Senior Buyer
Key details
- Location
- Rosyth, United Kingdom
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Senior
- Job type
- Full-time
- Function
- Finance & Accounting
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 22h ago
Skills
About the role
To provide strategic procurement leadership across multiple commodity groups, engineered products and specialist services, supporting the organisation’s commercial, operational and bid objectives.
The role is responsible for developing sourcing strategies aligned to global category management strategies, evaluating commercial and supply chain risk, supporting bids and proposals, negotiating contractual and commercial arrangements, and providing analytical decision support to improve profitability, supply continuity and competitive advantage.
The Senior Buyer role is focused on commercially significant procurement activities, supplier strategy, risk management and bid support. The role retains accountability for procurement delivery, purchase order management and supplier performance whilst supporting the ongoing development and transition of appropriate transactional and administrative procurement activities to designated procurement support functions. The primary focus shall remain on activities that directly influence profitability, risk reduction, supply assurance and business competitiveness.
Support Bids & Proposals activities through development of sourcing strategies, commercial evaluations and supply market intelligence.
Review customer contractual requirements and identify procurement, commercial and supply chain risks associated with proposed work scopes.
Interpret contractual flow-down requirements and ensure appropriate supplier obligations, compliance requirements and risk mitigation measures are incorporated into sourcing strategies and procurement documentation.
Conduct supplier and procurement risk assessments using probability and impact methodologies and support development of mitigation plans.
Quantify commercial exposure using methodologies such as risk-adjusted cost modelling, DARIO assessments and Expected Monetary Value (EMV) analysis where appropriate.
Ensure procurement activities comply with company policies, contractual frameworks, and applicable regulatory requirements, while acting as a trusted commercial partner to internal stakeholders across operations, engineering, and finance.
Demonstrate strong business acumen with the ability to understand market dynamics, anticipate industry trends, and translate strategic objectives into actionable plans.
Support supply chain strategies and initiatives that contribute towards global goals and objectives.
Demonstrate strong analytical skills with the ability to access and interpret commodity market data (e.g., London Metal Exchange (LME), Foreign exchange (FX), COMEX, FRED etc.) for demand planning, supplier negotiations, and production scheduling.
Deliver year-on-year cost reduction and value improvement initiatives against project budgets in line with procedures and KPIs.
Develop, lead and manage procurement activities for project-specific materials and safety stock requirements.
Forecast long lead-time procurement requirements and communicate demand forecasts to suppliers to ensure business requirements can be met whilst identifying and mitigating supply chain risks.
Maintain fixed pricing schedules, maximise long-term agreements and ensure global requirements are considered.
Actively support the development of less experienced team members through mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing, contributing to capability uplift, consistency of execution, and overall procurement performance.
Support stage gate reviews as required.
Lead supplier selection and negotiations, including terms and conditions, Incoterms, payment terms, pricing and service levels.
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