Procurement Assistant - Nhs

Commercial Procurement Buyer - NHS

Key Details:
- Role: NHS Procurement Buyer
- Day rate: 170 per day (inside IR35)
- Contract duration: initial 3 months - Start date: ASAP
- Remote or Hybrid work options available

Adecco has partnered up with a well-known NHS department who are seeking an additional Procurement Buyer to join their dynamic team. The NHS organisation demonstrates defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to their customers. Their focus is on building a team to change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers. The procurement Buyer will support all procurement activities within the department.

You will contribute towards increasing savings for NHS; delivering year-on-year cash releasing and cost avoidance savings via category management, sourcing and supplier rationalisation. You will support, actively engage, and collaborate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and other public sector bodies to embed and deliver the Commercial strategy. The successful candidate will develop effective partnerships, to improve customer satisfaction and engagement to ensure the needs of differing customers are identified and met.
Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting in delivering a pipeline of procurements, primarily in the corporate.
• Support running public contracts regulations (2015) compliant procurements which deliver the stakeholder's requirements and ensure the best value for money.
• Helping manage a pipeline of procurements while ensuring stakeholders' expectations are met.
• Supporting in the identification, assessment and management of potential risks associated with differing sourcing strategies.
• Supporting input into Commercial policy and service development, including devising new policies, and working practices to ensure legal compliance and performance against KPIs.
• Assisting internal audit reviews
• Communicating and providing commercial information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience working in a public sector procurement buyer position.
• Skilled in sourcing, project planning and relationship management, category management and supporting negotiating contracts.
• Previous exposure within the NHS is highly desirable.
• System knowledge of ATAMIS.
• Experience working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
  

Qualifications And Training

• Ideally studying towards CIPS or equivalent qualification / experience.
  

This is a great opportunity, if you are interested in being considered for this role, please send your updated CV to the advert.