Surgical Buyer

Overview of the role
This role will manage the Wardles PI and UK Manufacture relationships, work to develop new product ranges to compete with other DAC companies in the UK, work towards delivering better buying costs, FC planning of buying PI products with PI Importers to improve product availability.

You will purchase Product to sell in Lexon Wholesale business and work closely with the PI Import team purchasing PI products in Europe to maximise the PI Opportunity.

You will work closely with the Commercial Manager, Wardles Sales team to hit the budgets for Internal (Well Stores) External Pharmacy Customers. You will be involved in the pricing of products and profitability to ensure we hit the % Profit Margin and sales team can complete when seeing in the Market.

Main Responsibilities
- Ensure good availability of stock for our ranges of products, ensuring that stock is available to buy, with a KPI set at 94% in stock.
- Work cross functionally to ensure any new ranges we buy work for the sales team, check they are profitable, keep on top of Trade price changes and products being discontinued in the UK market.
- Look to work with new suppliers where we can source product at better costs - work with Manufactures to set up new deals and make Wardles / Lexon important partner for their business growth.
- Know your legal classification of product when buying, is the product a POM/ P / GSL.
- Know Recall processes and Procedures in the company working with the RP’s.
- Manage and develop supplier relationships to ensure the effective sourcing of products in order to achieve the budgets.
- Monitor the competition and supplier activity monthly to ensure the maximum level of market and competitor awareness, if we have an issue on product purchases that’s not selling facilitate appropriate remedial action.
- Take responsibility for ensuring a thorough knowledge of the market by keeping up to date with all relevant market information using competitor pricing and our Power BI tools. Ensure that key market trends are represented in all defined categories on a timely basis and in-line with the competition.

**Problem Solving & Change**:

- Deliver, margin to meet financial objectives set in Budgets and forecasts
- Develop and deliver FC with PI Importers to improve our product availability maximise sales and profit in order to meet financial and volume targets. Ensure promotional performance is reviewed and revised.
- Deliver comprehensive and robust range reviews on time and to budget. Ensure that range performance is continually reviewed.
- Continually monitor range level pricing to ensure all products are competitive and profit maximised within agreed

**Key Knowledge and skills required**:

- Good knowledge of Pharmaceutical Industry, ideally surgical buying Experience UK and Europe.
- Proven track record in similar role
- Excellent Communication skills
- Excellent Negotiation Skills
- High Degree of Computer Literacy
- Strong planning and organisational skills
- Ability to work to time pressures in a fast moving and rapidly changing market
- Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you_.

About The Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

**‘Together we make a difference’**

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