Purchasing Manager

Purchasing Manager

Location: Cheltenham, UK (On-site)

Benefits

27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, On-site gym, Free on-site parking, Salary sacrifice schemes for Technology and Electric Vehicles.

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days' paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts' portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan.

Role Overview

Are you a strategic and people-focused procurement leader ready to shape the future of supply chain excellence? We're looking for a UK Purchasing Manager to lead and develop a high-performing team of Buyers, Supplier Quality, and Supplier Development professionals. Based at our Runnings Road site in Cheltenham, you'll play a pivotal role in aligning UK sourcing strategies with global objectives, driving supplier performance, and ensuring operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing a team of direct and indirect reports, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Acting as the escalation point for purchasing-related issues and ensuring timely, effective resolutions.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with Planning, Engineering, Quality, and other departments to drive early engagement and strategic sourcing.
• Developing and maintaining UK Supply strategies aligned with global procurement, sustainability, and risk mitigation goals.
• Managing supplier relationships to ensure performance across Quality, Cost, Delivery, Innovation, and Sustainability (QCDIS).
• Supporting New Product Introduction (NPI) and Value Stream activities through early supplier involvement.
• Driving cost reduction, supplier sustainability, and process improvement initiatives.
• Overseeing tendering, cost analysis, and sourcing decisions to ensure best value for money.
• Ensuring continuity of supply and resolving procurement execution issues.

Previous Experience

• Proven leadership in Purchasing or Supply Chain Management within a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ideally in a regulated industry (e.g., aerospace, defence, pharmaceuticals).
• Strong background in cost control, budget management, tendering, and contract negotiation.
• Experience managing supplier relationships across direct and indirect categories.
• A track record of delivering purchasing-related change and project management initiatives.
• Exposure to international procurement operations and global supplier networks.
• Stakeholder management and influencing at multiple organisational levels.

Qualifications & Success Criteria

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, coaching, and team development capabilities.
• Be a confident communicator and negotiator, able to influence across all levels.
• Apply structured problem-solving and decision-making skills under pressure.
• Show a proactive, improvement-focused mindset with the resilience to manage multiple priorities.
• Possess a solid understanding of purchasing systems, manufacturing processes, and technical drawings.
• Be proficient in Microsoft Office and ERP/MRP systems.
• Be willing and able to travel within the UK and internationally as required.

Company Overview

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world.

Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare.

Inclusion & Commitment

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.

For more on our inclusion commitments, visit our inclusion commitments .