Senior Buyer

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 laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Working hours are Monday - Friday, 8am-4pm.

This is a hybrid working role.

• To provide strategic purchasing services to the UK Eurofins businesses as part of a centralised purchasing department, for all UK entities.
• To strategically determine, implement and manage a portfolio of direct and indirect spend categories in a way which ensures that they support the core business activities and ensure a safe and efficient working environment.
• To deliver significant savings and value for money on a scope of responsibility whilst increasing the level of product quality, service, and delivery to the business.
• To ensure that all contracts and processes improve efficiency, reduce operating costs, and increase productivity whilst mitigating risk and delivering value to the business.
• To ensure the business meets its moral, environmental, and legal obligations particularly re sustainability and responsible sourcing.
• To deliver best in class purchasing systems and practices to both existing businesses and new acquisitions.
• To be the face for the internal customer to manage all purchasing related activities i.e. service the wider business in line agreed SLA’s and be responsible for end user satisfaction as measured by internal surveys.
• To drive Coupa implementation, Purchase Order compliance, e-catalogue usage, invoice digitization in the respective scope of responsibility.

• Proven experience of working in a strategic purchasing role
• Educated to degree level.
• CIPS qualifications preferable but not essential.
• A customer-focused and practical approach
• Good communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to engage, collaborate and influence.
• High energy, ‘can-do’ attitude, with a drive and a passion to succeed.
• Excellent organisational skills 
• Strong negotiation skills with proven experience in cost management and tendering complex spend categories.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Good knowledge of the legal aspects of purchasing
• Good knowledge of purchasing systems and procedures.
• Experience with Coupa (preferable but not essential) or other purchasing systems (e.g. SAP).
• IT literate

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
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• 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
• Free parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• We also have in place rewards recognising the great work out 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 are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. 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/