Vitality
Procurement Business Partner
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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
- Proven Procurement Leadership
- Demonstrated Commercial Negotiation
- Strong Stakeholder Partnership
What This Role Is All About
Vitality is seeking a Procurement Business Partner to join the Procurement team, supporting the People and Property portfolios. This role is responsible for partnering with business stakeholders to shape sourcing strategies, manage supplier relationships, negotiate commercial agreements, and deliver value across a diverse range of business services spend. Working closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and procurement colleagues, the position plays an important role in ensuring commercial decisions support business objectives, operational performance, and regulatory expectations.
Key Actions
- Develop trusted partnerships with stakeholders across People and Property functions to understand business priorities and translate requirements into effective sourcing strategies
- Lead end-to-end procurement activities including requirements gathering, market engagement, supplier evaluation, negotiation, contracting, onboarding, and implementation
- Identify opportunities to improve value through cost optimisation, supplier consolidation, service enhancements, innovation, and risk management
- Provide market insight and category expertise to support informed procurement and supplier decisions
- Support contract drafting, negotiation, and implementation in collaboration with Legal and business stakeholders
- Manage supplier relationships with a focus on performance, service delivery, compliance, risk management, and continuous improvement
- Monitor supplier performance and assurance activities, proactively identifying and addressing risks and issues
- Manage contracts throughout the lifecycle, ensuring value is maximised and contractual obligations are effectively maintained
- Build strong internal and external relationships while providing constructive challenge and commercial guidance
- Contribute to procurement initiatives and business projects, leading sourcing workstreams from concept through to delivery
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What Do You Need to Thrive?
- Experience within a procurement, sourcing, or commercial role delivering measurable business value
- Knowledge of indirect spend categories, ideally within business services, people-related services, property, or facilities management
- Strong commercial negotiation and supplier management experience
- Understanding of contract management, commercial models, supplier performance frameworks, and risk management
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make practical recommendations
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building capability across multiple business levels
- Ability to influence, challenge constructively, and support decision-making processes
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Commitment to continuous improvement and an interest in leveraging AI-enabled ways of working
- MCIPS qualification, or working towards it, would be advantageous
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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!
Our Promise to You
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.
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