Strategic Buyer

Eurofins Uk Nsc; Wolverhampton; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurofins UK NSC is seeking a proactive Purchasing professional to provide centralized purchasing services across UK entities. You will deliver value through cost, quality, delivery and service improvements, analyse spend and formulate category strategies, and manage supplier relationships with a focus on cost savings and standardisation.

The role requires strong analytical, commercial, and project management skills, with experience in Coupa or SAP and proficiency in MS Office tools.

Qualifications

• Experience in a strategic purchasing role.
• Strong analytical and commercial skills with risk management.
• Energetic, can-do attitude delivering project outcomes.
• Proven project management including planning and governance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication to influence stakeholders.
• Customer-focused mindset aligned to priorities and operations.
• Experience managing supplier relationships and senior teams.
• Able to handle multiple projects and priorities.
• Knowledge of purchasing systems and procedures.
• Experience with Coupa or SAP is preferred.
• Proficient IT skills incl. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI.
• CIPS qualifications preferable but not essential.
• Full clean driving licence and car owner.

Responsibilities

• Deliver purchasing projects to improve cost, quality, delivery and service.
• Analyse spend and define category strategies for projects.
• Lead market and supplier analyses, tendering and benchmarking.
• Negotiate contracts and review supplier performance.
• Implement category plans meeting local and group needs.
• Provide professional purchasing service to labs and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with internal departments to follow purchasing policies.
• Drive cost savings on consumables, equipment and services.
• Standardise supplier base in collaboration with internal clients.
• Manage supplier relationships and contract conditions.
• Conduct site visits to review purchasing activity with stakeholders.
• Maintain supplier master files and pricing data.
• Perform other tasks as required by line manager.

Skills

Strategic purchasing

Analytical skills

Commercial awareness

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Organisational skills

IT literacy

Coupa

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Driving licence

Education

CIPS qualifications (preferable)

Tools

Coupa

SAP

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description

Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. Hybrid role. 37.5 Hours per week. Monday - Friday. 08:30 - 16:00.

Purpose of the post:

To provide purchasing services to the UK Eurofins businesses as part of a centralised purchasing department, within the scopes of operational excellence for all UK entities.

• Deliver purchasing projects which ensure value is added in terms of cost, quality, delivery and service.
• Analyse spend data and formulate a purchasing category strategy for specific projects. Plans are to include, but are not limited to:
  • market and supplier analysis
  • defining and approving purchasing strategy
  • executing through tender and benchmarking exercises
  • contract formulation and award.
  • conducting regular supplier contract negotiations and supplier performance reviews
• Implement the category strategy plans to achieve planned outcomes and in a way that meets the local and Group business needs.
• Deliver a professional and efficient Purchasing service to the labs and managing key stakeholders internally and suppliers externally.
• Liaise with internal departments to ensure an excellent level of service is provided whilst ensuring adherence to purchasing policies and procedures.
• Obtain significant cost savings on defined scope of consumables, equipment and services for Eurofins companies with increasing level of product quality, service and delivery.
• Drive standardization and rationalization of the product and supplier base, in close conjunction with your internal clients.
• Manage relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best contract conditions.
• Carry out site visits to review Purchasing Activity with business stakeholders as required.
• Maintain purchasing data base (supplier master files, item pricing files, etc).
• Carry out any other tasks as may be deemed necessary by the line manager.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a strategic purchasing role.
• Strong analytical, commercial, and problem-solving skills with experience evaluating options, managing risk, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• High energy, ‘can-do’ attitude with drive to deliver successful project outcomes and overcome challenges.
• Demonstrated project management capability, including planning, prioritisation, governance, stakeholder engagement, and delivery to agreed timelines.
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to engage, collaborate and influence.
• Customer and business-focused mindset, ensuring project objectives remain aligned to organisational priorities and operational needs.
• Experience managing internal and external stakeholder relationships, including suppliers, and senior leadership teams.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, workstreams, and competing priorities simultaneously.
• Good knowledge of purchasing systems and procedures.
• Experience with Coupa (preferable but not essential) or other purchasing systems (e.g.SAP).
• IT literacy with working knowledge of Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and PowerBi.
• CIPS qualifications preferable but not essential.
• Full clean driving licence and car owner.

Additional Information

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes
• Worldwide career opportunities
• We also have in place rewards recognising the great work our employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date

We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development!

Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!

Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!

We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/