Supplier Relationship Specialist

Job Description:

Supplier Relationship Specialist

Hybrid working with up to 3 days per week working from home

Salford Quays Manchester

Permanent

Salary £40K - £46K per annum + fantastic benefits

Full time 37.5 hours per week

We make health happen

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

As our Supplier Relationship Specialist you’ll be utilising your skills in managing business relationships with our key suppliers for professional services to help ensure we generate maximum value from long lasting partnerships.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Contribute to and take ownership, when required, of designing, generating
  supplier status analysis and reports on Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) activity as required by the SRM team.
• Assist in and/ or lead in identifying Value Creating Opportunities (VCO) and their effective implementation.
• Facilitate a co-ordinated communications approach to SRM both internally to
  senior operational stakeholders and externally with suppliers.
• Where required, lead supplier review meetings with category management staff and business stakeholders to assess supplier performance and contract
  compliance and take corrective action as agreed with the Supplier Relationship Manager to:
• Manage cost creep and maintain service levels for specific vendors.
• Support the remediation of contract leakage by effective stakeholder
  management and working with Category Management teams.
• Make informed decisions using detailed cost modelling to recommend and
  implement changes as required to improve supplier performance
• Assess SLA appropriateness and quality of management information to
  ensure that any resulting risks can be mitigated. Recommend and implement changes as required.
• Work with the UK Category Management teams to identify commercial sourcing opportunities and support the negotiation of new contracts or contract renewals
• Lead or assist in identifying synergies in the requirements of multiple Bupa UK
  businesses to leverage contracts and deliver value benefit and cost savings.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Have at least 2 years of proven supplier/contract management, administration, negotiation or similar experience.
• Be expected to train towards or hold a professional SRM qualification or MCIPS.
• Be comfortable with reading contracts in relation to cost modelling and SLA’s
  and have the ability to work with the Legal and Category Management teams to agree variations to contracts for goods and services.
• Be able to collate, interpret and interrogate detailed operational management
  information into transparent commercial conclusions and recommendations
  which support or drive VCO.
• Be able to analyse and present large amounts of financial data with attention
  to detail and effectively communicate these at all levels to influence
  change.
• Be self-motivated and have the ability to motivate others and have
  good influencing and persuasion skills.
• Possess excellent planning, organisation, communication, problem solving and project management skills and have the ability to matrix-manage to lead and/or close initiatives.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format please email: careers@bupa.com

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

People & HR

Locations:

Bupa Place