Job title: Junior Buyer

Reports to: Supply Chain Manager

Location: Onsite at our HQ located at Manchester Science Park

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

About Yourgene Health:

Yourgene Health offers a comprehensive suite of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) solutions, including a complete NGS workflow designed to provide laboratories with flexible, scalable testing and a broad clinical menu, tailored to their needs. In addition, Yourgene also offer a NIPT sample service for healthcare professionals.

Supporting the wider reproductive lifecycle, Yourgene offer a portfolio of PCR-based clinical screening assays, including tests for cystic fibrosis, aneuploidy analysis, pregnancy loss, male factor infertility, and thrombosis risk.

As part of the expanding Precision Medicine portfolio, the Yourgene® DPYD genotyping PCR assay supports safer chemotherapy regimes, by identifying patients at risk of severe fluoropyrimidine toxicity.

Powered by Ranger® Technology, Yourgene’s portfolio of automated DNA size selection instruments delivers high-precision fragment selection and dynamic target enrichment across a wide range of clinical and research sequencing applications. Designed to support laboratories from low- to high-throughput workflows, Ranger® instruments provide an innovative solution for applications including NIPT, gene synthesis, CRISPR gene editing, and long-read sequencing.

Yourgene Health is part of the Novacyt Group of companies and is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Singapore and Canada.

Our Culture:

Yourgene is a growing, vibrant and exciting place to work, we are looking for committed driven individuals to be part of our next growth journey. Our culture is described by our employee's as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open and fast paced. We have plenty of social and well-being initiatives run by our Nova Social & Charity Huddle that keep our sense of community alive and allow us to be part of charity fundraisers. At Yourgene, we focus on putting values led programmes in place to ensure that we can attract, retain and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene and we ensure that they are recognised and rewarded for their achievements and commitment, everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.

Description of role:

Yourgene Health is seeking an enthusiastic and organised Junior Buyer with the skills and experience to contribute to the smooth running of the procurement & planning team. The Junior Buyer will support the Supply Chain Manager in both tactical planning and procurement and strategic projects for the wider group. You will be based onsite at our Manchester HQ and this is a full-time and permanent role.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Purchase materials required for production schedule
• Review purchase requisitions to create purchase orders ensuring compliance to purchasing policies.
• Accurately process purchase orders and expedite to ensure on time in full delivery.
• Continually review Supplier Lead times / Price updates
• Communicate with suppliers and key stakeholders any change in schedules and any relevant information required to support efficient material management.
• Assist with sourcing activities, cost saving projects / continuous improvement works.
• Support supplier onboarding and reviews, maintaining compliant, accurate and robust supplier database.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders to support business priorities, to facilitate best practice purchasing.
• Assist with supplier invoice queries as required.
• Liase with internal stakeholders / departments.
• Other Administrative duties as required to support business objectives.

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

• Time management, and high diligence.
• Previous purchasing and or planning experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, ideally Netsuite or Sage.
• Stock Control experience.
• Methodical and organised approach to work
• Computer literate with competence in MS Office

Closing Date:

Sunday 22nd March, 2026

Equal opportunities:

Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives

Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Yourgene Health and Novacyt Group employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written and signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.