- Location
- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · published
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Finance
- Seniority
- Manager
- Source
- Workable
Description
About us
Qureight’s mission is to accelerate clinical trials and ensure breakthroughs in lung and heart disease reach patients without delay. Our AI-powered data and imaging curation platform enables the analysis of clinical imaging and other healthcare data, helping our customers bring treatments to market, faster.
We’re looking for talented people who want their work to matter. With offices in Cambridge and London, you’ll join our multidisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, and engineers. What unites us is our open culture, continuous learning mindset, and a shared mission to help biopharma run faster, smarter trials.
About the role
We are seeking a strategic and results-driven Procurement and Accounts Payable Manager who will be responsible for developing cost-effective procurement strategies, negotiating high-value contracts, and ensuring a resilient supply chain. You will lead our sourcing activities and manage vendor and internal customer relationships as we implement an ApprovalMax PO system in the business. The ideal candidate blends sharp commercial negotiation skills with strong data analysis to drive efficiency across the purchasing operations in the business.
What you will do
Strategic procurement
- Sourcing strategy: Develop and deliver cost efficiency strategies and optimisation of overall spend.
- Vendor management: Identify, evaluate and onboard reliable vendors and monitor their performance against business KPIs.
- Contract negotiation: Lead negotiations on pricing, credit terms, supplier agreements to maximise value and minimise financial risk. For business-critical suppliers, work closely with Legal
Quality compliance (subject to regulatory audit):
- Own and maintain the supplier cycle procedure, including the approved supplier validation list
- Complete the evaluation form for new supplier requests and manage stakeholders by sign posting them to the approved supplier register for selecting existing suppliers
- Carry out credit checks of new suppliers, both controlled critical and uncontrolled suppliers
- Own and maintain the supplier procedure including:
- Establishing and maintaining a third-party contractors register
- Tiering critical service suppliers (A/B/C)
- Maintaining a tender register
- Ensure all procurement activities comply with industry quality standards, legal regulations, and company policy.
Collaboration, reporting and improvement
- Partner with Finance (accounts payable), Legal, and C-Suite to forecast business demand and support PO Approval/Max workflows
- Responsible for updating and maintaining the business purchasing procedure
- Support the Finance team with any ongoing enquiries with the PO ApprovalMax system
- Analyse cost data and market trends to deliver regular reports on expenditure and savings against targets.
- Continuous business process improvements.