Procurement Buyer (Healthcare)

🌟Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!🌟

📍Location: East Croydon

🕒Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.

💷Salary: Competitive

🎉Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

📅Here's the exciting bit… A day includes:

Role Purpose:

The Pharmacy Buyer is critical to the delivery of the healthcare strategy with a focus on maximising pharmacy and clinic income and margin through the successful management and negotiation of commercial agreements with suppliers, new product launches and execution of joint business plans.

This role reports into the Senior Pharmacy Buyer for Superdrug.

A typical day in this role includes:

Key stakeholders include: Suppliers, Wholesalers, Healthcare Operations, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Finance, Marketing and Legal

Working closely with the Healthcare Services team developing and delivering the commercial strategy

Maximising income and margin through supplier negotiations

Identifying and implementing new product or service opportunities to drive innovation

Working with suppliers, wholesalers and Supply Chain to ensure strong product availability

Reviewing and negotiating contracts

Collaborating with the Marketing team and suppliers to agree and implement strong marketing plans

Collaborating with Healthcare Operations and suppliers to deliver training and improve in store processesWorking on cross functional projects across the wider Healthcare team to exceed customer needs and help deliver the Healthcare strategy

Developing, building and maintaining strong internal and external relationships to support and enhance the Superdrug proposition

Providing exceptional service to customers both internal and external, working to proactively resolve issues and drive efficiencies

This job is a good fit for you if:

You thrive in a fast paced, ever changing environment

You want to add value through collaborative working, and ensuring people feel engaged and involved

You take pride in your attention to detail and ability to effectively plan and prioritise your workload

You have strong analytical skills and enjoy analysing data

You are great at building business relationships and enjoy working collaboratively with your team and your stakeholders

You get satisfaction through seeing your hard work and plans come together and have real business impact

You are motivated by delivering results and can easily work to deadlines

You enjoy learning new systems and finding more efficient ways of working

You have a proactive mindset and can understand and interpret the bigger picture

You’re a strong communicator who can easily help others to understand your perspective

What you’ll need:

Confidence in office 365 products, in particular Microsoft Excel

Knowledge of Retek, Business Objects and Power Bi is an advantage

Excellent numerical, organisational and time management skills

Experience working in retail or for a pharmaceutical or healthcare company would be ideal but not essential

Experience in the core principles of buying – negotiation, category management, supplier relationships

💡Here's what's in it for you:

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
• Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
• Company pension matching and bonus
• We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK

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