Category Buyer

**Up to £45,000 (depending on experience) + bonus and benefits**

We offer two bonuses (personal performance paid quarterly and company performance paid annually) with private healthcare and dental cover and a generous pension scheme.

Ready to elevate your career in procurement?

You’ll be at the forefront of making sure the GNFR Procurement team achieves the best benefits from supplier relationships, helping stakeholders across the business to define requirements, sourcing suppliers, and managing the relationships.

You’ll work collaboratively with Category teams and Regional Head’s of Procurement to deliver on category strategies and execute tactical procurement activities. Getting involved with a variety of different tasks from translating stakeholder requirements into actionable goals, guiding the selection process, and negotiating agreements.

Flexibility is key for the role as you’ll be performing ad-hoc sourcing activities and monitoring external information sources to uncover market insight. Your keen eye for analysis will uncover opportunities to unlock further value for the business as you dive into spending and performance data. But that doesn’t stop there, you’ll be the procurement champion, advocating across the business, and growing our influence and credibility with stakeholders.

It’s not just about strategy and analysis, your ability to build rapport with stakeholders, colleagues, and suppliers as well as your clear communication will be essential in driving collaboration and success. Your keen commercial aptitude, experience in procurement, knowledge of contractual law, and being a trusted negotiator, will help you shine in this role making a real impact.