Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics

NHS; Epsom; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare charity is looking for a Strategic Senior Buyer to manage Orthopaedics procurement. The role requires strategic sourcing expertise and strong communication skills, ensuring cost-effective sourcing and supplier relationship management. The ideal candidate will have relevant experience in healthcare procurement and MCIPS qualification.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in strategic sourcing and category management in healthcare.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills required.
• Experience with medical surgical consumables or devices is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage category of Orthopaedics across the hospital business.
• Ensure clinical products and services are competitively sourced.
• Maintain supplier relationships from a commercial perspective.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Communication skills

Negotiation

Commercial awareness

Education

MCIPS

Job description

Overview

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

Main duties

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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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
• Supporting ongoing service enhancements
• Management of risk across areas of responsibility

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MCIPS (Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply)

Experience

• 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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Nuffield Health

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