Procurement Business Officer

2 weeks ago


Pontypool, United Kingdom NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Full time

An opportunity has arisen for two Procurement Business Officers to join the NWSSP Aneurin Bevan frontline Procurement team based in Mamhilad, Pontypool. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your procurement career in a dynamic, challenging and high profile environment.

As an established Procurement Service we have been assisting the Health Boards and Trusts in the delivery of patient centred services for over 6 years as part of NHS Wales Shared Services. We are an award winning service focusing on value, safety, excellence, innovation and quality.

The Procurement Business Officer role contributes to being the interface of Procurement between NWSSP Local Procurement and our customers and will assist in representing the function at various levels. Additionally the post holder(s) will assist in informing on the status/priority of category work plans across Health Boards / Trust. This will involve liaison with user departments and the NWSSP at all levels to promote procurement input into partner organisations’ business plans at the earliest opportunity.

The post holder(s) will support the Procurement Business Manager in the provision of a professional procurement service to the Health Board / Trust contributing to the development and achievement of the NWSSP Business plan. The post holder will support the Procurement Business Manager on procurement issues and on key projects.

The post holder(s) will ensure that the service is sensitive, responsive and flexible to the changing needs of the users balanced against the need to remain cost effective. The main task being to provide a strong and effective professional focus leading to the achievement of National, NWSSP and local agreed targets, efficiencies and added value initiatives.

To present the NWSSP as a progressive, proactive, responsive and innovative concern in order to generate and drive uptake of negotiated contracts. Working closely with partnership organisations to influence choice, prioritise change and deliver savings, process improvement and product standardisation, driving cost down and quality and service up. Work closely with colleagues across the Procurement function and Partner organisations to promote joint approaches to solving service issues.

The team is based in Mamhilad, Pontypool with some element of home/agile working as part of the role.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for these posts; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

We have high standards and expect everyone to embrace our values of Listening & Learning, Working Together, Taking Responsibility & Innovating, whilst ensuring trust, honesty and compassion are implicit in everything that we do. We are adaptable, agile and flexible and pride ourselves on being a learning organisation - one where it is safe to make mistakes, where blame is replaced by opportunity, learning and improvement. Innovation is built into everything that we do. We recognise our people regularly and have an Appreciation Station, to encourage staff to applaud exemplary behaviour in one another, alongside an Annual Staff Recognition Award ceremony aligned to our values. We respect and value our people and strive for a culture of compassion and inclusivity. We are a bilingual organisation, and we have a team of Change Champions who advocate ‘This is Our NWSSP’ our principal change programme. Similarly, PROUD is our new staff network welcoming LGBT+ colleagues and allies to come together in a safe space for discussions, event planning and the opportunity to build supportive networks. We have a comprehensive benefits package where there is something for everyone, supporting health, engagement and wellbeing and includes an Employee Assistance Programme. We have over 30 Mental Health First Aiders and work in partnership with local and national organisations to ensure the well-being and resilience of our people.



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