Trainee Buyer

**About The Role**:
**Team -** Sourcing

**Working Pattern -** Hybrid - 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time, 35 hours per week.

**Top 3 skills needed for this role**:

- Experience in using Microsoft Office eg. Excel, PowerPoint
- Highly organised and able to manage workload
- A bright energetic mindset that is keen to learn

**What this role is all about**:
Vitality's Sourcing team are looking for a young, energetic and keen individual at the start of their career to help support their function on a short term basis. You will have the chance to learn about multiple different business processes within the world of Procurement, which is an ever growing sector of importance in the world of Business

As part of the Sourcing team, you will support Vitality’s end to end sourcing activities, with a specific focus on transactional technology procurement. The role will be focused on effective workload management plus effective and timely communications with stakeholders.

**Key Actions**
- Take an active role in technology procurement, managing a group of engagements to follow our defined sourcing processes, to ensure suppliers are onboarded correctly, with suitable agreements in place
- Manage a defined group of low-level technology contract renewals, liaising with business stakeholders to understand the requirement and then agreeing the commercials and renewal documentation with the supplier
- Ensure that the correct paperwork is used for all processes and ensure that the information is accurate
- You are comfortable with communications, both written and face-to-face, and comfortable with chasing up decisions
- Engaging with suppliers. Some light-weight negotiations may be required

**Essential Skills needed to fulfil this role**:

- A highly organised individually, capable of effectively managing workload and prioritising demand to meet stakeholder expectations
- Confident in communicating to a wide range of internal and external staff, and building relationships
- Be adept at thinking logically and analytically, with the ability to effectively understand processes
- Possess a good attention to detail

**So, what’s in it for you?**
- Bonus Schemes - A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%- We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance - With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance - Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. **Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities**

**Who We Are**

At Vitality, everything we do is driven by our core purpose. To make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives through our market-leading health and life insurance and the Vitality Programme. We empower our members to take control of their wellness and develop long-term healthy habits.

**Diversity & Inclusion**

We’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

**Vitality’s approach to sustainability**

Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

**About Us**:
Vitality is an award-winning, dynamic and vibrant financial services provider, with a ground-breaking vision for the future, where individuals are enabled to succeed and are rewarded and recognised for their contribution to our business. We’re the UK insurer and investment provider that rewards people for positive lifestyle choices - a key element of our Shared-value model. With 1.4m UK members and more than 25m globally, we’re out to make the world a healthier, happier place. This applies as much to our people as it does to our members. #LI-Hybrid

Working for Vitality, you'll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best. We think work should be fun and sociable, and we want our people to get the most out of every day. Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved. Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It’s what we call offering shared values, because a healthy happy team is good for us, good for our members and good for you.

Find out why people love being part of the Vitality Team