Job Description:
Assistant Buyer
Hybrid working with up to 3 days per week working from home
Bupa Place, Salford Quays, Manchester
Permanent
Salary £24,900 - £25,800 per annum
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.
We're looking to appoint a self-motivated, organised Assistant Buyer to join our procurement team in Manchester. Here you'll be developing relationships with various stakeholders, and you'll work with Buyers and Category Managers to ensure products and services are sourced in accordance with Bupa's procurement policies.
How you'll help us make health happen
Support the development and maintenance a of category/purchasing plans which have a clear savings/opportunity pipeline.
Follow category prioritises based on benefits and opportunities and business
requirements.
Upon the instruction of the Category Specialist (Buyer), and Category Managers undertake market research and benchmarking of the goods, services and suppliers in the market, using Procurement models and methodology.
Support Category Specialists (Buyers) and Category Managers with a commercial tendering process to obtain the best outcome for Bupa. Including, pre-qualification activity, requirements definition, selection criteria, issuing invitations to suppliers, tender and commercial review, and selection.
Preparation of category reporting dashboards, providing clear data driven insights to category teams.
Coordinate the end-to-end Due Diligence process for allocated suppliers, ensuring all documentation is collected, and effective collaboration with internal
stakeholders to meet compliance requirements within agreed timeframes, providing regular updates to category team.
Administer contracts into the Jaggaer procurement system including contract drafting in collaboration with stakeholders. Be a Procurement advocate, positively raising the profile of Procurement throughout the organisation.
Maintain 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 or equivalent professional qualification
Strong commercial awareness
Negotiation and contract drafting skills an advantage
Experience of building and maintaining effective relationships
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
• 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 takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We're committed to ensuring you're treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
Finance & AccountingLocations:
Bupa Place
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
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