Engineering

Buyer - Strategic Procurement - Gas and Chemicals

Senior Buyer – Strategic Procurement – Manchester Office – £50,000 to £59,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

Are you a procurement professional with a strategic mindset rather than transactional?

Do you enjoy challenging long-standing ways of working and influencing senior stakeholders?

Can you see opportunity where others see fixed supplier relationships?

Are you commercially curious enough to rethink how markets, geographies and competitors interact?

Take your career to the next level with a global, engineering-led organisation operating at scale across industrial gases, chemicals and advanced process industries. This is a senior procurement role for someone who thinks beyond purchasing and sees supply strategy as a commercial lever.

This role is not about raising POs or maintaining the status quo. It is about challenging how things are done, reshaping supplier dynamics, and creating value through intelligent, strategic sourcing.

What you NEED

Proven experience in a senior procurement or category role with strategic accountability

Strong commercial acumen with the ability to think beyond cost and into value, risk and opportunity

Experience developing and delivering category or sourcing strategies aligned to business objectives

Confidence influencing internal stakeholders who may be resistant to change

Ability to operate effectively in complex, ambiguous environments

Strong negotiation and supplier relationship management capability

Degree educated preferred, or equivalent experience in a commercial or procurement environment

What you will get in return

Salary of £50,000 to £59,000 depending on experience

Performance-related bonus

Strong pension and benefits package

Excellent long-term career progression within a global organisation

Access to structured development, training and future leadership opportunities

A role with genuine influence and visibility at senior level

What you will be doing

Acting as a true business partner, developing and delivering sourcing and category strategies aligned to wider commercial goals

Identifying opportunities to reshape supplier landscapes, including where markets are traditionally insular or geographically constrained

Challenging established procurement models and proposing creative, commercially sound alternatives

Leading supplier relationship management, building collaborative partnerships that deliver long-term value

Negotiating contracts, pricing and terms to secure competitive advantage while managing supply risk

Mapping supplier markets and competitive dynamics to unlock new sourcing opportunities

Driving continuous improvement initiatives across cost, service, resilience and total cost of ownership

Presenting new ideas clearly and credibly to senior internal stakeholders to gain buy-in and influence change

Staying close to market trends, regulatory requirements and emerging technologies within industrial and process-driven sectors

Nice to Haves

Experience within industrial gases, chemicals, process engineering, energy or adjacent heavy industry sectors

Exposure to multinational or matrix organisations

Experience influencing cross-functional teams at senior level

Company Profile

Our client is a global, safety-critical organisation operating across industrial gases, chemicals and advanced engineering sectors. They are known for scale, technical excellence and long-term investment in their people. This is an environment where new ideas are welcomed, challenge is encouraged, and progression is driven by impact rather than tenure.

This role offers genuinely limitless progression for someone who wants to shape strategy, influence decision-making and be recognised as a commercial leader rather than a functional buyer.

INDWIN

Our clients and their customers come from diverse backgrounds and so do we. We hire our people from various walks of life, each of whom make our company stronger with their talent, uniqueness, and expertise. This is what makes our company special; if you want to help us grow and take this ethos to our clients, then we cannot wait to collaborate with you!

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