Buyer

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  • Ref:
    81067
  • Location:
    Birmingham
  • Employment:
    Full time

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Chloe Smailes

chloe.smailes@mitie.com

+44 116 261 5017

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Buyer 

Birmingham - Full Time 

We're looking for a proactive and commercially minded Buyer to join our Procurement team, supporting the development and execution of category strategies across Business and Soft Services. You'll play a key role in sourcing, supplier management, and delivering value through cost-effective, high-quality supply chain solutions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to influence strategic procurement decisions, drive innovation, and build strong relationships across internal and external stakeholders.

What are the main responsibilities? 

You will lead and support strategic procurement initiatives across key spend areas as well as manage complex, high-value sourcing activities and negotiations through building strong relationships with internal stakeholders. You will also:

  • Identify and onboard competitive suppliers to drive value and innovation.
  • Deliver cost reduction opportunities aligned with business goals.
  • Resolve supplier performance issues and implement continuous improvement plans.
  • Develop and execute category strategies that meet evolving business needs.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders across departments.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to understand and challenge business requirements.
  • Support delivery of annual targets across cost, quality, reliability, and service.
  • Implement and maintain supplier management programs for strategic and preferred suppliers.
  • Monitor supplier performance and identify areas for improvement.
  • Review and enhance current processes to ensure efficiency and compliance.

What are we looking for?

You will have a good level of procurement experience and buying experience within the FM industry. You will hold excellent communication, negotiation, and analytical skills as well as the ability to work creatively and analytically. 

  • Strong organisational and time management abilities.
  • Proven experience in stakeholder management and strategy implementation.
  • Conflict resolution and problem-solving capabilities.
  • CIPS qualification preferred but not essential.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

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Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Chloe Smailes at chloe.smailes@mitie.com.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

 
 

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