Purchasing Manager

Before the detail, here's the challenge you'd help us solve. We build the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely, and the ecosystem a billion machines will run on in the future. Very few people in AI can say this. Every role here, whatever the team, plugs into that. Here’s what this particular role covers. Purchasing Manager 🛠️ About Our Purchasing Team Wayve’s Purchasing team helps the business scale by ensuring we have the right suppliers, commercial agreements, and procurement processes in place to support our global operations. As an Indirect Purchasing Manager , you’ll help shape how Wayve sources, manages, and optimizes indirect spend across areas including IT/SaaS, Marketing, People/HR, Facilities, and Security . You’ll work closely with teams across the business to identify the right suppliers, negotiate strong commercial terms, manage risk, and ensure our supplier relationships continue to deliver value as Wayve grows. This is an opportunity to have a direct impact on how we build a scalable, efficient, and commercially strong procurement function in a fast-moving global environment. 🧠 Your day-to-day You’ll own procurement activities across a broad range of indirect categories, partnering with internal stakeholders to understand their requirements and develop sourcing strategies that balance cost, quality, service, and risk . You’ll manage the end-to-end supplier and contract lifecycle — from identifying and evaluating suppliers through negotiation, contracting, onboarding, performance management, renewal, and escalation. You’ll work closely with Legal, Finance, HR/People, IT, Security, Facilities, and Marketing to ensure purchasing decisions align with business priorities and company policies. You’ll also help improve procurement processes, strengthen supplier governance, and use spend and performance data to identify opportunities for savings and greater efficiency. 🧩 What You’ll Be Working On Developing and executing indirect procurement and sourcing strategies aligned with business priorities and cost-efficiency targets. Managing sourcing activities across categories including IT/SaaS, Marketing, People/HR services, Facilities, Security, and other corporate services. Leading supplier identification, evaluation, competitive sourcing, and commercial negotiations. Owning supplier contracts from initial negotiation and drafting through execution, renewal, and ongoing compliance management. Negotiating and managing commercial agreements including MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, order forms, and supplier terms, in partnership with Legal. Building and maintaining strong relationships with global suppliers and monitoring performance, service quality, risk, and compliance. Managing contract renewals and identifying opportunities to improve commercial terms, consolidate suppliers, or reduce unnecessary spend. Acting as the key point of contact between suppliers and internal stakeholders for commercial issues, escalations, and performance concerns. Analyzing spend data, supplier KPIs, market trends, and commercial benchmarks to support sourcing decisions. Supporting budget planning and forecasting across indirect spend categories. Implementing and improving procurement best practices, including supplier scorecards, spend tracking, contract lifecycle management, and governance. Ensuring procurement activities comply with internal policies, ethical sourcing standards, and risk-management requirements. 🙌 You Should Apply If You have 5+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier management, or a related purchasing role. You have experience managing indirect spend categories, ideally including IT/SaaS, Marketing, Facilities, People/HR services, Security, or other corporate services. You have strong end-to-end supplier contract management experience, including negotiation, contract review, execution, renewals, and ongoing vendor management. You understand global procurement practices, supplier governanc…

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