Senior Buyer Professional Services
Epsom and Barbican, London | Hybrid Working | Procurement | Fixed Term Contract: 6 Months | Full Time
Competitive salary available, depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity, building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award‑winning hospitals and fitness facilities to flagship community programmes, we’re transforming the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion, commitment to quality, it starts with you.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Buyer Professional Servicesto join our Procurement team on a 6‑month fixed term contract. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in delivering strategic sourcing initiatives and building strong stakeholder and supplier partnerships across the business.
You’ll bring a strong commercial mindset, experience in category management and sourcing, and the ability to influence stakeholders to deliver best‑value outcomes.
As our Senior Buyer Professional Services you’ll:
Engage with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and requirements
Deliver sourcing initiatives and supporting the development of category strategies
Provide market insight and technical expertise to inform procurement decisions
Collaborate with teams across Operations, Technology (IT) and Professional Services
Identify and manage supplier risks and resolving issues effectively
Deliver projects in line with procurement methodologies and driving standardisation
Manage supplier relationships commercially, ensuring value, quality, and performance
Drive cost control, cost reduction, service improvement, and risk management
To succeed as a Senior Buyer Professional Services, you’ll bring:
Strong experience in procurement, ideally within Corporate Professional services
Proven background in sourcing, category management, and supplier management
Ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders
Commercial acumen, including total cost of ownership principles
Understanding of contract law fundamentals
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
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.
Welcome to Nuffield Health, the UK’s leading not-for-profit healthcare organisation*.
As a not-for-profit with no shareholders, we invest all our income back into our family of award-winning 37 hospitals, 114 fitness and wellbeing clubs, healthcare clinics, over 200 workplace wellbeing services, as well as developing flagship collaborations supporting our communities – all to realise our vision to build a healthier nation.
What makes us unique is our unrivalled award winning and industry leading network of health and wellbeing services. Only Nuffield Health has the wide-ranging expertise to provide connected care. We attract some of the best people in their specialist fields, who take a personalised approach so we can provide the best possible care and support now and in the future – wherever they are on their journey. All for the public benefit. So, it’s no surprise that we’re trusted by the NHS, Private Medical Insurers, employers and the general public to provide exceptional health and wellbeing services to the nation.
We’re committed to our vision of building a healthier nation.
Welcome to Nuffield Health. Specialists in you.
* Nuffield Health is a Registered Charity. Our objective is to advance, promote and maintain health and healthcare of all descriptions and to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health of any kind, all for the public benefit. Registered Charity Numbers 205533 (England and Wales) and SC041793 (Scotland).
