Category Buyer - Estates

Are you a Category Buyer within the Public Sector? Do you want to be a part of an award winning organisation?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Procurement Category Buyer to join our successful team on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. You'll support with the delivery of our Soft FM and Sustainable Waste Management Frameworks within our Estates Team and contribute to the allocated commercial projects within key markets, ensuring contract compliance, sustainable cost improvements, and a range of benefits across the healthcare and Public Sector economy.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities. This position is predominantly home based, but there is an expectation to attend our Salford office once/ twice per month and/ or where business needs are required.

What you'll be doing:

• Acting as first point of contact for collaborators of all levels supporting and assisting in an efficient and timely manner in order to establish and build on existing relationships
• Delivering a strategic procurement and commercial service for our Public Sector organisation client partners with an allocated portfolio of categories
• Supporting the Category Managers with collecting, and analysing data to help predict forecasts and trends, handling and processing customer feedback
• Provides a comprehensive and effective sourcing and purchasing function, adhering to mandated compliance and governance standards
• Future proofing contract decisions by conducting robust research and fact-based market intelligence to support the adoption of innovation, evaluation and supporting the evaluation and award process
• Supporting the end-to-end tender process ensuring all parties are well advised

What you’ll bring:

• Understanding and/or experience of procurement processes
• Admin experience with the ability to prioritise workload and good time management
• Transactional procurement experience
• Excellent IT and Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word and Outlook)
• Data input/ extract experience

It would be great if you had:

• Public Sector and/ or NHS experience
• CIPS level 4 or working towards
• Knowledge of Procurement Contract Regulations 2015 and New Procurement Act 2023

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Anywhere UK

Security Clearance Level: Enhanced DBS

Internal Recruiter: Amy

Salary: Up to £30,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.