Assistant Buyer

Job Description:

Assistant Buyer

Hybrid working with up to 3 days per week working from home

Salford Quays, Manchester

Permanent

Salary £24K - £26K 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 Assistant Buyer will work across multiple categories with responsibility to ensure products and services are sourced competitively and cost effectively. This will also include supporting other Procurement Team members on specific activities and projects.  

In addition, the job holder will:

• 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.

• Undertake market research and benchmarking of the goods, services and suppliers in the market, using Procurement models and methodology.

• Support with a commercial tendering process to obtain the best outcome for Bupa. Including, requirements definition, selection criteria, issuing invitations to suppliers, tender and commercial review, and selection.

• Ensures timelines are achieved for sourcing initiatives.

• Participate in contract negotiations and planning to deliver innovative solutions by challenging the status quo and business requirements.

• Interfacing with internal customers to ensure requirements are identified and understood.

• 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.

Qualifications, Training and Experience

• Ideally holds a Graduate Degree

• Desirable MCIPS qualified or is studying towards this qualification (or equivalent professional qualification

• Strong commercial awareness

• Strong negotiation 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
• 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: [email protected]

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