Purchasing Manager

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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…