• Vacancy ID:
    602
  • Closing Date: Closing Date:
    07 October 2025
  • All LocationsAll Locations:
    Reading
  • All TeamsAll Teams:
    Finance & Business Services
  • Advertising SalarySalary
    £31,000 - £36,255 per annum+excellent benefits
  • Contract TypeContract Type:
    Permanent
  • Directorate:
    Finance and Business Services
  • Hours Per WeekHours Per Week:
    35
  • About The Role

  • At Guide Dogs, we’re driven by a mission to help people with sight loss live the life they choose. As our Procurement Buyer – Community & Trading, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our Community Fundraising and Trading teams to create product ranges that not only resonate with supporters but also generate profit to fund our life-changing services.

     

    In this dynamic role, you’ll research consumer trends, analyse sales data, and monitor competitors to identify popular products that align with our brand and values. You’ll source and evaluate suppliers, negotiate legally compliant contracts, and select products based on price, quality, and lead times to ensure profitability and stock availability.

     

    You’ll manage inventory effectively, ensuring timely reordering and stock control, while delivering a high volume of tactical procurement activities such as quotes, tenders, and market testing. Your work will help us achieve best value and, where possible, generate cash savings for the organisation.

     

    You’ll be responsible for raising purchase orders and ensuring requisitions are correctly allocated to contracts and supplier catalogues. Working closely with the Head of Procurement, Strategic Procurement Business Partner for Fundraising, Marketing, Digital & Innovation, and the Head of Fundraising Products, you’ll help deliver the procurement pipeline and support colleagues with transactional and administrative tasks as needed.

     

    If you’re ready to combine your procurement expertise with a passion for purpose, and want to help maximise the impact of every product and pound, we’d love to hear from you.

  • About Us

  • How to apply 

    Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page.

     

    If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

     

    As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions as part of this application process, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.

     

    If you want to know more about the teams who work at Guide Dogs, you can find it on our Careers Page

     

    Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

     

    Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. 

     

    As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud, whenever possible, to offer an interview to all candidates that meet our selection criteria, and who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident interview commitment. For more details, visit our careers site.

     

    If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

     

    Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work.

     

    Safeguarding

     

    Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

    At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.

     

    Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

     

    For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.

     

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