Job Description:
Procurement Support Specialist
Hybrid working with up to 3 days per week working from home
Salford Quays, Manchester
Permanent
Salary £24K - £28K per annum
Fantastic benefits including generous pension scheme and healthcare
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 Procurement Support Specialist is a new role based in Manchester (Bupa Place) and will be required to provide the following support services:
Advice and guidance to Procurement colleagues, internal stakeholders and external customers to navigate them through the Procurement process
Maintain and suggest improvements using data and or feedback from our customers
Monitor and validate Procurement data to ensure the most appropriate processes are followed and efficiently used across our Business Units
Record and report all reported problems and issues encountered during procurement activity together with the resolution and follow-up actions.
Provide support to suppliers in complying with contractual requirements, SLAs etc where requested
Process and support general administrative duties – whilst ensuring accuracy
Regularly build and distribute key KPI reports and produce monthly reports as agreed with the Procurement Leadership Team.
Ability to support regular sessions with senior Procurement leadership
Qualifications, Training and Experience
The Procurement Support Specialist must have the following skills and experience:
Two years experience of working in a customer service environment, preferably within a Procurement Team.
Effective communication at all levels with good interpersonal skills
The ability to create strong supporting relationships with Procurement colleagues and internal customers.
A strong customer service ethic including the ability to influence our stakeholders in sometimes challenging circumstances
Proven numeracy skills with attention to detail essential
The ability to analyse data and use problem solving techniques to determine the best course of action
The ability to manage your own workload to a consistently high standard and to promote teamwork with the wider Procurement function.
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.
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 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.
Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challeging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.
We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you.
As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.
Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.
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