Senior Buyer

Location: Beaconsfield, Oxfordshire

At InHealth, we're on a mission to Make Healthcare Better. As the UK's largest specialist diagnostic provider, we support millions of patients each year through our partnerships with the NHS and healthcare organisations across the UK.

We're looking for an experienced Procurement Senior Buyer to support the delivery of strategic sourcing and procurement activity across a range of clinical and non-clinical categories. Reporting to the Procurement Business Partner, you will take ownership of assigned spend areas, acting as the primary procurement lead for key business functions and working closely with stakeholders and suppliers to deliver value, compliance and continuity of supply.

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of 2-3 days per week based at our Beaconsfield office, alongside national travel as required.

This role is ideally suited to a procurement professional who enjoys building strong stakeholder relationships, driving commercial outcomes, and identifying opportunities to improve value across a complex organisation.

What You Will Do

- Lead sourcing activities, including market research, supplier evaluation, tender processes and contract awards.
- Develop procurement and category strategies for assigned spend areas.
- Identify and deliver cost savings, cost avoidance and procurement efficiency opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, monitoring performance against agreed KPIs and service levels.
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand procurement requirements and support effective procurement planning.
- Analyse spend, supplier and market data to support strategic purchasing decisions.
- Produce business cases, procurement reports and savings tracking information.
- Support supplier onboarding, due diligence, risk management and governance activities.
- Promote procurement best practice, sustainability and ethical sourcing initiatives.
- Ensure procurement activities comply with relevant legislation, governance frameworks and organisational policies.





About You

You are an experienced procurement professional with strong commercial awareness, excellent stakeholder management skills and a passion for delivering value.

You'll bring

- Significant experience within procurement, sourcing and category management roles.
- Demonstrable success in delivering proactive cost savings, value improvement initiatives and commercial outcomes.
- Experience managing supplier relationships across multiple categories and business areas.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables and basic modelling.
- Experience using purchase order management systems and procurement tools.
- Excellent organisational, communication and prioritisation skills.
- The ability to influence stakeholders and build effective working relationships at all levels.
- CIPS Level 3 qualified (or above), with a commitment to continued professional development.
- Degree-level education (or equivalent experience).
- Willingness to travel across the UK as required.

Most importantly, you'll share InHealth's values of Trust, Passion, Care and Creativity, helping us deliver outstanding services for patients, partners and colleagues while continuing our mission to make healthcare better.

What's in it for you

We offer a fantastic benefits package, which is available through a mobile-enabled rewards platform, called InJoy. This is your place to access thousands of offers and discounts on a wide range of products and services relating to: fashion, travel, eating out, technology, leisure and more!

In addition to this,



we also offer:

- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Generous company contribution pension scheme
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities
- 24/7 access to a dedicated well-being hub and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Monthly award programme and online peer-to-peer recognition
- Refer a friend bonus
- Discounts on InHealth’s healthcare services
- Smart tech, Cycle to Work and thousands of discounts and cashback options
- Paid-for professional memberships and more!

Making sure our people are happy at work is one of our main priorities, which means giving them as many opportunities as we can to support their personal and professional growth. We also have an innovative approach to personal and professional development, helping you to be the best version of you and giving you a real career pathway. IND01

About us

InHealth is the UK’s largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions, working in partnership with the NHS for more than 30 years to make healthcare better for more than 5 million patients each year.

Our support services teams play a vital role in making healthcare better every day so whether you’re supporting operations, logistics, finance, digital or other essential services, you’ll be part of a people-focused organisation where collaboration, creativity and a shared commitment to patients shape everything we do.

InHealth is a place where you're trusted to do your job well, supported by people who value your expertise and give you the space to act on it. Teams show up for each other, leaders back your judgment and help remove blockers rather than create them.

Current opportunities open as we grow - whether that's progressing, moving sideways or taking on something different as your strengths evolve. And everything we do is focussed on making healthcare better - for patients, partners and the people delivering care.

Read more about us here: Who We Are - InHealth Group.

📌 Senior Buyer (Beaconsfield)
🏢 InHealth Group
📍 Beaconsfield