Indirect Buyer

Overview

As an Indirect Procurement Buyer at McLaren Automotive, you will support strategic sourcing across key indirect spend areas to enable business growth. You will collaborate with Category Leads and Procurement Managers to deliver value, ensure supply continuity, and uphold commercial governance. You’ll contribute to supplier management and category strategies while complying with internal processes. This role offers opportunities to impact cross-functional procurement activities within a high-performance, innovative environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance benefit

Responsibilities

• Support procurement activities across key indirect spend areas
• Contribute to strategic sourcing initiatives to enable business growth
• Work across Construction, Facilities Management, Capex, and Professional Services categories
• Assist Category Leads and Procurement Managers to deliver value and ensure supply continuity
• Support supplier management across the procurement lifecycle and implement category strategies
• Ensure compliance with internal processes and policies

Key requirements

• Understanding of procurement processes and market dynamics
• Awareness of commercial considerations and risk management principles
• Developing negotiation and commercial terms
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise effectively
• Strong attention to detail and analytical capability
• Good communication and cross-team collaboration
• Team player with collaborative and proactive approach
• Eager to learn and develop within procurement
• Structured, organised, and detail-oriented
• Outcome-focused with proactive problem-solving
• Ability to work under guidance while owning defined tasks
• Builds effective working relationships with teams and stakeholders

• strong communication
• collaboration
• proactiveness
• negotiation
• commercial terms
• procurement processes

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