Buyer - 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

2 weeks ago

Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Eurofins UK NSC Full time
Company 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.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 940 laboratories in 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.72 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description:

Working hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.

This is a hybrid working position, 2-3 days spent working in Wolverhampton and the remainder of the week working from home.

  • To deliver purchasing projects which ensure value is added in terms of cost, quality, delivery and service.
  • To 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

  • To implement the category strategy plans to achieve planned outcomes and in a way that meets the local and Group business needs.
  • To deliver a professional and efficient Purchasing service to the labs and managing key stakeholders internally and suppliers externally.
  • To liaise with internal departments to ensure an excellent level of service is provided whilst ensuring adherence to purchasing policies and procedures.
  • To obtain significant cost savings on defined scope of consumables, equipment and services for Eurofins companies with increasing level of product quality, service and delivery.
  • To drive standardization and rationalization of the product and supplier base, in close conjunction with your internal clients.
  • To manage relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best contract conditions.
  • To carry out site visits to review Purchasing Activity with business stakeholders as required.
  • To maintain purchasing data base (supplier master files, item pricing files, etc).
  • To carry out any other tasks as may be deemed necessary by the line manager.

Qualifications:

  • Proven experience of working in a strategic purchasing role.
  • Strong negotiation and analytical skills with proven experience of tendering and cost management.
  • High energy, 'cando' attitude with drive and a passion to win.
  • Performance driven mindset to deliver within agreed deadlines. Project management skills preferable.
  • Effective communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to engage, collaborate and influence.
  • A customer focused approach to meet the business needs and alignment on priorities.
  • Supplier relationship management expertise, including performance reviews.
  • 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.
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:

  • Holiday Purchase Scheme
  • Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
  • Company Pension Plan
  • Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 confidential support.
  • Free car parking
  • Worldwide career opportunities
  • Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savi

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