Category Buyer

Overview

Manages £25M indirect spend, sourcing and supplier management across multiple categories.

Key Responsibilities

• supplier management
• contract management
• stakeholder alignment
• tender management
• category management
• process improvement

Tasks

-Build effective supplier relationships and ensure robust contract management and compliance -Partner with stakeholders across operations, finance, operations, IT, and other departments to align procurement efforts with business strategy -Lead tendering, contract negotiations, and supplier performance reviews -Manage indirect procurement spend across assigned categories -Support continuous improvement of procurement processes, tools, and reporting -Develop and implement sourcing strategies aligned with business needs and priorities -Deliver cost savings, risk reduction, and improved value across assigned indirect categories

Requirements

• stakeholder management
• negotiation
• cips
• procurement systems
• data analysis
• indirect procurement

What You Bring

-Confident engaging with senior stakeholders and influencing at all levels -Strong commercial and negotiation skills, with a results-oriented mindset -CIPS qualification (or working towards) is desirable -Proficient in procurement systems, data analysis, and contract management -Ability to work in a high-growth, fast-changing business and drive change where needed -Strong experience in indirect procurement, ideally within a multi-category, multi-supplier environment

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Benefits

-Buy as you earn (BAYE) share scheme -Lifestyle Discounts -Employee Assistance Programme -Cycle to work scheme -Our onsite parking includes free electric car charging points -Enhanced Parental Leave -Life assurance -Birthday holiday -Tech Save Scheme -Holiday Purchase -EV Car Leasing -Gym Scheme -Motor Save Scheme -Eye Care -Health Cash Plan

About Itm Power

-Headquartered in Sheffield, home to the world’s largest electrolyser factory, with additional sites in Germany. -Offers product families like NEPTUNE (2 MW), POSEIDON (20 MW) and TRIDENT stacks for projects across mobility, industry and power-to-X. -Delivered large-scale systems: a 24 MW unit to Linde, NEPTUNE units in Japan, and multi-hundred-MW deals across Europe. -Signed a collaboration in 2025 with Deutsche Bahn on sustainable transport, reflecting its growing infrastructure role.

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