Excellent opportunity to work with a highly successful healthcare company where you will support the Procurement Operations Manager and Head of Procurement to deliver profitable external service contracts for biomedical and endoscopy equipment.

As Senior Buyer you will:

Lead negotiations of contract pricing and terms of maintenance contracts.
Manage the suppliers and contracts in line with the supplier relationship management (SRM) programme
Oversee all biomed Private and NHS sites by supporting other team members.
Deploy good decision process and techniques to optimise profit and value and balance the risk from the external spend
Support team members with company bids and pricing exercises from a procurement perspective
Support the business and team on the growing knowledge and capability, developing a clear process of engagement and ways of working.
Support the POM in agreeing internal SLAs with our internal customers and being first line contact for the buyers with standard business escalations.
Ensure that all maintenance contracts records are accurately maintained, and prepare agreed monthly reports on external service contract spend and performance against SLAs.
Supporting buyers for decision making within agreed limits, especially in the absence of Procurement Operations Manager.
Assisting the POM to performance manage contract output to ensure quality and value for money.
Team budget of circa £5m for responsible categories.

The person:

ESSENTIAL - CIPS level 4, qualified as a minimum
At least 2 years procurement experience within an integrated supply chain, including service and material management.
Intermediate to advance excel skills required for detailed analysis
Experience in Cost Management, SRM and Performance Improvement.
Experience of managing, negotiating and monitoring contracts.
Proven ability to work successfully in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment.
Appreciation of whole life cost management.
Appreciation of engineering operations.

Benefits:

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
After successfully completing 6-month probation period, enrolment into Death in Service scheme (4x salary)
Pension with Royal London (enrolment after 3 months of employment)
Perkbox - discounts/offers with various popular brands
Cycle to work scheme (after 3 months of employment)
Electric car scheme

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