Senior Buyer

Location: Hybrid out of Manchester, Birmingham or Leeds

Permanent
Competitive + Flexible Benefits

Summary

We're looking for an experienced and commercially focused Senior Buyer to join our Procurement team, supporting the delivery of major engineering and construction projects across NG Bailey.

This is a hands-on role where you'll lead procurement activities from strategy through to delivery, working closely with project teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure materials and subcontract packages are secured at the best overall value. You'll play a key role in driving supply chain performance, delivering cost savings, mitigating risk, and ensuring our projects have the right partners in place to achieve successful outcomes.

If you have a strong background in construction or building services procurement, excellent negotiation skills, and enjoy building collaborative supplier relationships, we'd love to hear from you.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:

 

Procurement & Supply Chain Management

• Lead procurement activities across assigned projects and business areas.
• Develop and implement effective procurement strategies that support project and business objectives.
• Manage competitive tendering processes, supplier negotiations, e-auctions, and package procurement.
• Lead supplier performance reviews and implement improvement plans where required.
• Ensure suppliers operate in line with agreed service level agreements and contractual commitments.
• Identify opportunities for volume aggregation, package bundling, and value engineering initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic supply chain partners.

 

Project Delivery Support

• Produce and manage procurement plans and procurement schedules.
• Work closely with project teams to ensure procurement requirements align with programme and commercial objectives.
• Lead regular procurement review meetings, recording actions and driving timely completion.
• Support project mobilisation through the development of supplier service level agreements and procurement targets.
• Provide procurement expertise and market intelligence throughout the project lifecycle.

 

Commercial & Financial Performance

• Establish and manage project procurement savings targets.
• Maintain procurement savings trackers and provide regular reporting to key stakeholders.
• Deliver measurable cost savings while maintaining quality, programme, and compliance requirements.
• Contribute procurement data and performance metrics to business dashboards and reports.

 

Work Winning Support

• Support bid and work-winning teams with procurement expertise, market intelligence, and supply chain insights.
• Provide procurement data and advice to help develop competitive and deliverable proposals.

 

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Support the development and profile of the procurement function across the business.
• Foster collaborative working relationships with project teams, suppliers, and key stakeholders.
• Provide guidance and support to colleagues and any direct reports where applicable.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and shared success.

 

Health, Safety & Quality

• Champion health, safety, and environmental best practice in all procurement activities.
• Ensure compliance with company processes, procedures, and quality standards.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across procurement systems and ways of working.

 

What we're looking for:

Essential

• Significant experience in an operational buying or procurement role.
• Experience procuring both high-volume and high-value material and subcontract packages.
• Previous procurement experience within a building services, engineering, MEP, or construction environment.
• Strong negotiation and supplier management skills.
• Excellent commercial awareness and financial acumen.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and procurement/business systems.

 

Desirable

• CIPS qualification or working towards professional membership.
• Experience supporting major construction or engineering projects.
• Experience using e-auctions and strategic sourcing tools.
• Knowledge of supplier performance management methodologies.

 

Why Join Us?

At NG Bailey, you'll be part of one of the UK's leading independent engineering and services businesses, delivering some of the country's most exciting and complex projects.

Our people make the difference, and we're committed to supporting your development, wellbeing, and career progression.

 

Benefits

We're always evolving our benefits to ensure we're attracting and retaining great people. Some of what you can expect includes:

• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible benefits including Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Travel Insurance, Cycle to Work Scheme and Give As You Earn
• Ongoing professional development and career progression opportunities

 

 

Next Steps: 

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.  

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met. 

 

About Us: 

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training. 

 

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies. 

 

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be. 

 

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