Category Buyer - Data, Analytics, Digital and Automation Category

Category Buyer - Data, Analytics, Digital and Automation Category

Location: Norwich or York based (50% hybrid working)

Salary: circa £30,000

This is a great job for someone who is looking to build a career in Procurement and commercial management. You'll enjoy analysing information, working with suppliers, and helping deliver better value for the business. If you're curious about supply markets and want to make a real impact in a collaborative team, we'd love to hear from you.

A bit about the job:

You'll join Aviva's Procurement team, helping us manage third-party spend and deliver better value for the business and our customers. You'll support sourcing activities, analyse supplier and market information, and provide insights that inform commercial decisions. Working closely with suppliers and internal stakeholders, you'll help ensure procurement processes run effectively and support our sustainability ambitions. You'll build expertise in supplier performance, spend analysis, and market trends. Your work will contribute to commercial success while helping us make it click for our customers.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to assess value for money and support business decision-making.
• Good analytical skills, including the ability to interpret complex business and financial data.
• Interest in procurement, supplier markets, and the commercial factors that influence them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Degree-level qualification, or equivalent transferrable experience, and experience in a business-to-business environment would be beneficial.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary: circa £30,000 - depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications

• Bonus opportunity - 8% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. Don’t let it be a barrier to your application. And if you’re in a job share, feel free to apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week – combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you need a different way of applying, please send an email to Balazs Palcsek at balazs.palcsek@aviva.com