Senior Sourcing Team Leader – Commercial Excellence

BUPA Care Homes (CFCHomes); Salford; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% Management Bonus Scheme

Job summary

Bupa Care Homes (CFCHomes) in Salford Quays is hiring a Sourcing Team Manager to lead Buyers and Assistant Buyers. The role combines on-site days with hybrid working, overseeing procurement activity and ensuring category plans deliver value and compliance.

You’ll manage demand, capacity and supplier relations while driving governance and risk controls across sourcing, contracting and due-diligence processes. A 12-month fixed-term contract with a competitive bonus is offered.

Qualifications

• Lead, coach and develop Buyers and Assistant Buyers; set clear objectives and role accountabilities.
• Oversee sourcing activity including competitive tendering, negotiation and contracting.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop Buyers and Assistant Buyers; set clear objectives and role accountabilities; manage performance, wellbeing, absence, recruitment, onboarding, succession and capability development; establish effective team ways of working.
• Maintain a consolidated sourcing pipeline; allocate and reallocate work across category towers; review demand against capacity; monitor contract expiries, milestones, ageing and delivery risks; ensure priorities are progressed efficiently.
• Assure the quality of sourcing strategies, tendering, evaluation, negotiation and contracting; support delivery of validated value and savings; act as the escalation point for complex activity; intervene directly where commercial leadership is required.
• Ensure the team follows the six-step procurement process, relevant systems and approval requirements, supplier segmentation and due diligence, SARF governance, Delegation of Authority, contract approval and signature controls, and benefit-reporting requirements; elevate late engagement and non-compliance appropriately.
• Lead, coach, motivate and develop the team, creating clear accountability and a high-performance culture.

Skills

People leadership

Procurement strategy

Contract negotiation

Stakeholder management

Job description

Bupa Care Homes (CFCHomes) in Salford Quays is hiring a Sourcing Team Manager to lead Buyers and Assistant Buyers. The role combines on-site days with hybrid working, overseeing procurement activity and ensuring category plans deliver value and compliance.

You’ll manage demand, capacity and supplier relations while driving governance and risk controls across sourcing, contracting and due-diligence processes. A 12-month fixed-term contract with a competitive bonus is offered.