Job title - R&D Strategic Lead Buyer
Location – Malvern – Hybrid – 2 Days per week on site
Role benefits – Competitive Salary + 25 days holiday+ Bonus + Pension and more
Partners in Discovery. Together, we achieve more.
About the role
Are you passionate about building sustainable, efficient supply chains that support cutting-edge innovation?
As our Strategic Lead Buyer you’ll be the key link between R&D and Operations, ensuring that our products are designed with supply chain excellence in mind from day one.
You’ll lead procurement strategies, onboard suppliers, and ensure that our Physical Centre of Excellence projects are delivered with robust, cost-effective, and scalable supply chains

What you will bring to the role:

• Leading, developing, documenting and executing procurement strategic plans which drive, cost effective, efficient and quality material and services in support of the company’s products and solutions.
• Develop and oversee an effective strategic sourcing and supplier management program

with a strong emphasis on quality, cost, supply and innovates approaches and

partnerships.

• Identifying and on-boarding new suppliers as needed aligned to prototype delivery or new product offerings ensuring healthy forward-looking partnerships across the commodity platforms.
• Leads complex contract negotiations and manages contractual agreements.
• Maximise part quality and supplier reliability throughout the product design process and

delivery to Operations.

• Manufacturability: Ensure components are manufacturable, robust and cost engineered,

with a clear managed asset register (Tooling), maintenance agreements in place for

Operations deployment.

• Purchasing Excellence – Setting the standard ensuring continuity on transfers to

Operations

• Work with all internal stakeholders to deliver smoothly from R&D to Operations and

onwards to Service

About you:

• You have a business degree or equivalent experience, ideally with a CIPS qualification.
• You bring 7+ years of experience in procurement or strategic sourcing, ideally in a technical or R&D environment.
• You’re experienced in supplier management, contract negotiation, and cost engineering.
• You understand the full supply chain lifecycle—from prototype to production.
• You’re confident working with cross-functional teams and managing complex transitions from R&D to Operations.
• You’re skilled in SAP (desirable) and have a strong grasp of quality and compliance standards.
• You’re a clear communicator who can simplify complex supply chain challenges.
• You’re proactive, collaborative, and driven to deliver results.

Why you should join us:

• Be a part of an ambitious, fast-growing, international company with a friendly and inclusive culture.
• Drive growth within a leading global organisation whose purpose is to work with our customers, to make the world a better place
• Be a key member of our team in our amazing offices
• Gym discounts
• Volunteering days and much more

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About us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps.
Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies.
We are the toolmakers for the world’s most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.
Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure.
Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide- range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery. Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity.
SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments.
We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.
We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support.
Part of Spectris plc, a publicly traded FTSE 250 company, Spectris combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world. Precision is at the heart of what we do – our leading, high-tech instruments and software equip our customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive.
Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics & SciAps
Your Partners in Discovery
Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps, part of the Spectris Group, are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Changing the world isn’t something you can do on your own, or with a single way of thinking; it takes a wide collection of experiences, stories, knowledge, and expertise. We encourage applications from underrepresented individuals and people with diverse backgrounds. Although we always select the most qualified applicant for each role and make all decisions without regard to race, sex, age, or any other protected class, we are an inclusive, equal opportunity organization that prizes diversity. Your unique perspective is important to us

• Leading, developing, documenting and executing procurement strategic plans which drive, cost effective, efficient and quality material and services in support of the company’s products and solutions.
• Develop and oversee an effective strategic sourcing and supplier management progra