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📍 Location: Birmingham | 💼 Full-Time | 🌐 Mitie
We are seeking a proactive and commercially minded Senior Buyer – Power & Grid to join our Procurement team. Reporting to the Head of Procurement, you will play a key role in developing and executing category strategies, driving supplier performance, and delivering cost-effective, high-quality supply chain solutions.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced procurement professional to join a fast-paced, forward-thinking business, acting as a trusted commercial partner to both internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
Lead and support strategic procurement activities, including supplier negotiations and contract management.
Identify and deliver cost reduction opportunities and explore new supply sources.
Develop and implement category strategies aligned with business needs.
Manage supplier performance to ensure quality, value, and compliance.
Build strong relationships with key internal stakeholders (Procurement, Finance, Project Leads, Audit, Business Partners).
Implement and maintain effective supplier management programmes.
Represent the company in interactions with third-party suppliers and industry groups.
3–5 years' procurement experience, ideally within Power, Energy, or Utilities.
Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Proven ability to resolve conflicts and build long-term supplier partnerships.
Excellent analytical, organisational, and commercial acumen.
CIPS qualification preferred.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience required.
Health & Safety:
Always follow company Health & Safety policies and procedures.
Use PPE correctly and report hazards promptly.
Flag any training needs relating to safety.
Information Security:
Adhere to Mitie's information security policies.
Report any security risks or incidents without delay.
Be part of a leading procurement function at one of the UK's largest facilities and services businesses.
Opportunity to shape category strategies and work on high-profile projects.
Competitive salary, benefits, and career development opportunities.
Collaborative culture where your expertise and input are valued.
👉 If you're an experienced procurement professional ready to take on an exciting challenge in Power & Grid, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and join Mitie in driving smarter, safer, and more sustainable supply chain solutions.
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.
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.
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