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    Strategic Buyer

    Wolverhampton, United KingdomHybridFull-timePosted 1w ago
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    Job description

    Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.  Hybrid role.  37.5 Hours per week.  Monday - Friday. 08:30 - 16:00. 

    Purpose of the post: 

    To provide purchasing services to the UK Eurofins businesses as part of a centralised purchasing department, within the scopes of operational excellence for all UK entities.

    • Deliver purchasing projects which ensure value is added in terms of cost, quality, delivery and service.
    • Analyse spend data and formulate a purchasing category strategy for specific projects.  Plans are to include, but are not limited to:
      • market and supplier analysis
      • defining and approving purchasing strategy
      • executing through tender and benchmarking exercises
      • contract formulation and award.
      • conducting regular supplier contract negotiations and supplier performance reviews
    • Implement the category strategy plans to achieve planned outcomes and in a way that meets the local and Group business needs.
    • Deliver a professional and efficient Purchasing service to the labs and managing key stakeholders internally and suppliers externally.
    • Liaise with internal departments to ensure an excellent level of service is provided whilst ensuring adherence to purchasing policies and procedures.
    • Obtain significant cost savings on defined scope of consumables, equipment and services for Eurofins companies with increasing level of product quality, service and delivery.
    • Drive standardization and rationalization of the product and supplier base, in close conjunction with your internal clients.
    • Manage relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best contract conditions.
    • Carry out site visits to review Purchasing Activity with business stakeholders as required.
    • Maintain purchasing data base (supplier master files, item pricing files, etc).
    • Carry out any other tasks as may be deemed necessary by the line manager.
    • Experience of working in a strategic purchasing role.
    • Strong analytical, commercial, and problem-solving skills with experience evaluating options, managing risk, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
    • High energy, ‘can-do’ attitude with drive to deliver successful project outcomes and overcome challenges.
    • Demonstrated project management capability, including planning, prioritisation, governance, stakeholder engagement, and delivery to agreed timelines.
    • Effective communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to engage, collaborate and influence.
    • Customer and business-focused mindset, ensuring project objectives remain aligned to organisational priorities and operational needs.
    • Experience managing internal and external stakeholder relationships, including suppliers, and senior leadership teams.
    • Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, workstreams, and competing priorities simultaneously.
    • Good knowledge of purchasing systems and procedures.
    • Experience with Coupa (preferable but not essential) or other purchasing systems (e.g.SAP).
    • IT literacy with working knowledge of Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and PowerBi.
    • CIPS qualifications preferable but not essential.
    • Full clean driving licence and car owner.

    Benefits

    At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

    As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

    • Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
    • Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
    • Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates
    • Company Pension Plan
    • Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
    • Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
    • Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
    • Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
    • Health and Wellbeing Programmes
    • Worldwide career opportunities
    • We also have in place rewards recognising the great work our employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

    What Happens Next
    Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
    Your data 
    As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

    Closing Date

    We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
    Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

    We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

    We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

    Sustainability matters to us! We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

    Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Eurofins

    Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies. Eurofins PSS Insourcing has an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join our team.  We are searching for a business development professional with proven experience selling and implementing high-value sales.  Someone who thrives on identifying and closing new business caring for the client through the process will succeed in this role. This position offers the excitement of hunting for new clients with the goal of diversifying our offerings and client base as well as the opportunity to foster and expand partnerships with key clients.  This is a hybrid role working remotely from a home office, travelling locally and within the region for prospect and current client meetings as well as full days spent at current client sites to maximize networking and relationship building opportunities. A successful candidate will have a proven track record and is comfortable reaching out to and meeting with high level decision makers including C-Suite.  This position will manage the strategic sales process including identifying client needs, defining and presenting how PSS can address them, as well as managing the implementation process for new programs. If you’re looking for a rewarding career, a place to call home, apply with us today! 

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