Strategic Buyer

Eurofins Food Testing Belgium NV; Wolverhampton; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Worldwide career opportunities

Job summary

Eurofins Scientific is seeking a UK-based Strategic Purchasing professional to provide centralized purchasing services across the group. The role focuses on delivering cost savings, supplier negotiations, and category strategies for consumables, equipment and services.

You will liaise with internal departments, manage multiple projects, and drive standardization across suppliers to meet business needs. Hybrid role with 37.5 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Experience in a strategic purchasing role.
• Strong analytical, commercial and problem-solving skills with risk management.
• High energy with drive to deliver project outcomes.
• Proven project management including planning and governance.
• Effective verbal and written communication to influence stakeholders.
• Customer-focused mindset aligning objectives to priorities.
• Experience managing internal/external stakeholder relationships.
• Strong organisational skills for multiple projects.
• Good knowledge of purchasing systems and procedures.
• Experience with Coupa or SAP.
• IT literacy with Word/Excel/PowerPoint and PowerBi.
• CIPS qualifications preferable.
• Full clean driving licence and car owner.

Responsibilities

• Deliver purchasing projects to improve cost, quality, delivery and service.
• Analyse spend data and formulate category strategies for projects.
• Conduct market and supplier analyses.
• Define and approve purchasing strategies.
• Execute tenders and benchmarking exercises.
• Contract formulation and award.
• Negotiate supplier contracts and review performance.
• Implement category plans to meet business needs.
• Deliver professional purchasing services to labs and stakeholders.
• Liaise with internal departments to ensure service levels.
• Aim for significant cost savings on consumables, equipment and services.
• Drive standardization and rationalization of product and supplier base.
• Manage supplier relationships and negotiate contracts.
• Carry out site visits to review Purchasing activity with stakeholders.
• Carry out other tasks as required by line manager.

Skills

Strategic buying

Analytical thinking

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

IT literacy

Coupa/SAP knowledge

PowerBi

Driving licence

Education

CIPS qualifications

Tools

Coupa

SAP

PowerBi

Microsoft Office

Job description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

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.
• 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

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 ouremployees 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.

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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.

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