Category Buyer – Fleet & Travel

The Role

As a Category Buyer – Fleet & Travel, you’ll join an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees, and become a key part of our Indirect Procurement Centre of Excellence. You will help shape and implement strategic procurement solutions for Fleet and Travel categories across Imperial’s global operations.

This is a unique opportunity to support the Fleet & Travel Category Manager in delivering commercial value, mitigating risks, and ensuring high performance of supplier relationships in an international environment. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and procurement partners across central functions, factories, and markets to ensure seamless, cost-effective, and sustainable travel and fleet operations.

If you are a commercially savvy professional with strong analytical and stakeholder management skills, this role offers the chance to make a real impact and grow within a dynamic and purpose-driven business.

Principle Accountabilities

• Own the operational and strategic performance of key international travel and fleet partners, including regular business reviews, performance reporting, and proactive risk mitigation.
• Support the deployment of category strategy across markets in Europe, ensuring harmonised implementation of tools, policies, and vendor contracts.
• Manage day-to-day supplier relationships, lead weekly review calls, resolve issues, and ensure quality of service and delivery from outsourced providers.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across Finance, P&C, IT, and Group Security to align on priorities, manage expectations, and balance regional needs.
• Conduct benchmarking, market analysis, and supplier research to identify innovation opportunities and ensure Imperial is leveraging best-in-class solutions.
• Track and report on cost savings, service KPIs, and project delivery, supporting functional performance goals and procurement transformation targets.

Skills and Experience Required

• Proven experience in procurement, including exposure to strategic sourcing, supplier management, and contract negotiation.
• Practical experience in fleet and/or travel category management, ideally in a multinational environment, working with a network of suppliers and outsourced service providers.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential; additional languages are a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to navigate cross-functional priorities across countries and departments.
• High level of commercial acumen, with the ability to analyse cost data, monitor supplier KPIs, and drive performance improvements.
• Proactive, collaborative, and detail-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills and a focus on service quality, compliance, and cost effectiveness.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.