Nuffield Health

Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics

The closing date is 12 June 2025

Job summary

As a Strategic Senior Buyer , you'll be responsible for:

  • Category management of Orthopaedics across the hospital business
  • Ensuring related clinical products and services are competitively sourced
  • Maintaining supplier relationships from a commercial perspective
  • Identifying and delivering cost saving initiatives
  • Maintaining quality of service throughout Supporting ongoing service enhancements
  • Management of risk across areas of responsibility

Main duties of the job

As a Strategic Senior Buyer, you'll bring experience of working closely with internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome, a basic knowledge of contract law and experience of working within cross functional unit teams to deliver procurement projects. You will have first-class communication skills, a strategic sourcing and category management expertise and be commercially focused with a proven ability of considering total cost of ownership and delivering added value.

You'll be responsible for ensuring products and services are competitively sourced and cost effective as well as maintaining supplier relationships from a commercial perspective, controlling costs, quality, ongoing service enhancements and risk management.

About us

Nuffield Health is the charity that's building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes - we'll do whatever it takes to look after the UK's wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

Details

Date posted

15 May 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

JR0087276

Job locations

Epsom Gateway, 2 Ashley Avenue, Epsom, KT18 5AL.

Epsom

KT18 5AL


Job description

Job responsibilities

Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics

National Travel with Hybrid Working (Epsom based) | Procurement | Permanent | Full-Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

Apply today. It starts with you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Strategic Senior Buyer - Orthopaedics

National Travel with Hybrid Working (Epsom based) | Procurement | Permanent | Full-Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

Apply today. It starts with you.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MCIPS (Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply)

Experience

Essential

  • Strategic sourcing and category management expertise within a healthcare setting
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Experienced negotiator; proficient in drawing upon and developing fact-based negotiation plans
  • Experience of working closely with and influencing internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome
  • Basic knowledge of contract law; proficient at drafting commercial contracts
  • Commercially focused with proven ability of considering total cost of ownership and delivering added value
  • Relevant experience of working within cross functional/business unit teams to deliver procurement projects and drive savings across the organisation
  • Experience with medical surgical consumables, devices, orthopaedics or alike will be highly beneficial.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MCIPS (Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply)

Experience

Essential

  • Strategic sourcing and category management expertise within a healthcare setting
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Experienced negotiator; proficient in drawing upon and developing fact-based negotiation plans
  • Experience of working closely with and influencing internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome
  • Basic knowledge of contract law; proficient at drafting commercial contracts
  • Commercially focused with proven ability of considering total cost of ownership and delivering added value
  • Relevant experience of working within cross functional/business unit teams to deliver procurement projects and drive savings across the organisation
  • Experience with medical surgical consumables, devices, orthopaedics or alike will be highly beneficial.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Nuffield Health

Address

Epsom Gateway, 2 Ashley Avenue, Epsom, KT18 5AL.

Epsom

KT18 5AL


Employer's website

https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Nuffield Health

Address

Epsom Gateway, 2 Ashley Avenue, Epsom, KT18 5AL.

Epsom

KT18 5AL


Employer's website

https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Talent Acquisition

People Support Centre

careers@nuffieldhealth.com

03001235080

Details

Date posted

15 May 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

JR0087276

Job locations

Epsom Gateway, 2 Ashley Avenue, Epsom, KT18 5AL.

Epsom

KT18 5AL


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