Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics
Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics
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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 thats building a healthier nation one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes well do whatever it takes to look after the UKs wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.
As a Strategic Senior Buyer youll 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.
Youll 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 youll 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.
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work feeling healthy happy and valued. Thats why weve 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 whats 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 its a good idea to apply right away to ensure youre considered for this role.
Apply today It starts with you.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
