Overview
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.
Responsibilities
* 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
* 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
Benefits and culture
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. We offer a benefits package with fitness, lifestyle, health and wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
Apply and notices
If you like what you see, start your application now. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Apply today; it starts with you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MCIPS (Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply)
Experience
* 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
Disclosures
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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