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Global Buyer - Direct Procurement

Unilabs

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Porto, Porto District, Portugal
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About Unilabs

Headquartered in Geneva and part of the A.P. Moller Group, Unilabs is one of Europe’s leading medical diagnostics companies, offering a complete range of laboratory, pathology, genetics, and imaging services to patients across 14 countries. Unilabs invests heavily in technology, equipment, and people – using digital technologies in its state-of-the-art laboratories and imaging institutes – to improve the lives of close to 100 million people every year.

Role Purpose

The Global Buyer reports directly to the Head of Direct Procurement and provides analytical, commercial, and sourcing support across all global direct procurement activities. This role requires a highly analytical and commercially minded procurement professional capable of integrating supplier, financial, operational, and market data to generate meaningful insights and enable fact based decision making.

The Global Buyer will support global tenders and category initiatives across equipment, services, maintenance, consumables, and related solutions.

Key Responsibilities.Procurement & Commercial Analysis

  • Conduct, together with Category Managers, detailed analysis of supplier proposals, pricing structures, commercial terms, and cost drivers.
  • Develop and maintain CAPEX, OPEX, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models.
  • Analyse supplier proposals and commercial submissions to support sourcing decisions.
  • Build scenarios and sensitivity analyses to support supplier evaluation and award recommendations.
  • Perform price–volume, benchmarking, market, and opportunity analysis.
  • Support execution of global category strategies and sourcing initiatives.
  • Provide fact based insights to strengthen supplier negotiations and identify commercial opportunities.
  • Build effective working relationships with Operations, Medical/Clinical teams, Finance, Legal, local procurement, and other key stakeholders across markets.
  • Work closely with Operations to collect, structure, validate, and analyse operational data required for sourcing and investment decisions.
  • Gather information on equipment requirements, installed base, utilization, volumes, service performance, replacement needs, specifications, and other operational parameters.
  • Proactively follow up with stakeholders to close data gaps and ensure timely completion of sourcing activities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in supply chain, Procurement, Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Data Analytics, or related field.
  • Approximately 3–10 years of experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Purchasing, Procurement Analytics, or Supply Chain.
  • Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, particularly Operations teams, within manufacturing or production environments
  • Experience in healthcare, medical devices, diagnostics, technology, or other CAPEX‑intensive industries is an advantage.
  • Experience in an international or multi‑country environment is preferred.

Critical Analytical Skills

  • Advanced Excel (PivotTables, XLOOKUP/INDEX MATCH, complex formulas, data consolidation, scenario modelling).
  • Strong numerical and financial analytical capabilities.
  • TCO, CAPEX, and OPEX modelling.
  • Spend, price, and volume analysis.
  • Supplier bid normalization and comparison.
  • Scenario and sensitivity analysis.
  • Ability to combine procurement, supplier, financial, and operational datasets.
  • Strong ability to identify data gaps, inconsistencies, trends, risks, and commercial opportunities.
  • Power BI or similar business intelligence tools highly desirable.

Key Competencies

  • Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail.
  • Strong stakeholder management and cross functional collaboration skills.
  • Commercially minded and comfortable challenging supplier proposals and internal assumptions.
  • Able to engage Operations and other stakeholders to obtain accurate data and understand underlying business requirements.
  • Structured, rigorous, and fact based approach to problem solving.
  • Able to work independently within the category strategy defined by the Global Category Manager.
  • Confident communicating with suppliers and stakeholders across countries and organizational levels.
  • Proactive, curious, accountable, and solution oriented.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means becoming the analytical and commercial backbone of the Category Managers—providing reliable data, strong sourcing execution, and stakeholder coordination.

The successful candidate will actively engage stakeholders, gather and challenge operational data, and effectively support the sourcing activities of the Global Direct Procurement team.

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