Senior Technical Buyer

At Prodrive we believe there’s no limit to what can be achieved when the brightest minds come together. Joining one focused and driven team, you will challenge boundaries in order to change the game for our customers. We are the world’s leading independent motor sport company and the business behind some of the greatest names and achievements in motor sport over the last 40 years.

Our Advanced Technology business combines our pace and agility with free-thinking to deliver complex engineering solutions and specialist manufacturing programmes to the automotive, aerospace, marine, and defence sectors, accelerating the net zero journey for our customers.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Buyer to act as a senior technical authority, able to deliver complex, high-risk components and resolving critical supply challenges in potentially extreme time pressure environments. This role provides leadership through technical expertise, commercial judgement and calm decision making, ensuring programmes are protected from supply, quality and delivery risk.

• Lead procurement of complex, safety critical or high risk/high value technical components.
• Diagnose and resolve supply, quality or technical failures, often under extreme time pressure.
• Anticipate risks across the supply chain and intervene early to prevent disruption (quality cost or delivery timeline).
• Act as a trusted technical and commercial partner to senior engineering or rally raid/race programme stakeholders.
• Uphold the highest technical purchasing standards and expectations, and lead by example through the highest standards of business behaviour and capability.
• Maintain oversight of pricing, lead time, supplier commitments and invoice resolution for critical components.
• Ensure purchasing data accurately reflects technical, commercial and delivery reality.
• Coach and support buyers and technical buyers, raising overall team capability.

Our ideal candidate will have extensive experience in technical purchasing within motor sport or advanced engineering, with a high level of drawing literacy and specification interpretation capability. You will have a deep practical understanding of relevant manufacturing processes and constraints and be highly credible and trusted by engineers and suppliers. A strong working knowledge of ERP or purchasing systems in fast-paced technical environments is essential, along with proven experience delivering under extreme time pressure and ambiguity.

Decisive, composed and resilient under pressure, you will take accountability for difficult decisions and lead through expertise, judgement and example.

• An attractive salary which will grow in line with your ongoing development and impact
• 25 days holiday (which increases with long service) with an opportunity to purchase up to 15 extra days
• Training opportunities for continuing professional development
• Car and pension salary sacrifice schemes
• Paid time off for volunteering
• Consultations with our Fit 4 Life expert
• Social events throughout the year
• Exclusive company discounts
• Life assurance

At Prodrive we are committed to attracting and nurturing the best talent and creating an inclusive workplace. We value individual differences and diversity amongst all staff so that everyone has the widest opportunities to maximise their potential. We aim to ensure that no job applicant is placed at a disadvantage by practices or requirements which disproportionately impact protected groups and which are not justified by the demands of the job.

If you feel you are right for this role, we welcome your application.

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