Buyer - Professional Services and Marketing

The Opportunity: Buyer – Professional Services & Marketing

About the role:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join JCB’s fast paced, high performing Purchasing team in a role with real visibility and influence. As Buyer for Professional Services & Marketing, you’ll manage a varied and exciting supplier portfolio spanning events & exhibitions, consultancy, legal, HR, training and more. This is a strategic role where you’ll lead sourcing activity, shape category strategies, and build strong commercial partnerships that support both UK and global operations. You’ll be trusted to make decisions that matter, drive value, and help steer the business forward.

If you enjoy variety, autonomy, and the chance to work closely with senior stakeholders across the business, this role offers the perfect platform to grow your procurement career at an iconic global brand.

What you’ll be doing day to day:

• Own and lead procurement activity across Professional Services and Marketing, from strategy through to delivery.

• Drive supplier performance, challenging on cost, service, lead times and innovation while ensuring quality and reliability.

• Negotiate and manage contracts, securing strong commercial outcomes and managing renewals to maximise long term value.

• Deliver strategic projects, supporting leadership on cost reduction, process improvement and longer term planning.

• Manage the supply base, maintaining strong market intelligence and acting as Lead Buyer for your categories.

• Collaborate across the business, working closely with IT, Finance, HR, Engineering, Events & Marketing teams to deliver successful outcomes.

This will be suited to you if…

• You have proven experience in procurement, ideally within professional services and or Marketing.

• You’ve got strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

• You’re analytical and commercially aware

• You have the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

• CIPS qualification (or working towards) is desirable but not essential.

What happens next?

Ordinarily, our Resourcing Team reviews and shortlists CVs. If shortlisted, you’ll speak to one of our Recruiters to discuss the role further. Our interview process usually consists of an initial team’s interview followed by an in-person interview. We’ll keep in touch throughout the process but if you have any questions, please get in touch at recruitment@jcb.com 

What’s in it for you?

This is your chance to join a company that values expertise not only in rewards but also in real employee care. At JCB you don’t just get a competitive salary, 33 days’ holiday and access to our company pension—you can also use our onsite gym, in-house doctor and dentist. We have an ULEV car scheme available for our employees too. Then there’s the JCB Rewards Hub, which gives you discounts with high street retailers. Feel like biking to work? There’s our Cycle to Work Scheme.

We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

We’re committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair and inclusive. If you face any accessibility challenges with your online application and require additional support, you have the option of speaking to a member of our Recruitment Team who can support you to complete an application in an alternative format. If you would benefit from this support, please email recruitment@jcb.com, and a member of the team will be in touch.