Senior Buyer

London, England, United Kingdom

4/9/2025

Overall Summary

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

Join the Close Brothers Third Party Management Team where you will support the Category Leads and Partner with relevant business areas across the Bank to provide procurement support in line with the Third Party Management (TPM) framework. Working as part of the Central Operations team our ideal team member will have previous experience in optimising commercial value and reducing the risks associated with third party relationships throughout the full lifecycle with excellent experience in managing procurement projects.

Responsibilities

• Effectively manage relevant stakeholders across the organisation, acting in the capacity of a trusted advisor.
• Lead and be accountable for the commercial negotiations on third party engagements.
• Lead procurement activity (RfX) in the assessment, selection and delivery of Third Party solutions to the Bank.
• Support effective supplier relationship management across nominated third party engagements to ensure commercial value is optimised across the full lifecycle.
• Support Category Leads in executing established sourcing strategies using best practice methodologies working with business and finance to identify, measure and track value delivery.
• Work within the Third Party Management framework at all times to ensure prudent and practical management of risk whilst always striving to meet the needs of business stakeholders.
• Work closely with Third Party Monitoring colleagues where ongoing assurance activities are undertaken on relevant suppliers
• Commit to an ethos of continuous improvement, always seeking feedback (both structured and anecdotal) to identify opportunities to enhance the TPM framework and working practices.
  
  
  
  

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE/ARE:

• A recognised as a procurement professional
• Experience in meeting the needs of diverse and niche business units
• Experience in negotiating contracts (Legal and Commercial) with Tier 1 providers.
• Strong knowledge of Soft Services Procurement.
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills
• Good influencing skills at senior levels to influence acceptance of a new way of working
  
  
  
  

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAVE/ARE:

• Experience of managing a procurement category in at least one blue-chip organisation that has crossed functional and business boundaries.
• Experience in delivering large scale transformational projects
• Experience in the Financial Services sector
• Demonstrable and applied knowledge of contract law.
• strong Knowledge of regulations related Financial Service (SySc8, Material Outsourcing, GDPR etc)
  
  
  
  

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at [email protected] or request a call back.

About Us

At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.

Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.

To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers

To find out more about life at Close Brothers:

https://www.closebrothers.com/life-close-brothers#374017299-899295541

To find out more about our benefits:

https://www.closebrothers.com/employee-benefits

To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment:

Our Responsibility - Diversity and inclusion ¦ Close Brothers Group