Buyer

Cromwell Hospital (London, SW5 0TU)

Hybrid working (3 days per week at the Hospital)

Full time

Permanent

Salary starting from £50,000 per annum

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 Buyer you will be responsible for supporting the procurement manager in managing the buying of consumables for the Cromwell Hospital across a wide supplier base. This role is imperative to ensure that medical supplies and equipment are available to support patient care and hospital operations.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Sourcing and Procurement: Identify and evaluate suppliers, negotiate contracts, and purchase medical supplies, equipment, and services.
• Vendor Relations: Maintain strong relationships with suppliers to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and timely delivery of goods.
• Compliance: Ensure all buying activities comply with hospital policies, industry regulations, and legal requirements.
• Cost Control: Implement cost-saving strategies and manage budgets effectively.
• Collaboration: Work closely with clinical and administrative staff to understand their needs and ensure the availability of necessary supplies.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Experience of this role within a medical/clinical setting is desirable.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate with teams of all levels is essential.
• CIPS qualified is desirable but not essential.
• 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.

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 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.