Generic Buyer

2 weeks ago


Redditch, United Kingdom Well Pharmacy Full time

Overview of the role
Working as part of the NHS Commercial team planning, selecting and buying pharmaceuticals to be dispensed in our pharmacy division (Well Pharmacy) and sold by our wholesale division (Bestway Medhub). Establishing and maintaining effective supplier relationships to ensure that we are always able to meet the needs of or patients and customers whilst also achieving our commercial / financial targets.

Main Responsibilities
- Working for the Purchasing Manager as part of a team buyers.
- Seeking out opportunities to increase sales and margin for the business
- Establishing effective supplier relationships with both existing and new suppliers
- Sourcing new products to ensure we offer the broadest range and the highest availability possible
- Evaluating the viability of sourcing directly or outsourcing to our supply partners
- Negotiating with suppliers to achieve the best costs for the business
- Understanding market developments to identify threats and opportunities which arise
- Working in partnership with the buyers in your category and the wider NHS Commercial team
- Developing plans to mitigate threats and maximising opportunities
- Ensuring all actions achieve the best results for the business
- Working with the Supply Chain team to ensure we effectively control our working capital and maximise our profitability
- Supporting and demonstrating effective communication across both NHS procurement & the wider business
- Understanding of pharmacy reimbursement including Drug Tariff categories
- Understanding the future needs of the business and evolving sourcing & buying activities to meet them

**Problem Solving & Change**:

- Can do attitude, with a solution focused approach towards problems
- Challenges the status quo but from a perspective of seeking first to understand
- Identifies improvement opportunities, taking them to the purchasing manager for evaluation

**Key knowledge and skills required**:

- Understanding of the pharmaceutical market, especially prescription medicines is desirable but not essential
- A problem solver, able to make decisions, prepared to use their initiative and think laterally
- Understands when to involve / seek the advice of others and confident to do so
- Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to work collaboratively with internal & external teams
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal
- IT literate with the ability to interpret and manipulate data
- 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’**

Package Description
- Competitive salaries.
- Excellent training & development opportunities.
- Paid Holidays.
- Workplace pension scheme.
- Staff Discount.
- Travel Loans and more


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