What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain effective relationships with suppliers and key stakeholders to support commercial objectives.
• Prepare negotiation strategies through analysis of historical pricing, market intelligence, supplier performance, and commercial benchmarks.
• Conduct detailed pricing, spend, and market analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities, commercial risks, and value creation initiatives.
• Monitor supplier pricing trends, market dynamics, inflationary pressures, and competitive movements to support sourcing and procurement strategies.
• Develop analytical models and reporting to assess pricing performance, supplier behaviour, and category-level opportunities.
• Own or support cross-functional pricing projects from problem definition through analysis, recommendation, implementation and benefit tracking.
• Develop regular reporting that distinguishes submitted activity from value influenced or delivered by the pricing function.
• Produce regular reporting on pricing trends, savings delivery, supplier performance, and procurement initiatives.
• Measure and communicate the financial impact of projects, negotiations, and process improvements.
• Develop supplier scorecards and performance metrics to evaluate commercial performance, responsiveness, reliability, and compliance.
• Monitor supplier activity and identify indicators of commercial risk, value leakage, or performance concerns.

Basic Requirements:

• Typically, minimum 0-2 years of relevant experience. May have degree or equivalent.
• Experience in pricing, commercial analytics, strategic sourcing, finance and/or supplier management.
• Demonstrated ability to convert complex datasets into commercial actions and recommendations.
• Experience preparing for or participating in supplier or customer negotiations.
• Experience assessing financial impact, constructing commercial scenarios and tracking realised value.
• Pharmaceutical, healthcare distribution, procurement or generic-drug market experience preferred.
• Experience delivering analytical or process-improvement projects across multiple function.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Strong commercial judgement and ability to recognise value opportunities beyond basic rule compliance.
• Advanced Excel capability and working knowledge of BI, dashboarding or analytical tools.
• Ability to analyse pricing at product, family, supplier and portfolio levels.
• Confident presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Effective negotiation, influencing and challenge skills.
• Ability to operate within legal, contractual and confidentiality guardrails when providing supplier pricing guidance. Existing guidance materials specifically emphasise avoiding disclosure of one supplier’s pricing or how guidance was derived.
• Ability to balance member economics, sourcing strategy, supplier relationships, compliance and operational feasibility.
• Strong project management skills, including ownership of milestones, risks, benefits and stakeholder actions.

Physical Requirements:

• This is a Hybrid role in London, GBR. Candidate will be required to be onsite 2 days per week.
• This role is Fixed Term (12 months).

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