Senior Buyer

Company Description

Foundation Personnel, a specialist recruitment partner to the geotechnical sector, is working with one of North America’s leading foundation specialist contractors to appoint a Senior Buyer.

Role Description

The Senior Buyer is responsible for planning and executing procurement activities for construction projects from pre-award through project execution and closeout.

Key responsibilities include

• Obtain supplier and service provider quotations and market pricing during the pre-award phase to support bid development and establish competitive cost estimates.
• Develop project procurement plans during pre-award and refine, implement, and manage them following project award.
• Collaborate with Project Management and Operations to ensure procurement activities align with project schedules, budgets, specifications, and priorities.
• Oversee the sourcing and procurement of project materials, equipment, and services, including requests for quotations (RFQs), bid evaluations, quote comparisons, negotiations, purchase orders, and delivery coordination.
• Negotiate pricing, lead times, payment terms, freight costs, and other commercial conditions to achieve the best overall value.
• Analyze spending across projects to identify opportunities to leverage purchasing volume, strengthen supplier relationships, and improve cost efficiencies.
• Develop and maintain strategic and preferred supplier relationships across key material, equipment, and service categories.
• Establish preferred pricing, rate structures, commercial agreements, and supplier arrangements that can be applied across multiple projects.
• Identify and implement opportunities for cost savings, cost avoidance, supplier consolidation, and improved commercial terms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive procurement, purchasing, or supply chain experience.
• Strong commercial judgment and negotiation, analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced, project-driven environment.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 applications.
• High level of proficiency with SAP Business One.

What's On Offer

• Competitive base salary plus a lucrative performance-based incentive compensation
• Health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits
• Opportunity to work on high-profile, complex projects.
• Clear growth path within a leading geotechnical contractor.