Purchasing Business Partner

Purchasing Business Partner (757946)

Salary range: £37,694 - £46,049

FTE: 1.0 (35 hours per week)

Term: Open

Closing date: 7 November 2025

The post holder will be responsible for understanding requirements, risks, and business needs and thereafter using negotiation skills to achieve commercially beneficial, robust agreements on behalf of the University. This role breaks down into the following main activities:

1. Responsible for analysing, directing, and ongoing reviewing of the spend across the University’s Faculties and Professional Services Departments.

2. Promote the effective use of Contracts, Framework Agreements, and effective purchase-to-pay activity, directing spend accordingly.

3. Build and develop trusted relationships with external suppliers and internal stakeholders and support their purchasing needs through the development of robust contracts/agreements.

4. Represent the Procurement Team within Faculties and Professional Services Departments.

In order to effectively carry out the duties of this post, the post holder will be expected to have expertise in establishing commercial contracts, data analysis techniques, and relationship management.

The post holder must gain a clear understanding of the University’s Corporate Plan and Procurement Strategy and be involved in promoting the role of procurement and, more specifically, purchasing as an enabler of delivering these corporate outcomes. This post will have an instrumental role in achieving savings targets, additional compliance and providing guidance and support to stakeholders across the University.

In this brand new post, the post holder will be embedded in Depts to quickly establish and effect the changes required, providing both on the shoulder and hands on support to stakeholders.

This truly is an exciting role that will deliver visible, tangible savings and benefits to the University's purchasing activity.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on 27 November 2025.

For informal enquiries, please contact Derek McLean, Head of Procurement Governance & Reporting at derek.mclean@strath.ac.uk

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