Senior Buyer

Overview

As a Senior Buyer, you will deliver high‑impact procurement solutions across complex defence and engineering programmes. You will act as a key partner to Programme and Project teams, leading sourcing activities, driving value, and strengthening supplier performance across multiple procurement projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement activities across multiple projects to deliver value, performance, and efficiency.
• Develop and implement supply chain strategies for defined packages of work.
• Build and manage strong supplier relationships to ensure quality and delivery excellence.
• Drive operational excellence through reporting, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to support programme objectives and commercial outcomes.
• Ensure the role is performed full‑time (37 hours per week) with hybrid working arrangements.

Experience & Qualifications

• Proven experience in a procurement or supply chain role, ideally within defence, aerospace, or engineering.
• Experience delivering supply chain strategies and identifying value and cost optimisation opportunities.
• Demonstrated expertise in supplier relationship management and performance improvement.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across programme teams.
• Understanding of procurement processes within complex project environments.
• MCIPS desirable but not essential.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain a Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of professional fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days of special paid leave.
• Holiday trading – the ability to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from the annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid day per year to undertake volunteering.
• Flexible working options.
• A dynamic working environment.

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