About this role
Job summary
This Buyer position will sit within our Clinical category team.
Partner Trusts have established the Partners Procurement Service (PPS) in order to improve their combined procurement effectiveness and deliver better value for money.
The participating Partner Trusts are:
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MEH)
Great Ormand Street NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH)
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (RFL)
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust (WH)
The PPS is jointly and equally owned by all Partner Trusts and is hosted by WH. But staff may be asked to work at any site.
The rationale for the creation of the PPS is to establish a shared service able to improve the quality of a wide range of procurement services, deliver a more cost effective procurement and supply chain solution and enhance the non-pay benefits to each Partner Trust.
Main duties of the job
The role of Buyer encompasses the following:
1. To play an important role in tendering and providing quotations for the purchase of goods and services for the Partner Trusts;
2. To work principally on his/her own initiative in undertaking the complete tender cycle process, but with support for larger tenders, to deliver purchasing benefits and obtaining best value for goods and services procured for the Partner Trusts;
3. To performance manage contracts once they are let in order to maintain a healthy and constructive supplier relationship;
4. To source products and services through a quote or tender process and assisting in the maintenance of the e-procurement system for the contracts to which the post-holder has been given delegated responsibilities;
5. To undertake research and development on clinical products as required;
6. To ensure that contracts operate as designed and lead on investigating and resolving supply related problems on behalf of Partner Trusts; and
7. To undertake any additional tasks allocated by senior management.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
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Job description Job responsibilities
The role of Buyer encompasses the following:
1. To play an important role in tendering and providing quotations for the purchase of goods and services for the Partner Trusts;
2. To work principally on his/her own initiative in undertaking the complete tender cycle process, but with support for larger tenders, to deliver purchasing benefits and obtaining best value for goods and services procured for the Partner Trusts;
3. To performance manage contracts once they are let in order to maintain a healthy and constructive supplier relationship;
4. To source products and services through a quote or tender process and assisting in the maintenance of the e-procurement system for the contracts to which the post-holder has been given delegated responsibilities;
5. To undertake research and development on clinical products as required;
6. To ensure that contracts operate as designed and lead on investigating and resolving supply related problems on behalf of Partner Trusts; and
7. To undertake any additional tasks allocated by senior management.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Educated and attained a pass in 5 GCE (A-C)), including mathematics and English at this standard.
Experience Essential
Knowledge of acute hospital sector buying and local buying procedures.
Desirable
Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Skills Essential
Capable of undertaking analytical tasks and manipulation of spreadsheets (assessed prior to employment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)