Senior Strategic Buyer

3 months ago


Chipping Norton, United Kingdom Owen Mumford Full time

**Scope**:
Responsible for strategic procurement and contract management of a specified selection of direct and indirect categories.

Delivering supplier value generation and performance optimisation, whilst meeting or exceeding quality and GMP requirements.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for category contract negotiations (spend c.£15MM per annum), ensuring the best total acquisition cost from current or new suppliers where further cost or service improvements can be achieved, whilst maintaining quality and regulatory standards
- Ensure the category supply base is developed to improve quality, service, technical competence and reliability
- Achieve year on year savings (Purchase Price Variance and non-PPV) for specified categories
- Lead purchasing activities to drive quality improvements with suppliers, liaising with the Quality function to identify and implement priorities
- Maintain a contract database for a defined group of categories
- Assess and manage risk for a defined group of categories, taking appropriate action to minimise the impact on supply
- Collaborate with company planners and Quality to resolve category supplier performance issues
- Work with category suppliers to identify and harness the potential for technology and service innovations
- Support company inventory reduction initiatives with category suppliers
- Ensure Health and Safety Policies and Environmental Policies are being adhered to at all times
- Comply with all regulatory guidelines and company Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) at all times
- Achieve agreed personal objectives

**Financial Responsibilities**:

- Authorised to negotiate supply contracts according to company guidelines and constraints
- Budget holder with signing authority up to £5000

**To be in this role, you will need**:

- Considerable category management experience in relevant supply categories
- Contract negotiation for on-going raw material supply as well as one-off capital purchases
- Strategic Sourcing and supplier management/development
- Experience within a regulated environment
- Wider supply chain experience an advantage
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience
- Procurement qualification, e.g. CIPS preferred
- Highly organised and methodical in approach
- Clear, concise and unambiguous communication
- Demonstrated collaboration, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to communicate & build relationships at all levels

**What will we give you?**

You will be joining a successful, privately owned industry leader who are constantly innovating and looking to improve lives, empower patients and relieve the pressure on healthcare professionals. We invest heavily in our staff and offer a competitive salary and benefits package along with the opportunity to develop within the business. Additional benefits include:

- Remote working - up to 2 days per week
- Flexi time - covering 37.5 hours per week with core working hours of 9:30am-12 Noon and 2:00pm-4:00pm (3:30pm on Fridays)
- 25 days annual leave (with the opportunity to earn loyalty days with length of service)
- Holiday purchase scheme (up to 10 days purchased per holiday year)
- Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
- Enhanced Sickness Pay
- Group Life Insurance
- Wellbeing initiatives and support
- Annual company bonus
- Free parking, free tea & coffee and free fruit

**About us**:
Owen Mumford is a global leader in medical device design and manufacture. For almost 70 years we have been inventing life-enhancing devices that are tested and proven to deliver an industry benchmark in the safety, accuracy and comfort of medication administration. This strong heritage is the springboard for our future as we help to shape the progress of the healthcare industry by bringing pioneering concepts and solutions to life in an accountable and sustainable way. Headquartered in the UK, Owen Mumford is a family-run business with a large global presence across North America, EMEA and APAC.


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