Pharmacy Buyer

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Phlo - Digital Pharmacy Full time

We’re looking for a dynamic and proactive pharmacy purchasing specialist to join Phlo as our Pharmacy Buyer. This is a full time, permanent role within the Pharmacy team that works closely with Finance to build and grow supplier relationships and ensure we receive the best possible pricing. This role will be based from our Manchester site, with travel to our Pharmacy sites (London, Birmingham and future sites in England) as required.

You’ll be a results-driven self-starter, able to effectively understand the needs of our pharmacy, finance, data and commercial teams. A key focus of this role will be maintaining robust systems to manage pricing and purchasing, and working with Finance to improve margins as the company scales.

Experience in Pharmacy buying is essential. As a start-up moving into our scale-up phase, someone with exposure to this environment is advantageous.

**The Job**

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in the following:

- Leading a new supply chain function focusing on purchasing, pricing and systems and defining strategy
- Securing best purchasing price on pharmacy wholesale products to increase gross margin
- Utilizing wholesaler rebates
- Collaborating with pharmacy, finance, commercial and data departments to forecast purchasing requirements providing for seasonality
- Implementing and continuously improving purchasing systems
- Stock management and profiling
- Reporting and analysis to key stakeholders on KPIs and market trends
- Maintaining, managing, and growing supplier relationships including payment terms
- Supporting commercial and finance teams with new partnership costings
- Working with pharmacy team to track and chase up credit notes and reduce owings
- Working with finance, pharmacy and various B2B partners to look at purchasing and cash flow

**Requirements**:
Ideally, we’re looking for someone with the following:

- Experience in pharmacy wholesale or retail drug purchasing
- Pharmacy drug knowledge required
- Dynamic purchasing professional comfortable operating with full autonomy
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience of a start-up is advantageous
- A proven track record in the purchasing field
- A willingness to travel to pharmacy sites to understand their needs and build relationships (initially a few times per month reducing to monthly/quarterly)
- Enjoys working with data to drive procurement decisions
- Strong excel skills.

**Benefits**

And in joining Phlo, you’ll receive:

- Salary between £40,000 - £50,000 depending on experience
- Autonomy to run and manage our Purchasing function and processes
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
- An extra day of annual leave for every complete year of service up to 5 extra days
- An extra day off for your Birthday every year to prolong the celebrations
- Pension scheme - 5% employer contribution
- Private Medical Insurance via Vitality
- Share options scheme to benefit from our future success
- Bereavement Leave policy covering family, friends, pets, and miscarriage
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay after 1 year of service
- Charity Day to support a cause that’s important to you
- Dependant Leave to take care of the people that rely on you
- 8 x free professional counselling sessions to support your mental health
- Perkbox membership for points and discounts
- £500 Employee Referral Scheme

These are our current benefits and they’re likely to grow as we do.

**The Logistics**

We’re based at Trafford Park in Manchester with close access to the M60 as well as excellent proximity to the tram (5 minutes' walk from Village stop) and bus service routes. We have free onsite parking.

**About Phlo**

We’re building the digital pharmacy infrastructure of the future. Our mission is to empower patients across the UK to better manage their healthcare by combining innovative technology and outstanding patient care.

Phlo is building the next generation digital pharmacy by allowing our NHS and private patients to manage, order and track their medication at the touch of a button and have it delivered in 4 hours or less - a UK first We also have a separate B2B offering, Phlo Connect, which allows private and NHS healthcare providers to plug into our digital pharmacy infrastructure to offer their own patients a superior pharmacy experience.

It’s an incredibly exciting time for Phlo as we scale up rapidly. By joining the team, you will have an opportunity to grow our company and enhance our products from day one.
- To deliver great service to Phlo’s patients we're building a company that’s reflective of their diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace that promotes and values difference, where everyone, from any background, can do their best work and be proud to belong._

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