Buyer - Healthcare

BOOTS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking an experienced Sourcing professional at Buyer level to join their Global Sourcing Team. This role involves driving margin, managing vendor relationships, and developing a healthcare portfolio. The ideal candidate should possess strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills, with a track record in retail sourcing. The position requires participation in key category projects, ensuring supplier performance, and involves national and international travel opportunities.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced parental leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Relevant Sourcing experience developing new goods for retail products.
• Experience in a fast-paced retail buying environment.
• Experience managing negotiations for spend categories >$5 million.

Responsibilities

• Developing own label healthcare portfolio.
• Drive margin for the retailer.
• Manage vendor relationships and supplier performance.

Skills

Sourcing experience

Stakeholder management

Negotiation skills

Commercial acumen

Job description

Overview

Contract: 8 Mths Secondment/FTC

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

A wonderful opportunity for an experienced Sourcing professional operating at Buyer level to join our Global Sourcing Team within the Boots Brand Sourcing division in Nottingham. The role involves some national and international travel.

About the opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to support the Buying Manager to deliver an exciting project as we look to move key Boots Brand Healthcare lines to an alternative source whilst ensuring we have a customer offering for the consumer at all times whilst the transfer is taking place. This is an ideal opportunity for a buyer who is looking to stretch themselves with opportunity to manage stakeholders at a more senior levels and take responsibility for managing key areas of work. You will report into a Buying Manager who has a broader area of responsibility who is part of the EU Sourcing Team with responsibility for suppliers operating in that region.

Key responsibilities

• Developing our own label healthcare portfolio.
• Accountable for driving margin for the retailer.
• Support the management of on-going and new vendor relationships and supplier performance.
• Ensure regular supplier meetings takes place to set up new relationships for ongoing success and to ensure streams of work remain on track.
• Supports business recommendations through performing the initial research, analysis and providing clear input in the selection of suppliers in collaboration with a cross-functional team.
• Support the development and optimisation of a supply base which enables differentiated New Product Development (NPD)
• Alongside the alternative source project, you will have category projects to manage, working alongside your fellow Buyers in a similar role.

About you

• You will have relevant Sourcing experience developing new goods for retail products and maintaining KPI's on an established portfolio of products.
• Experience within a retail buying, fast paced environment.
• A strong cross functional player with excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing negotiations for spend categories >$5m million dollars ideally on a global level.
• Experience implementing category sourcing strategies with a proven track record of delivering exceptional results.
• Knowledge of the strategic sourcing/procurement lifecycle and procurement best practices.
• Strong commercial acumen and negotiator.
• Experience working with Profit & Loss (P&L) concepts, such as revenue, COGS, gross profit margin, operating expenses and cash flow with a view to identifying and delivering profit enhancement opportunities.

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

What’s next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.