Buyer - Healthcare

Contract: 15 Mths Secondment/FTC

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

About the role

A wonderful opportunity has arisen for an experienced Sourcing or Procurement professional operating at buyer level to join our Global Sourcing team within the EU Sourcing division in Nottingham. The role involves some national and international travel.

Reporting into the Buying Manager you will be delivering an exciting project as we look to move key Boots Brand Healthcare lines to an alternative source whilst ensuring we have a customer offering for the consumer at all times whilst the transfer is taking place.

This is an ideal opportunity for a buyer who is looking to stretch themselves with opportunity to manage stakeholders at more senior levels and take responsibility when ready for managing key areas of work. You will report into a Buying Manager who has a broader area of responsibility who is part of the EU sourcing team with responsibility for suppliers operating in that region.

Key responsibilities include:

• Accountable for driving profit and margin for the retailer

• Supporting the management of on-going and new vendor relationships and supplier performance

• Ensuring regular supplier meetings takes place to set up new relationships for ongoing success and to ensure streams of work remain on track

• Supporting business recommendations through performing the initial research and analysis and providing clear input in the selection of suppliers in collaboration with a cross-functional team

• Supporting the development and optimisation of a supply base which enables differentiated New Product Development (NPD)

• Alongside the alternative source project, you will have categories to manage, alongside your fellow Buyers in a similar role.
  

What you’ll need to have

• A strong cross functional player with excellent stakeholder management skills

• Experience managing negotiations for spend categories >$5m million dollars ideally on a global level

• Experience implementing category sourcing strategies with a proven track record of delivering exceptional results

• Knowledge of the strategic sourcing/procurement lifecycle and procurement best practices

• Strong commercial acumen

• Experience working with Profit & Loss (P&L) concepts, such as revenue, COGS, gross profit margin, operating expenses and cash flow with a view to identifying and delivering profit enhancement opportunities

Our benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus scheme

• Generous employee discounts

• Retirement Savings Plan

• Holiday entitlement increases with length of service

• Discounted gym membership

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that your Recruitment Partner will discuss with you. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by WBA and may not be accurate.

Who we are

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader, with more than 12,500 locations across the U.S., Europe and Latin America through our portfolio of consumer brands: Walgreens, Boots, Duane Reade, No7 Beauty Company and Benavides. We are reimagining local healthcare and wellbeing as part of our purpose – to create more joyful lives through better health.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, with a workplace environment that supports the health and wellbeing of our team members so that everyone feels supported, respected and celebrated for being their authentic selves.

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

We are a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.