Buyer

The Procurement Team here at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have 3 x vacancies for the role of Buyer within our Clinical and Non Clinical Teams.

We are seeking highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join our successful team. The post holder/s will work closely with managers within the Team and the Trust's Divisions, clinicians, and finance team to identify opportunities and deliver procurement projects to improve patient care and outcomes whilst delivering cash releasing savings and efficiencies for the Trust’s Cost Improvement Programme.

Proactively manages allocated procurement categories and projects, delivering against agreed timescales and outcomes for a specified Division(s) across the Trust ensuring compliance with current public sector procurement legislative framework, Trust Standing Financial Instructions and local Finance and Procurement policies and procedures.

Identify and achieve potential cash releasing savings from revenue expenditure through proactive benchmarking, market testing, standardisation, and negotiation with suppliers.

Add value and ensure probity through contract compliance and proactive supplier and contract management.

Lead and manage tenders and contracts for a range of goods and services to achieve best value for money for the Trust, delivering to agreed timescales.

Analyse the financial implications of contract awards and communicate to Trust budget holders including formally reporting on the implications of supplier and product changes.

Establish and maintain strategic relationships with stakeholders, identify service and/or cost improvements to increase contract coverage, and improve contract management.

To provide professional procurement advice and training sessions to end users at all levels in respect of the procurement process, including UK regulations and the specification and evaluation of goods and/or services.

Responsible for supervision of Assistant Buyers.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the Northwest of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high-quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider Northwest footprint.

We are looking for a team player who shows initiative, is logical, good at analysing and interpreting information and data from different sources, and who can identify and present options and recommendations and manage procurement projects from planning through to contract award and management. This role requires the postholder to manage a demanding and full programme of work, and to be accountable for the successful delivery of their own work plan and will be working within a procurement environment that is rigorously performance managed.

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Work Planning & Procurement
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To provide Procurement support for a designated categories and allocated projects under the direction of the Senior Procurement Manager, delivering against agreed timescales and outcomes for a specified Division(s) across the Trust.
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To develop category strategies for designated categories that will feed into the Procurement Strategy for the Trust.
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Analyse the financial implications of contract awards and communicate to Trust budget holders including formally reporting on the implications of supplier and product changes.
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To provide professional advice to users in respect of the procurement process, including UK regulations and the specification and evaluation of goods and/or services.
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Support the Procurement Managers leading and/or supporting collaborative procurement programmes including representing the Trust at collaborative working groups.
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Undertake proactive contract management for your designated categories.
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To keep appraised of accessible framework agreements and other collaborative opportunities and to analyse the potential benefits to the Trust.
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Responsible for ensuring value for money, development of auditable evaluation methodologies and achieving appropriate sign off in respect of all procurement decisions.
- Duties and Key Tasks
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To identify procurement project lead times including risks and mitigation strategies, taking account of whole life cycle costing issues and make recommendations to the Trust accordingly clearly identifying any cost implications.
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To support the wider procurement team to provide a service in respect of allocated projects defined including project plan and monitoring, supporting procurement of high value contracts, ensuring value for money, the development of auditable evaluation methodologies and achieving appropriate sign off in respect of all procurement decisions.
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Liaise with stakeholders and other project representatives to determine precise requirements in terms of specification and other clinical or user-based requirements and advise accordingly.
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