Package Description
- Competitive salaries
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Excellent training & development opportunities
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Paid Holidays
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Workplace pension scheme
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Staff Discount
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Travel Loans and more…..
Overview of the role
Join Wardles, part of Bestway Healthcare, and play a key role in growing our surgical category and developing new sourcing opportunities across the UK and Europe.
Wardles was the UK’s first Dispensing Appliance Contractor and is a sister company to Bestway Medhub. We work closely with pharmacies and dispensing doctors, helping them increase the margin they make on over 4,000 of their most commonly stocked products.
We're now looking for a PI Surgical Buyer to join our Commercial Team and lead buying and procurement activity across Wardles' surgical category, with particular accountability for parallel import (PI) purchasing.
This is a hands-on commercial role, combining procurement, supplier negotiation and category development. You'll be responsible for sourcing products, developing new UK and European supply routes, managing supplier relationships and identifying opportunities to improve availability, resilience and margin.
Main Responsibilities
- Manage buying and procurement across Wardles’ surgical category, including branded and PI products.
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Develop new UK and European PI supply routes and build strong supplier relationships.
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Negotiate pricing, volumes, lead times and commercial terms to improve margin and supply.
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Manage purchase orders, supplier performance, stock levels and product availability.
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Identify new products and commercial opportunities to develop the surgical portfolio.
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Work with internal teams to align buying decisions with demand, stock and customer requirements.
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Resolve supplier, delivery, pricing and invoice issues quickly and effectively.
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Use data and market insight to support procurement decisions and continuous improvement.
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Maintain accurate product, supplier, pricing and procurement records.
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Attend supplier meetings, exhibitions and industry events where required.
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Support wider commercial and procurement activities across the team.
The Ideal Candidate
- Proven experience in buying, procurement, supply chain or category purchasing, ideally within surgical, medical, healthcare, pharmaceutical or other regulated products.
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Knowledge of the DAC market, including key manufacturers, supply routes and parallel import dynamics, would be highly advantageous.
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A track record of delivering commercial value through supplier negotiation, cost control, margin improvement and product availability.
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Ability to build and manage strong supplier relationships across UK and European markets.
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Commercially astute and analytical, with the ability to use data to inform decisions, identify opportunities and support strategy.
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Organised, self-motivated and able to manage priorities in a fast-paced commercial environment.
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A proactive problem solver with the confidence to challenge existing processes, drive improvement and support change.
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Willingness to travel for supplier visits, exhibitions or meetings where required.
Bestway Healthcare is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
About The Company
With the purpose of improving the lives of our patients and customers, Bestway Healthcare supports communities across the United Kingdom and Ireland through an extensive network of community pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesale depots.
Our wholesale business unit operates two pharmaceutical wholesale brands, Lexon and Bestway Medhub which combined support over 5,000 independent community pharmacy contractors, processing over 100m packs of medication every year making us the 4th largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the United Kingdom. Our wholesale business unit also operates a leading appliance wholesaler, Wardle’s, a generic supplier Key Pharmaceuticals. We operate from 3 distribution centres with a fleet of vans delivering to independent pharmacies & directly to the most vulnerable patients every day.
