Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics

TN United Kingdom; Epsom; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare charity is seeking a Strategic Senior Buyer in Orthopaedics to manage supplier relationships and ensure cost-effective sourcing of clinical products. This permanent, full-time role offers hybrid working and a competitive salary based on experience. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in strategic sourcing, excellent communication skills, and the ability to drive savings across the organization. A comprehensive benefits package is included to support employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic sourcing and category management within healthcare.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with medical surgical consumables or orthopaedics is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Manage category of Orthopaedics across the hospital business.
• Ensure competitive sourcing of clinical products and services.
• Identify and deliver cost-saving initiatives.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Communication

Negotiation

Job description

Social network you want to login/join with:

Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics, Epsom

col-narrow-left

Client:

Nuffield Health

Location:

Job Category:

Other

-

EU work permit required:

Yes

col-narrow-right

Job Reference:

a12e57228925

Job Views:

3

Posted:

17.05.2025

Expiry Date:

01.07.2025

col-wide

Job Description:

Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics

National Travel with Hybrid Working (Epsom based) | Procurement | Permanent | Full-Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that's building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes - we'll do whatever it takes to look after the UK's wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

As a Strategic Senior Buyer, you'll bring experience of working closely with internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome, a basic knowledge of contract law and experience of working within cross functional unit teams to deliver procurement projects. You will have first-class communication skills, a strategic sourcing and category management expertise and be commercially focused with a proven ability of considering total cost of ownership and delivering added value.

You'll be responsible for ensuring products and services are competitively sourced and cost effective as well as maintaining supplier relationships from a commercial perspective, controlling costs, quality, ongoing service enhancements and risk management.

As a Strategic Senior Buyer , you'll be responsible for:

Category management of Orthopaedics across the hospital business

Ensuring related clinical products and services are competitively sourced

Maintaining supplier relationships from a commercial perspective

Identifying and delivering cost saving initiatives

Maintaining quality of service throughout

Management of risk across areas of responsibility

To succeed as our Clinical Senior Buyer, you will need to demonstrate:

Strategic sourcing and category management expertise within a healthcare setting

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Experienced negotiator; proficient in drawing upon and developing fact-based negotiation plans

Experience of working closely with and influencing internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome

Basic knowledge of contract law; proficient at drafting commercial contracts

Commercially focused with proven ability of considering total cost of ownership and delivering added value

Relevant experience of working within cross functional/business unit teams to deliver procurement projects and drive savings across the organisation

Experience with medical surgical consumables, devices, orthopaedics or alike will be highly beneficial.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.