We\'re looking for a Procurement Partner to join our team and help us build innovative, resilient, and value-driven supplier partnerships. This role is key in shaping and delivering the Procurement strategy for allocated categories (Lab Automation and Sequencing Library Preparation), in collaboration with key stakeholders and the broader Institute community.
Overview
As a Procurement Partner, you\'ll be a trusted advisor to stakeholders across the Institute. Combining market knowledge, commercial insight, and strategic thinking, you\'ll influence outcomes and deliver best value. You\'ll work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and be aware of a fast-moving marketplace, identifying both opportunities and risks. Building and maintaining supplier relationships will be central to your success, ensuring we create partnerships that drive innovation, resilience, and value for our science. You will also play a key role in developing commercial partnerships that enhance collaboration with industry, strengthen our supplier ecosystem, and unlock new opportunities for the Institute.
Responsibilities
* Develop, own and deliver category strategies for your allocated areas.
* Provide market intelligence and commercial analysis to inform decision-making.
* Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, fostering collaboration and innovation.
* Lead sourcing projects and complex supplier negotiations, ensuring best value and risk management.
* Act as a strategic partner to stakeholders, influencing plans and priorities at senior level.
* Contribute to the leadership of the Procurement function, including line managing Category Buyer(s) as appropriate.
* Continuously improve ways of working, embedding governance, efficiency, and pragmatic solutions.
You will be an experienced procurement professional with strong category management expertise and the ability to engage confidently with stakeholders of all levels. With a natural ability to connect market insight to organisational strategy, you will combine commercial acumen with excellent communication skills and a proactive, solutions-focused approach.
Essential Skills
* Proven track record in procurement/category management, ideally in scientific or technical categories.
* Ability to develop strong market knowledge and turn insight into strategy.
* Experienced in supplier relationship management, with a focus on collaboration and value creation.
* Expert negotiator, able to manage complex commercial discussions.
* Ability to analyse data, extract insight, and communicate recommendations effectively.
* Proven organisational skills, able to manage multiple projects and priorities.
* Knowledge of contractual terms and ability to manage commercial risks.
* Self-motivated, adaptable, and confident working in a dynamic environment.
* Strong and collaborative working relationships with relevant stakeholders and project team members.
* Solution and output orientated with a willingness to take on challenges.
* Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills.
At the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Procurement plays a critical role in enabling world-leading science. We manage a diverse and complex supplier base, ensuring resilience, value, and innovation across a wide range of categories. Our focus is on building strategic partnerships and applying market insight to anticipate risks, unlock opportunities, and deliver solutions that support our scientific mission. We go beyond cost savings - shaping categories, strengthening supplier relationships, and providing the commercial expertise that helps turn pioneering research into reality.
Working Style
Hybrid Working at Wellcome Sanger: We recognise that there are many benefits to Hybrid Working; including an improved work-life balance, with more focused time, as well as the ability to organise working time so that collaborative opportunities and team discussions are facilitated on campus. The hybrid working arrangement will vary for different roles and teams. The nature of your role and the type of work you do will determine if a hybrid working arrangement is possible.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world. We have supportive networks (LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers, Disability and Race Equity) to bring people together to share experiences, offer development opportunities and raise awareness. We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work. We are committed to an inclusive culture at Sanger Institute and will consider all individuals without discrimination.
Benefits
We deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme. We recognise the importance of good health and a healthier lifestyle and are committed to reducing work-related stress. The Sanger Institute became a signatory of the International Technician Commitment initiative in March 2018. The Technician Commitment aims to empower and ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research, across all disciplines.
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