Head Of Procurement à Grande-Bretagne

Job Description:

Procurement Manager

Cromwell Hospital (London, SW5 0TU)

Hybrid working (3 days per week at the Hospital)

Full time

Permanent

Salary starting from £65,000 per annum plus 10% Bonus

Advert closes 24th April 2025

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.

As Procurement Manager you will be responsible for managing the buying of consumables for the Cromwell Hospital across a wide supplier base. This is a senior commercial role that will provide expertise to focus on strategic sourcing and value delivery whilst managing supplier relationships.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• You will be responsible for the hospitals consumable expenditure to ensure products and services are sourced competitively and cost effectively.
• Be accountable for identifying and delivering multiple cost saving initiatives.
• Work closely with clinical stakeholders to understand their needs and manage relationships with key suppliers.
• Create reports identifying key commercial KPIs and create solutions to address underperformance.
• Negotiate with and manage the supplier base with a clear strategy and improvement of terms.
• Deliver projects and trials across wider teams for new initiatives.
• Remedy any supplier issues and maintain personal integrity when dealing with commercial confidentiality and conduct.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Experience of this role within a medical/clinical setting is highly desirable.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate with teams of all levels is essential.
• CIPS qualified.
• Proven ability and experience of delivering savings through driving strategic planning.
• Experienced negotiator who is proficient at drawing upon and developing fact-based negotiation plans and operating at a senior level.
• Contract and supplier relationship management expertise is essential.

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.
• 10% management bonus.
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
• 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.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

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.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Finance & Accounting

Locations:

Cromwell Hospital London