Team – Procurement
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time, 35 hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Strong experience in data interrogation and insight generation
- Advanced stakeholder influencing and communication
- Proven sourcing and commercial delivery
What this role is all about:
We are looking for a commercially minded and data-driven Procurement Performance Specialist, on a 12-month FTC, to support the delivery of value, performance, and strategic outcomes across the Procurement function. Working closely with the Head of Procurement Operations, this role is focused on analysing performance, leading sourcing initiatives, and driving continuous improvement to maximise supplier value and optimise cost. The position plays a key role in shaping procurement strategy, enhancing supplier performance, and partnering with stakeholders across the business to deliver measurable impact and long-term value.
Key Actions
- Work closely with the Head of Procurement Operations to assist on the delivery of key strategic projects for the Procurement department, liaising with key business functions such as Risk and Audit
- Leading on the Procurement team’s strategy and governance framework, through organisation of key committees and forums, and driving the actions and results from those
- Manage the performance targets of the Procurement team, through the regular measurement of performance against set objectives
- Utilisation of data to monitor these targets to understand current performance and trends
- Driving forward continuous enhancements and improvements to demand increased performance
- Identify and deliver value through spend reduction opportunities, supplier consolidation and value adding activities
- Utilise existing knowledge and conduct market research to identify potential suppliers, define the preferred sourcing solution and manage any competitive (RFI/RFP) exercises to meet business and commercial requirements, and negotiate the best deals possible with short-listed suppliers to achieve the best value for Vitality
- Supporting Supplier Management best practice across the organisation through management of our supplier management framework to ultimately seek further value from our third-party engagements
What do you need to thrive?
- Be fascinated by data, and importantly be able to interrogate data to produce results and enhanced performance
- Be adept at critical thinking, to consistently seek continuous improvement from themself and others
- Exceptionally well organised, being capable of effectively managing workload and prioritising demand of a whole department in order to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations
- Possess an exceptional level of proficiency of desktop applications including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
- Be adept at thinking logically and analytically, with the ability to effectively understand, summarise, and make recommendations on complex subjects
- Be confident in communicating, influencing, and networking with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally
- Possess a great attention to detail and a strong desire to seek ways to deliver continuous improvement
- Have a proven track record in a sourcing environment, delivering key projects for stakeholders
- Show a broad understanding of contract drafting, service definition, performance and commercial structures
- Show a strong understanding of supplier management, including analysis to mitigate risk through contingency planning, and driving initiatives to seek greater performance
So, what’s in it for you?
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
- Be there for you when you need us
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.