Strategic Procurement Lead in Oxford

Do you want to make a difference while advancing your career? Come join Osler.

We are a UK diagnostics company whose purpose is to enable anyone, anywhere, to access, understand, and act on their health, to live healthier, happier, and longer lives.

We are realising this through the development of the Osler Origin – a 'portable lab' capable of performing a wide range of testing, with lab-quality performance, in a portable, rapid, low-cost, and easy-to-use manner. The Osler Origin will offer a wide portfolio of diagnostic tests and serve all major healthcare settings, globally.

The Osler Origin is powered by a portfolio of novel techniques and approaches for sample addition, microfluidic sample preparation, and electrochemical biosensing, and Osler was formed out of the University of Oxford in 2017, following decades of research.

Having recently completed an $85m Series C fundraise, we are now entering a growth phase, where we are scaling our team as we take the Osler Origin product through regulatory activities, and towards market launch.

Join us and help build a better future.

About the role

We are recruiting for a Strategic Procurement Lead based in Oxford, to build and develop our procurement function and strategic partner capabilities, as well as supporting design verification / validation, clinical and commercial scale up manufacturing activities.

This role is a critical position in the Supply Chain function within Osler, reporting into the Head of Supply Chain. The role will be accountable for developing and sustaining a world class procurement function capable of assisting development, design, clinical and commercial requirements across the business both internally and externally.

Initially, the focus for the incumbent will be on the development and implementation of core strategic procurement processes, procedures, and disciplines throughout the supply chain to instil structure, standardisation and control, so that risk is mitigated, and continuity of high-quality supply is achieved, within the parameters of stringent regulatory requirements.

The role will have immediate line management responsibilities of a procurement specialist but as the business grows and the demand on supply chain expands, the team will also need to evolve to support such growth. As such, a key element to the role will be around development of both individuals within the team and the team itself.

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We offer a competitive benefits package, with a focus on health and well-being - further supporting the belief in our mission to enable anyone, anywhere, to access, understand and act on their health.

There is no perfect candidate, and no single person can do it all, but if this sounds like you, or what you could be and you're looking for somewhere to thrive; we want to hear from you.