple sourcing projects and competing priorities.
• Strong commercial awareness, analytical skills and the ability to assess supplier risk.
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to influence stakeholders and build effective working relationships across the business.

Ideally based in Woking, Surrey, with Bicester, Oxfordshire also considered.
Hybrid working is available, with 3 days onsite and 2 days working remotely.

• Circa £50,000 basic salary
• 10% annual bonus
• Additional benefits package
• Permanent position