Buyer (Band B)

1 month ago


Keighley, United Kingdom AGH Solutions Ltd Full time

The Procurement department at Airedale General Hospital is part of AGH Solutions LTD, a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

The Procurement team pride themselves on providing excellent customer service to their customers and we aspire to be the best we can be, assisting clinical areas in providing the best clinical care to patients and users within the hospital and community.

We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic, confident and has good analytical skills.

You will have good communication skills, be computer literate on basic software systems such as Microsoft Office.

Your main responsibilities will be working in the Purchasing Team in the delivery of an optimally cost-effective service, complete with on target savings delivery in the context of the level of organisational change underway, all the while enhancing and developing customer relationships.

AGH Solutions is committed to allowing its employees to work dynamically with a combination of working on site and remotely, where possible.

Providing a high-quality professional Procurement service to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust and other partners ensuring compliance with legislation, national and local policies.

Promoting across both Trust Boards, supports the Senior Buyer with all strategic procurement issues with a view to maximising the savings potential across the patch with more efficient and effective purchasing arrangements with a contribution to both Trust’s non-pay expenditure.

Supports the Senior Buyer with the development of the purchasing team, specifically by:

- Increasing purchasing coverage to all key areas of non-pay spend
- Working with Managers/Budget Holders in the identification of savings opportunities monitoring and reporting progress as required.
- Promoting the strategic direction of the purchasing team by attendance and participation in service-wide key working groups.

Supports the Senior Buyer by focussing effort towards reducing clinical risk by developing future product standardisation and adopting formal category management approach with purchasing expertise over specialist commodity knowledge.

Supports the Senior Buyer to manage a range of healthcare related procurement activity increasing procurement influence, securing recurring financial savings by examining the non-traditional areas of non-pay spend which have been traditionally assessed as being uninfluenceable spend.

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification



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