Overview
Indirect Buyer – Staffordshire
As an Indirect Buyer at AB Agri (Premier Nutrition), you will be central to managing our indirect spend and packaging portfolio to support our manufacturing operations from our Rugeley site.
You will be responsible for sourcing and managing suppliers across storage, haulage, services, MRO, and selected CAPEX projects, while overseeing contracts and ensuring project timelines and budgets are effectively managed.
What you’ll be doing
- Manage and develop our indirect spend portfolio, with a particular focus on packaging, storage, haulage, services, and MRO, ensuring value for money and robust supply.
- Support cost-saving initiatives and sourcing projects, from scoping requirements through to supplier selection, contract negotiation, and implementation.
- Manage packaging procurement as an ongoing responsibility, maintaining supplier relationships, contracts and pricing, and ensuring continuity of supply.
- Use procurement and MRP/ERP systems (such as P2P and related tools) to run sourcing events, manage contracts and suppliers, and maintain accurate, auditable records.
- Tackle complex indirect procurement challenges, helping to prioritise projects, improve processes and deliver on bold savings and performance targets.
What we’re looking for
- Ideally have spent 3 to 5 years working in indirect spend (e.g. services, storage, haulage, MRO, CAPEX, or other indirect categories) within manufacturing or a similar industrial environment.
- Skilled negotiation skills and a history of managing or supporting cost reduction initiatives, supplier contract management, and high‑value/strategic supplier relationships.
- Practical knowledge of managing and delivering procurement projects end‑to‑end, including sourcing, tendering, evaluating suppliers and implementing contracts to agreed timelines.
- Ability to coordinate effectively across multiple departments, demonstrating effective stakeholder management, relationship building and clear communication skills.
- Ready to engage in a new role with substantial savings and delivery expectations, making a constructive contribution to the overall procurement team and enhancing ongoing and future efforts.
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
