Indirect Buyer

A great opportunity has arisen for an Indirect Buyer to join an established Purchasing Team based in Fareham, Hampshire, for a client who are world leaders within marine electronics.

This role of Indirect Buyer is responsible for managing procurement of indirect goods and services across all sites worldwide.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities for the Indirect Buyer :

• Analyse spend data available from SAP and data warehouse and develop short and long term plans to bring strategic procurement best practices to the sourcing and management of this spend.


• Build relationships with managers responsible for the spend and identify how procurement can best support their needs.


• Drive the adoption of Ivalua e-procurement tools for indirect spend across the organisation


• Engage with stakeholders to facilitate sourcing and tendering processes, negotiate contract terms, on boarding of suppliers and supplier relationship management.


• Identify and delivery cost reductions and value for money improvement for indirect spend categories.


• Develop and implement processes for selecting, evaluating and approving new indirect suppliers


• Manage value improvement and service quality improvement activities


• Develop process for monitoring supplier performance and drive supplier continuous improvement

Job Qualifications for the Indirect Buyer :

• Experience working across a wide variety of indirect categories including those mentioned above.


• Brilliant communication skills to build rapport with necessary stakeholders to quickly identify and implement short and long term plans


• Analytically inclined and able to develop methods for analysing raw spend data to identify opportunities and drive supplier improvement


• Skilled at working with ERP systems and e-commerce- SAP and Ivalua experience an advantage


• Negotiation and relationship management


• Organised with a high attention to detail

The position has a comprehensive and challenging remit with career enhancement opportunities in a company that has continued to achieved year on year growth.