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Senior Buyer
Birmingham or London - Full Time
We're looking for a proactive and collaborative Senior Buyer to support our Category Manager and Procurement Business Partners in the Mechanical and Electrical category. In this role, you'll help develop and deliver category strategies, lead sourcing and ensure best‑in‑class supplier performance across your category areas.
You won't have direct reports, but you'll often work within cross‑functional teams and take the lead on key workstreams.
What are the main responsibilities?
You will work closely within the M&E category to purchase all required materials and products to Support the development and delivery of category strategies. You will work to gather spend, volume and service data to prepare for eRFx and eAuctions as well as them including supplier selection, negotiation and contracting. You'll also:
What are we looking for?
You will be an experienced Buyer or Purchasers ideally within Hard Services, though the category background is trainable. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work on a varied workload with different size of financial values and understand the commercials of procurement. You'll also:
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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.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 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.
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