Buyer/Procurement (Hybrid)
Posted 3 hours 36 minutes ago by Sanderson Recruitment Plc
Buyer - Financial Services (Hybrid)
Location: Birmingham, Hybrid (2 days on-site, 3 days remote)
Duration: 6 month Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000
Our client, a leading financial services company, is seeking a Buyer to step into an established Procurement team. In this role you will be influence spending decisions across multiple business areas, running sourcing activity, managing suppliers, and driving commercial value across indirect categories.
You will play a key role in delivering procurement, sourcing, and supplier management activity across a broad range of indirect spend categories.
Key responsibilities include:
Key responsibilities:- Supporting end-to-end procurement, from sourcing and tendering to supplier onboarding.
- Running your own lower-value tenders and assisting on complex sourcing projects.
- Working with stakeholders to define requirements and promote procurement best practice.
- Supporting contract negotiations with Procurement and Legal teams.
- Reviewing contracts to ensure commercial and risk alignment.
- Managing contract renewals and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
- Ensuring all work is compliant with internal procurement governance.
- Experience in procurement within a corporate or regulated environment; financial services exposure is ideal.
- Experience running RFPs/tenders and supporting negotiations.
- Strong stakeholder skills with confidence to influence and challenge.
- Solid commercial awareness and a value-driven mindset.
- Understanding of procurement governance.
- Exposure to indirect categories such as professional services, FM, IT, or similar.
- Broad category exposure and a fast-moving workload.
- Ideal for someone available immediately or at short notice.
Reasonable Adjustments:
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