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Strategic Senior Buyer- Orthopaedics
Apply locations Epsom time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: August 5, 2025 (11 days left to apply) job requisition id JR0087276
Strategic Senior Buyer- Orthopaedics
National Travel with Hybrid Working (Epsom based) | Procurement | Permanent | Full-Time
Competitive salary available, depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.
As a Strategic Senior Buyer, you’ll bring experience of working closely with internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome, a basic knowledge of contract law and experience of working within cross functional unit teams to deliver procurement projects. You will have first-class communication skills, a strategic sourcing and category management expertise and be commercially focused with a proven ability of considering total cost of ownership and delivering added value.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring products and services are competitively sourced and cost effective as well as maintaining supplier relationships from a commercial perspective, controlling costs, quality, ongoing service enhancements and risk management.
As a Strategic Senior Buyer, you’ll be responsible for:
* Category management of Orthopaedics across the hospital business
* Ensuring related clinical products and services are competitively sourced
* Maintaining supplier relationships from a commercial perspective
* Identifying and delivering cost saving initiatives
* Maintaining quality of service throughout
* Supporting ongoing service enhancements
* Management of risk across areas of responsibility
To succeed as our Clinical Senior Buyer, you will need to demonstrate:
* Strategic sourcing and category management expertise within a healthcare setting
* Excellent communication and presentation skills
* Experienced negotiator; proficient in drawing upon and developing fact-based negotiation plans
* Experience of working closely with and influencing internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome
* Basic knowledge of contract law; proficient at drafting commercial contracts
* Commercially focused with proven ability of considering total cost of ownership and delivering added value
* Relevant experience of working within cross functional/business unit teams to deliver procurement projects and drive savings across the organisation
* Experience with medical surgical consumables, devices, orthopaedics or alike will be highly beneficial.
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We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
Apply today… It starts with you.
About Us
Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit.
We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services.
As a charity, we invest all our income back in to our services, in to pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly, we invest in to our flagship programmes, which have been developed to help people who could normally afford or access our services.
Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.
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