Manager/ Senior Manager - Procurement

JD_Manager/ Senior Manager - Procurement

Role Overview

MediBuddy is seeking a Senior Manager – Procurement to support the company’s ambitious growth plans by owning pricing, vendor onboarding, and procurement across strategic categories, including labs and diagnostics. The role will be instrumental in executing procurement strategies, onboarding key partners, driving pricing negotiations, and supporting financial discipline through cost optimization.

The ideal candidate will bring a hands-on, data-driven approach to procurement, with demonstrated experience in managing vendor networks and pricing models in high-growth or healthcare-focused environments. This role will report to the Head of Procurement.

Key Attributes

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  Execution-Focused: Ability to implement sourcing plans, pricing strategies, and vendor agreements across categories.

  
  


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  Negotiation Skills: Comfortable driving commercial conversations and securing value-based terms.

  
  


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  Stakeholder Collaboration: Experience working cross-functionally with business, finance, product, and operations teams.

  
  


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  Healthcare Acumen: Exposure to lab, diagnostics, and healthcare vendor ecosystems is a strong advantage.
  
  

  
  

Key Responsibilities

Procurement & Sourcing Execution

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  Implement sourcing plans for key categories including diagnostics, hospitals, technology, services, and corporate functions.

  
  


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  Manage procurement pricing strategy across lab tests, consultations, and bundled services.

  
  


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  Support RFQs, RFPs, and vendor pooling where relevant to drive cost efficiency.
  
  

  
  

Vendor Onboarding & Management

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  Identify and onboard new labs, diagnostic partners, and service providers across geographies.

  
  


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  Conduct commercial and quality due diligence during partner evaluation.

  
  


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  Drive ongoing vendor performance monitoring and compliance enforcement.
  
  

  
  

Negotiations & Pricing

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  Lead price negotiations to optimize cost while maintaining quality and SLA commitments.

  
  


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  Align pricing structures with internal margin, service delivery, and affordability goals.

  
  


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  Manage credit terms and payment cycles in collaboration with Finance.
  
  

  
  

Compliance & Coordination

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  Ensure adherence to procurement policies, documentation standards, and audit readiness.

  
  


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  Collaborate with Legal and Compliance on contracts and service agreements.

  
  


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  Monitor category spend, pricing benchmarks, and performance metrics.
  
  

  
  

Qualifications & Skills

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  Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field; MBA preferred.

  
  


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  5–9 years of relevant procurement experience, preferably in healthcare, health-tech, or high-growth startups.

  
  


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  Hands-on experience with vendor pricing, sourcing execution, and negotiations.

  
  


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  Strong analytical and stakeholder management skills.

  
  


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  Familiarity with diagnostic/lab procurement and pricing frameworks is a plus.

  
  

Additional Requirements

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  Willingness to travel up to 30–40% for vendor evaluation and negotiations.

  
  


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  Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a strong sense of ownership.

  
  

What We Offer

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  A chance to shape procurement execution in one of India’s most impactful digital healthcare platforms.

  
  


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  Exposure to strategic pricing and sourcing decisions at scale

  
  

About MediBuddy

MediBuddy is India’s largest on-demand, full-stack digital healthcare platform that helps patients access multiple healthcare services. It gives users 24x7 access to high-quality healthcare at their fingertips. MediBuddy helps its users consult specialist doctors, order medicines and book lab tests from the comfort of their homes. It is also a partner to several leading corporate customers in the country and helps their employees access multiple healthcare benefits. MediBuddy users have access to online doctor consultations, wellness, preventive care services, fitness and hospitalization offered by its pan-India network of healthcare providers with its unparalleled reach.

It also provides its customers hassle-free, end-to-end surgery care through a Care Buddy, right from connecting them to the right surgeon to post-operative recovery care. MediBuddy’s surgery care provides specialized treatment in several other departments like Proctology, Ophthalmology, Vascular, ENT, Orthopaedics, Urology, Gynaecology, and more. With full-stack Surgery Care management services, MediBuddy assures customers an array of solutions for every medical, financing, insurance, and recovery need of its customers undergoing surgery.

The digital healthcare platform has a partner network of 90,000+ doctors, 7,100+ hospitals and clinics, 4,000+ diagnostic centers, 2,500+ pharmacies along with a team size of 2200+ members. It has created an integrated healthcare ecosystem that offers patients seamless access anytime and anywhere. It has created an integrated healthcare ecosystem that offers patients seamless access anytime and anywhere in 10 minutes. With its healthcare services available in 16 Indian languages to enable customer-friendly consultation, MediBuddy is bridging the Urban-Rural quality healthcare divide. MediBuddy offers online and offline doctor consultations, medicine delivery, lab tests at home, mental health consultations, surgery care, among other healthcare services.