Procurement - Category Specialist

Procurement - Category Specialist

**Job Description**:
**Buyer**

**Hybrid working with up to 3 days per week working from home**

**Salford Quays, Manchester**

**Permanent**

**Salary £40K - £46K per annum dependent upon experience**

**Full time 37.5 hours per week**

**We make health happen**

Working in our UK support functions you'll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you'll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

**How you'll help us make health happen**:
The Buyer is accountable for their specific category, with responsibility to ensure products and services are sourced competitively and cost effectively which includes identifying and delivering cost savings.

In addition, the job holder will:

- Develop and maintains a comprehensive category/purchasing plan which has a clear savings/opportunity pipeline.
- Establish or follows category prioritises based on benefits and opportunities and business requirements
- Actively set, lead and drive the timeline for sourcing initiatives.
- Lead contract negotiations on behalf of the organisation and develop negotiation plans.
- Develop innovative solutions by challenging the status quo and business requirements.
- Interface with stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood.
- Actively contribute to meetings and at events and is a Procurement advocate, positively raising the profile of Procurement throughout the organisation.
- Maintains commercial confidentiality and conduct supplier relationships with the highest standard of ethical conduct.

**Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role**:

- Ideally holds a Graduate Degree
- Desirable MCIPS qualified or is studying towards this qualification
- Sourcing experience and expertise
- Experience of delivering savings through driving sourcing and category procurement activities
- Excellent communication skills
- Comprehensive experience of working closely with internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome

**Benefits**

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
- Various other benefits and online discounts

**Why Bupa?**

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
Finance & Accounting
Locations:
Bupa Place

Referral programme, Cycle to work scheme, Gym membership, Financial planning services, Employee mentoring programme, Company pension, Health & wellbeing programme, Free flu jabs