Buyer - Bristol, United Kingdom - NHS Blood and Transplant

NHS Blood and Transplant

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Summary

An excellent development opportunity has arisen within the Supplier and Contract Management Team to build on your skills working on contracts in a range of categories and sub-categories initially in the Science sub-team.

You will be part of a dedicated team of procurement professionals responsible for negotiating and managing a variety of business critical commercial contracts and framework agreements for the provision of goods and services to NHSBT.

You will work with the Senior Buyers, Senior Commercial Managers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to manage the contracts end to end, to ensure that all interested parties needs are met.

You will be responsible for assisting the team managers in delivering contracts that are robust, free from risk, legally binding and importantly cost efficient and effective.

Ensuring that NHSBT can demonstrate to the public through the scrutiny of internal and external audit, that it obtains best value for money on its contracted non-pay expenditure and achieves savings targets.

You will ensure compliance with Public Contract Regulations including the legally mandated directives, policy notes and NHSBT Standing Orders and Financial Instructions

Main duties of the job

You will be part of a dedicated team of procurement professionals responsible for negotiating and managing a variety of business critical commercial contracts and framework agreements for the provision of goods and services to NHSBT.
You will be required to support the Procurement Management Team to ensure our customers receive the goods and services they need in a timely manner, resolving and expediting queries as they arise. thus guaranteeing that the blood supply to our hospital customers is not at risk.
You will deal with customer queries, providing advice to ensure the appropriate procurement method is applied, resulting in best value for money
You will be required occasionally to travel, with prior notice
You will ensure compliance with Public Contract Regulations including the legally mandated directives, policy notes and NHSBT Standing Orders and Financial Instructions
You may be required (with notice) to spend time away from base to meet the requirements of the post

About You

Experience and Knowledge

Experience of working in an office environment
Experience of working with Information Technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Knowledge of organising and prioritising a busy and varied workload

Qualifications and Training

Educated to GCSE standard grade C or above including Mathes and English Language or equivalent qualifications and be able to demonstrate relevant experience in this area
Willing to study for NVQ3 level 3/ Foundation stage to member of the charted institue of purchasing and supply

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role.

You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

About Us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, were incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be.

We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families.

We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

Its an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year.

We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

Three small words, one big difference -
Caring, Expert and
Quality.

Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on 24th March 2024.