FCm Travel Solutions awarded government procurement contract
03-09-2010
A travel company has been awarded a major contract by a government procurement agency.
Public sector procurement cutbacks 'hurting suppliers'
03-09-2010
Cutbacks across government departments have contributed to a rise in insolvencies among suppliers, research suggests.
Exciting Career Opportunities
About Bupa
Bupa is a leading international healthcare company. Established in 1947, it has over ten million customers in more than 190 countries and employs over 52,000 people around the world.
Its main interests are health insurance, care homes for young disabled and older people, workplace health services, health assessments and chronic disease management services, including health coaching and healthcare services in the home.
While Bupa’s largest and original business is in the UK, it has significant operations around the world including Sanitas in Spain, MBF, HBA, Mutual Community in Australia, IHI in Denmark and Health Dialog in the US. Bupa also has businesses in Hong Kong, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, India, China and Latin America. In addition, Bupa Care Services owns care homes in Spain, Australia and New Zealand.
Bupa has no shareholders. They reinvest their money to provide better healthcare for their customers, helping them to live longer, happier, healthier lives.
In this tough economic climate Bupa has posted strong results, reporting a 26% rise in revenues to £3.38bn for the first 6 months of 2009 and pre-Tax profits up 1% to £163.8m.
Vision: Taking care of the lives in our hands
Mission: Helping people live longer happier healthier lives
Values: Accountable, caring, respectful, enabling, ethical and dedicated
Procurement at Bupa
Bupa has a group procurement function based in London, headed by the Group Purchasing & Property Director, Mark Ralf, who reports into the main board through the Finance Director. Mark has been recognised by CIPS as "one of the superstars of purchasing". The group procurement function provides a strategic procurement service. Like many corporate organisations, procurement is not mandated so key to the success of the function is its ability to engage with stakeholders, influence key decisions and deliver value.
The function manages a spend of c£400m covering corporate spend, IT and food, hotel and site services. The procurement team is structured according to these categories, with an additional team managing procurement process and systems.
The procurement function follows a best practice strategic sourcing methodology and supplier management programme, supported by a comprehensive category management toolkit – Smart Source, and a range of e-tools. Group Procurement at Bupa focuses on providing the most effective supplier base to enable Bupa to meet its strategic objectives.
Bupa has grown significantly since it was established in the 1940s by both organic growth and acquisition. As a result in addition to managing the ongoing business requirements, the procurement function seeks to assist the overseas businesses in setting up and operating their procurement functions.
Opportunities at Bupa
Bupa is looking to recruit a number of talented procurement professionals over the coming months who:
- demonstrate a passion for procurement
- have a high level of commercial acumen
- demonstrate a clear ability to influence stakeholders and build strong internal and external relationships
- are committed to providing high levels of customer service
- are capable of managing a number of projects and stakeholders at any one time.
Bupa is committed to the on-going development of its procurement professionals and can offer challenge and variety, along with the continued support for professional development such as CIPS.
We are currently recruiting a number of roles on behalf of Bupa.
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