Job Description:
Senior Vendor Manager
Hybrid working with up to 4 days per week working from home
Bupa Place (Salford Quays M50 3SP)
Permanent
Fantastic benefits including 10% management bonus scheme, Private healthcare and enhanced pension contributions
Full time 37.5 hours per week
We make health happen
At Bupa, we’re not just a health insurer and provider – we’re a team of people driven by a shared purpose: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus.
As a Senior Vendor Manager, you’ll play a key role in making health happen by ensuring our technology partnerships deliver real value. You’ll help us build strong, strategic relationships with our suppliers – making sure we get the best from them, and they get the best from us. This is your chance to shape how we work with our vendors, influence key decisions, and help us deliver outstanding technology solutions across Bupa.
How you’ll help us make health happen
In this role, you’ll:
1. Lead vendor management for a specific IT category and act as business partner to Technology tower leads e.g. UK Insurance, Health Services, Dental etc.
2. Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key technology suppliers
3. Work with Procurement and Tech Leadership to select the right vendors for the right tasks
4. Develop and maintain supplier strategies for strategic vendors
5. Support contract negotiations and renewals
6. Collaborate with internal teams to align market unit vendor activity with Bupa’s technology strategy
7. Identify Innovation opportunities and drive efficiencies across supplier engagements
8. Ensure strategic vendor governance is in place to drive innovation, growth and delivery against the Bupa strategy
9. Maintain a forward view of renewals and new vendor engagements
10. Use data and insights to inform decisions and improve vendor delivery
Key skills/qualifications needed for this role
We’re looking for someone who:
11. Has experience managing third-party suppliers, ideally in IT
12. Brings strong IT contract skills and commercial acumen (IACCM/WCC or CIPS certification is a plus)
13. Understands regulatory requirements and governance
14. Can manage multiple projects and priorities with ease
15. Has excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills
16. Uses data to drive decisions and improve outcomes
17. Is confident holding senior leaders to account and influencing at all levels
18. Acts with integrity and builds trust in every interaction
19. Has a collaborative mindset and thrives in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
20. 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
21. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
22. An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
23. Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
24. Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.