Jobs at Smith & Nephew

Leads global procurement strategy for consultancy, audit, financial, insurance, and outsourced services. Develops category strategies, conducts strategic sourcing and complex negotiations, manages supplier relationships, optimizes spend, strengthens governance, and advises senior Finance, Legal, and business stakeholders across a global organization.

Leads global Employee Benefits category strategy across healthcare, wellbeing, retirement, benefits administration, consulting, and Total Rewards services. Develops category strategies, negotiates with strategic suppliers, manages supplier relationships, and partners with HR, Total Rewards, senior leaders, and international stakeholders. Uses market intelligence and data-driven insights to optimize programs, manage risk, support transformation, improve employee experience, and deliver measurable commercial value.

Supports corporate governance and statutory compliance across UK and international entities. Responsibilities include Stock Exchange announcements, market disclosures, annual report and AGM preparation, statutory record management, shareholder enquiries, entity management system maintenance, and collaboration with Finance, Treasury, Internal Audit, Communications, and external advisers. The role offers progression toward committee secretary and Assistant Company Secretary responsibilities.

Leads Smith+Nephew’s global software procurement strategy across enterprise applications, SaaS, digital platforms, and AI-enabled technologies. Manages value creation, supplier negotiations, governance, risk, software optimization, and strategic stakeholder partnerships. Serves as Procurement’s AI Champion and leads, coaches, and develops category management talent while advancing AI-enabled procurement capabilities and responsible technology sourcing practices.

Leads the global OT cybersecurity program across a manufacturing network. Defines governance, manages cyber risk, provides technical oversight, aligns environments with IEC 62443 and NIST frameworks, and embeds security by design into OT projects. Coordinates incident response for OT security events and partners with cybersecurity, IT, engineering, and manufacturing stakeholders to support secure modernization while maintaining operational continuity. Develops team capability and drives consistent cybersecurity practices across global sites.

Lead enterprise AI architecture for sourcing and procure-to-pay, translating procurement challenges into scalable AI solutions. Design integrations, workflows, model selection, prompts, grounding, and governance while partnering with Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security and IT. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and drive responsible AI adoption across global sourcing processes.

As a Cluster Business Analyst, you will analyze sales data, optimize processes, and support commercial decision-making for the UK cluster.

The Product Specialist will support orthopaedic revision procedures, drive sales strategies, and collaborate with surgeons and account managers to enhance customer relationships and market presence.

Lead Group Financial Reporting activities across UK and US listed reporting requirements. Manage complex accounting areas (acquisitions, impairments, statutory adjustments), support external filings (e.g., Form 20-F), partner with Treasury, Tax and auditors, and produce technical accounting papers for senior stakeholders within a SOX-controlled environment.

Serve as trusted advisor to Finance and Global Business Services, translating strategy into technology-enabled change. Lead roadmap development, business analysis, requirements definition, and ERP enhancement prioritization. Produce business cases, guide governance and investment decisions, support delivery teams to ensure solutions meet business needs, simplify processes, and realise measurable benefits.

Lead design and delivery of AI-enabled supply chain planning solutions using Kinaxis Maestro. Own solution architecture for forecasting, intelligent workbooks, autonomous agents, integrations, and deployment. Partner with planning and business leaders to define use cases, data architecture, governance, and adoption while mentoring teams and ensuring end-to-end delivery and hypercare.