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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.\nAs Sourcing Team Manager you’ll lead and develop the team of Buyers and Assistant Buyers, ensuring sourcing activity is effectively prioritised, resourced and delivered across the Bupa Global and UK Market Unit. The role is accountable for team performance, capacity management, commercial outcomes, adherence to procurement processes and the consistent delivery of sourcing, contracting and supplier due-diligence activity across all category towers.\nHow you’ll help us make health happen\nThe role manages demand and allocates resources across category towers according to business priority and available capacity. It oversees sourcing activity typically valued under £500,000, including competitive tendering, negotiation, contracting, internal stakeholder management and activity that may carry significant commercial, operational or supplier risk.\nWorking in partnership with Category Managers, Heads of Procurement and business stakeholders, the role ensures delivery aligns with category strategies and procurement priorities. The role owns sourcing-team delivery and operational performance; ownership of category strategy remains with the relevant category lead unless specifically delegated.\nAs a senior commercial leader, the job holder drives value through price, total cost of ownership and demand management, while maintaining effective governance and risk controls. The role provides hands-on commercial leadership for complex, sensitive or escalated sourcing and contracting activity where management intervention is required.\nLeadership and People Management - lead, coach and develop Buyers and Assistant Buyers; set clear objectives and role accountabilities; manage performance, wellbeing, absence, recruitment, onboarding, succession and capability development; and establish effective team ways of working.\nDemand, Capacity and Delivery Management - maintain a consolidated sourcing pipeline; allocate and reallocate work across category towers; review demand against capacity; monitor contract expiries, milestones, ageing and delivery risks; and ensure priorities are progressed efficiently.\nCommercial and Sourcing Oversight - assure the quality of sourcing strategies, tendering, evaluation, negotiation and contracting; support delivery of validated value and savings; act as the escalation point for complex activity; and intervene directly where commercial leadership is required.\nGovernance, Risk and Compliance - ensure the team follows the six-step procurement process, relevant systems and approval requirements, supplier segmentation and due diligence, SARF governance, Delegation of Authority, contract approval and signature controls, and benefit-reporting requirements; escalate late engagement and non-compliance appropriately.\nLead, coach, motivate and develop the team, creating clear accountability and a high-performance culture.\nProvide structured training, coaching, quality assurance and knowledge transfer so team members can fulfil their roles effectively.\nMaintain the team sourcing pipeline and align delivery to category plans, savings opportunities and business priorities.\nAgree sourcing priorities with category leads and business stakeholders, based on value, risk, business need and available capacity.\nFollow and support category risk plans in agreement with Procurement Towers and Bupa’s risk management policies and procedures to mitigate Bupa's exposure to supply chain risks within the categories under management.\nOversee the active timeline for sourcing initiatives\nLead and support the Buyers and Assistant Buyers where they lead contract negotiations on behalf of the Category Manager.\nAct as an escalation point for Buyers and Assistant Buyers and where appropriate directing their activities with assistance from the Head of Procurement or Category Manager as needed.\nLead and support the Buyers and Assistant Buyers to develops innovative solutions by challenging the status quo and business requirements.\nInterfacing with internal customers to ensure requirements are delivered, performance tracked and operational efficiencies are maximised.\nParticipates in team and department meetings and events and is responsible for communicating and advocating procurement throughout the organisation. \nMaintain personal integrity with regards to commercial confidentiality and conduct supplier relationships with the highest standard of ethical conduct and set and maintain the same expectation for the team of Buyers and Assistant Buyers.\nCreation, monitoring and reporting of appropriate team KPIs.\nPerformance management of all team members.\nIdentify and propose process and system improvements.\nKey Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:\nIdeally holds a Graduate Degree (e.g. BA, BSc, MEng) or relevant equivalent experience.\nDesirable MCIPS qualified or is studying towards this qualification\n5 years + sourcing experience and expertise\nEvidence of sourcing a wide range of products and services within the remit of Indirects, including IT.\nExperience of delivering savings through driving sourcing and category procurement activities\nExcellent communication skills\nComprehensive experience of working closely with internal stakeholders to ensure a successful commercial outcome\nRecent and relevant experience of leading cross functional/business unit teams\nBenefits\nOur 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.\nJoining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:\n25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell\nBupa health insurance as a benefit in kind\nAn enhanced pension plan and life insurance\nOnsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available\nVarious other benefits and online discounts\nWhy Bupa?\nWe’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.\nWe 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.\nBupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. 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