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Senior Buyer Professional Services

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.

Rewards & Benefits

Helping you be and feel your best.

Annual Leave

25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.

Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan

Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.

*eligibility criteria applies.

Financial Wellbeing

A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.

Cycle to Work Scheme

Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.

Gym Membership

Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.

Online GP

Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.

Relevant Stories

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Hints & Tips

Help with your application.

Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.

Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview.

CV

Think about the skills and qualities asked for in the job description and show how you’ve applied those same skills and qualities in other roles. Focus on the things that will make us want to see more of you.

Covering email

Your CV will contain details about why you’d be a good fit for the role, but it’s well worth adding a short, snappy paragraph pulling out the two or three most compelling reasons as to why you’d be perfect for the job in your covering email..

Video interview

The video interview lasts 15-20 minutes if you get to this stage. On the day, look the part, be aware of your surroundings and practice your answers to feel prepared. Most of all, relax and be yourself.

DBS Checks

Some of our roles require a DBS check and they are processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of the recruitment process. These checks are to assist employers in making safer recruitment decisions. However, a check is just one part of robust recruitment practice.

Documents

You could be asked to provide proof of vaccinations as part of our Occupational Health pre-employment screening. We know it can be time consuming to get this information if you don’t already have it to hand, so we encourage you to start preparing this information to avoid any delays to the onboarding process.

Your current studies

If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact psc@nuffieldhealth.com

Feedback on applications

Due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to provide individual feedback from an inital application.