Senior Procurement Buyer

Senior Procurement Buyer – Professional Services

📍 Location: Manchester (Hybrid – 2 days in office)

📅 Contract: 12 months (Maternity Cover) – Starting July 2026 (handover period available)

📌 IR35 Status: Inside IR35

💰 Rate: Competitive hourly rate

The Opportunity

Belcan Workforce Solutions is recruiting for a Senior Procurement Buyer to join a well-established Procurement & Supply Chain team, supporting a diverse portfolio of engineering and infrastructure projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of professional services procurement (sub-consultancy) across both bid and project delivery phases. You’ll play a key role in shaping procurement strategies, enhancing supplier performance, and ensuring robust governance across complex, high-value programmes.

The Senior Procurement Buyer will be working across high-profile sectors including nuclear, defence, power, and life sciences, with real scope to influence commercial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end procurement of professional services (sub-consultancy agreements) across projects and bids
• Draft, negotiate, and administer contracts in collaboration with legal and commercial teams - NEC4 essential
• Develop and manage supplier relationships, including onboarding, performance management, and compliance
• Provide market insight and cost intelligence to support bids and project delivery
• Ensure procurement activities align with governance standards, policies, and best practice
• Support the development and implementation of procurement strategies at project and business level

About You

You’ll be an experienced procurement professional with a track record in professional services procurement, ideally within engineering, construction or a similar project-led environment.

Key Experience & Skills

• Experience managing professional services / consultancy procurement and contracts
• Strong understanding of the UK construction and engineering market
• Confidence in contract drafting, negotiation, and administration
• Working knowledge of NEC contracts (particularly NEC4 PSC)
• Ability to balance stakeholder engagement with governance and compliance
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Strong communication skills with the confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders
• MCIPS (or working towards)
• COINS experience desirable
• Experience with engineering and construction or related project-led environment

Why Apply?

• Work across complex, high-impact projects in regulated sectors
• Play a hands-on, commercially influential role
• Gain exposure to strategic procurement and contract management
• Join a collaborative and experienced procurement function

✅ Apply now through Belcan Workforce Solutions to take the next step in your procurement career.