Procurement Specialist

Medtronic; Watford; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare technology company seeks a strategic sourcing professional for its Procurement and Supplier Management team. In this role, you'll manage supplier relationships and sourcing strategies for medical products, supporting UK-based cath labs and theatres. Ideal candidates will have strong data analytics skills and experience in a healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in contract management/sourcing in the healthcare sector.
• Previous experience in a large or multinational company or hospital.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Manage demands of stakeholders to ensure needs are met.
• Establish sourcing strategies for optimal pricing and supply.
• Maintain supplier relationships to ensure continuity of supply.

Skills

Excel

Data analytics

Communication

Project management

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, science, or healthcare

Job description

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) team members are seasoned professionals with in-depth knowledge of the healthcare value chain, as well as breadth of experience across multiple disciplines. They partner with hospital management teams and payers to drive complex transformational change, implement innovative growth strategies, streamline patient-focused care pathways and optimize operations.

As part of the Procurement and Supplier Management (PSM) team within IHS Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) you will focus primarily on the UK market, supporting the sourcing of medical products and services for IHS Managed Cath Labs and Theatres. In this role, you will manage strategic sourcing and deal with operational issues, working closely with the hospitals we support as well as a selection of IHS’s strategic suppliers, including those that directly compete with Medtronic in the medical device business. This is a remote role, based in the UK, with the ability to work from home and a willingness to travel (approximately 25%), typically in the London area but could also include international travel.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Manage demands of stakeholders and ensure that needs are consistently met (e.g., on-time go-live of new accounts)
• Knows how to disseminate information and provide training related to purchasing and supply management policies and procedures to other groups within Medtronic
• Maintain and analyze pricing, negotiating them
• Establish sourcing strategies for each market, balancing an optimal mix of the best price, switching to consignment, negotiating returns policies, securing allocation of stock etc.
• Management of supplier relationships – ensuring continuity of supply for our IHS managed service accounts
• As a client facing role provide a professional and informative point of contact for all issues concerning the sourcing of goods and services
• Consult with customers to discuss clinical strategy and how materials management service can support department’s strategic direction

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Strong excel skills for data analytics /data analytics
• Bachelor’s degree in business, science, and/or healthcare field
• Contract management/sourcing experience, ideally in the healthcare sector
• Previous work experience (at least few years) in a large or multinational company/ hospital (ideally in a Cath lab or Theatre environment) with strong focus on the data analysis in the procurement area
• Strong verbal and written communications skills (in English) with the ability to liaise, influence and negotiate effectively at all levels
• Project management and influencing to achieve results

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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