Strategic Senior Buyer Property and FM

Nuffield Health; Epsom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health charity is seeking a Property and FM Senior Buyer to oversee procurement projects, manage supplier relationships, and ensure cost-effective sourcing. This role involves engaging with stakeholders and delivering strategic sourcing initiatives while working in a hybrid environment. The successful candidate will enjoy a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package tailored to enhance wellbeing.

Benefits

Free Gym Membership

Health Assessments

Retail Discounts

Pension Options

Qualifications

• Experience in Facilities Management with significant relevant experience.
• Knowledge of contract law and procurement projects.

Responsibilities

• Deliver sourcing initiatives and develop category strategies.
• Maintain supplier relationships and control costs.
• Engage with stakeholders to manage supplier risk.

Skills

Communication

Strategic Sourcing

Category Management

Job description

Property and FM Senior Buyer

Nationwide travel reporting to Epsom/Hybrid working | Procurement | Permanent

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 an Property and FM 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.

You will have a track record of working in both hard and soft Facilities Management with significant relevant experience.

As our Property and FM Senior Buyer, you will:

• Engage with the Business, understanding strategic business objectives and requirements.

• Be responsible for delivering sourcing initiatives and supporting the development of category strategies for their areas of responsibility.

• Provide technical and market expertise to support their sourcing initiatives.

• Working with stakeholders to support the identification and management of supplier risk and issues.

• Deliver projects in accordance with sourcing methodology and be a proactive advocate of standardisation.

• Maintain supplier relationships from a commercial perspective and work with the operational business owners to meet business needs, through control of costs, cost reductions, quality improvement, ongoing service enhancement and risk management.

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.

Apply today… It starts with you.