Procurement Assistant

2 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom NHS Supply Chain Full time

**Job Posted**:7 May 2024
**Job Updated**:7 May 2024

**Job Title**:Procurement Assistant**

**Function**: Commercial

**Location**:Leeds

**Contract type**:Permanent**

**Salary**:£24,735 with potential to rise to £29,100 over 3 years**

**Closing Date**:21st** May 2024**

We have a great opportunity for a Procurement Assistant within our Commercial Diagnostic team.

The Procurement Assistant will work as an integral member of the category teams, ensuring the procurement processes are managed within identified KPIs. They will support the delivery of the end-to-end procurement process for our customers/stakeholders, working to always deliver a high level of customer service to all stakeholders ensuring that relationships and processes are managed effectively allowing overall targets to be achieved.

**Every day you will **
- Achieve specific procurement goals or provide support to others while following established procurement systems and protocols Explore and develop a strong understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their** **potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organisation.
- Gather and report on information on existing contract performance and provide as input to the new contract process.
- Carry out simple contract management tasks.Conduct research using primary data sources and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends.
- Extract relevant data from information provided by others and input it into spreadsheets or standard formats.
- Develop working knowledge of the organization’s policies and procedures and of regulatory codes and codes of conduct relevant to own work, adhering to mandatory procedures to ensure own work is undertaken to the required standards.
- Support stakeholder engagement by arranging actions, meetings, and events.
- Collect and collate information on the key cost drivers, market dynamics and issues, areas of innovation, and alternative suppliers for more senior colleagues to provide solid market information for decision making.
- Provide a quality service to customers while identifying opportunities to secure new business or support retention. Responsibilities may include processing cases, dealing with complex queries and investigating and resolving customer problems.

**What can we offer you?**

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

- Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
- We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
- We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
- A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
- Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
- 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
- Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

**NHS Supply Chain, who are we?**

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

**What skills will help you thrive in this role?**
- Experience working on Microsoft Office.
- Experience working with Excel at an advanced level.
- Ideally previous experience within a commercial environment.
- Develops and delivers communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. For example, listens attentively and takes an interest. Keeps others well informed; conveys information clearly, concisely, and professionally when speaking or writing.
- Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, finds many ways to add value to the team; probes to draw out richer input from others; is a valued resource who goes out of the way to help others.
- Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on analysing data fro


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