Senior Buyer - London, United Kingdom - Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Description
Senior Buyer band 6We are looking for a Senior Buyer to lead two of our buying teams based at two of our Trusts - Royal Marsden (based at West Middx hospital) and West London NHS Trust.
The Senior Buyer is responsible for management of a delivery team of buyers and for ensuring that the service is delivered against agreed key performance indicators.
The Senior Buyer is expected to ensure good levels of customer service and to take a proactive role in identifying and fixing issues, helping improve service delivery and is expected to work under their own initiative.
North West London Procurement Services ("NWL PS") is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all members ("NWL Members").
The Senior Buyer will work under the direction of the Head of Buying and shall be responsible for ensuring that team members are managed effectively to ensure high levels of productivity and customer service.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Supporting member trusts in buying goods and services, in a timely manner, whilst complying with relevant governance arrangements, including Trust SFIs whilst accepting that responsibility for complying with these arrangements is a shared responsibility.
- Supporting the Relationship Manager and other stakeholders in educating users around their responsibilities to ensure good buying practice, including compliance with Trust SFIs
- Working with others to put in place and support frictionless buying process, where the requirement for buying team intervention is maintained at the lowest possible level.
- Ensuring that buying team resources are managed as effectively as possible to ensure high levels of productivity and customer service. This includes working to achieve and exceed Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and service improvement targets.
We can offer you:
A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of Purchase Order Process systems in particular Oracle SBS (and ideally Integra)
- Experience of transactional procurement and delivering against Key Performance Indicators and Standard Financial Instructions
- Ability to prioritise workload and ability to provide leadership to a team by role modelling expected standards of behaviour
- Good communication skills both written & verbal
- Ability to work under pressure
- Flexible approach to both hours and work
- Ability to work on own initiative and problem solve
- Ability to manage own workload and that of the team
- Results focused and customer focused
- Knowledge of Integra
- Experience of working within an NHS environment
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ.
Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background.
CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
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