Procurement Assistant

PhotoJenic Life; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare solutions provider in Birmingham is seeking a Procurement Assistant to support sourcing and supplier management. This role requires customer-facing experience, excellent communication skills, and proactive relationship-building capabilities. The position offers a competitive salary, essential and voluntary benefits, and a hybrid working model that allows for up to two days of work-from-home.

Benefits

Pension

Critical illness cover

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Hybrid working

HTE Me Time for wellbeing activities

Volunteering leave

Dental Insurance

Technology at home

Private GP consultations

Private healthcare

Holiday buy/sell

Travel season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating a process.
• Ability to learn product categories and interface with products/services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct product comparisons and derive value for healthcare providers.
• Execute strategies using supplier knowledge and mitigate risks.
• Develop category strategy with manager support.
• Oversee supplier relationships and participate in reviews.
• Build and nurture effective customer relationships.

Skills

Customer facing experience

Confident with customers and suppliers

Proactive

Administration experience

Good organisational capabilities

Excellent oral skills

Excellent written skills

Developed interpersonal skills

Job description

Opportunity

Procurement Assistant (Internally Sourcing Support, Level 2).

Approach to a career in procurement with a world’s most ethical company.

About Us

We offer solutions to manage spend effectively and improve performance, working with both public and private healthcare and non-healthcare providers to optimise the use of products and services to identify cost‑saving opportunities and best value. As part of the HCA Healthcare Group, we were named in Ethispheres World’s Most Ethical Companies for the 14th time.

Why Us?

Committed to the care and improvement of human life. Comprehensive onboarding and hands‑on professional development through training programs.

DUTIES (included, but not limited to)

Category Knowledge

• Product comparisons between supplier offerings and impact on healthcare providers in deriving value through conversion opportunities.

Supplier Knowledge

• Uses supplier knowledge to execute strategies, create leverage, and mitigate risks.

Strategy Development, Validation and Risk Mitigation

• Develops category strategy with manager support, seeks guidance for risk issues, and agrees on risk mitigation strategies.

Sourcing Process

• Presents category strategies and final awards to internal stakeholders for review and discussion, prior to validation by members.
• Undertakes pre‑assessment of award scenarios to inform sourcing strategies for assigned categories.
• Utilises procurement process knowledge to determine appropriate procurement approaches to deliver value.
• Demonstrates aptitude to learn product categories and how end users interface with the products/services.

Supplier and Customer Relationship Management

Supplier

• Oversees supplier relationship during the sourcing process, participates in supplier business reviews, and reviews new products/technologies/services as they arise.

Customer

• Builds and nurtures effective customer relationships through frequent interactions and engagement activities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Customer facing experience.
• Confident with customers and suppliers.
• Proactive.
• Administration experience.
• Experience of coordinating a process.
• Good organisational and task‑oriented capabilities.
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills.
• Developed interpersonal skills to work in a high‑profile, fast‑paced team environment.

What We Offer

Salary Range: Competitive Salary.

Core Benefits

• Pension.
• Critical illness cover.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working (up to 2 days working from home).
• HTE Me Time – block up to two hours per month for wellbeing activities.
• Volunteering leave.

Voluntary Benefits

• Dental Insurance.
• Technology at home.
• Private GP consultations.
• Private healthcare.
• Holiday buy/sell.
• Travel season ticket loan.

If you think this role is for you, please apply now!