Senior Buyer/category Buyer
4 days ago
The Trust is looking for an experienced and dynamic procurement professional to help it deliver its challenging savings targets.
This role reports directly into the Head of Category Management.
The core attributes required in the role are; the ability to source and analyse data, influence stakeholders to accept change, improve the patient pathway and experience, work to a specific plan and support and inspire the team to work more strategically and commercially.
Ideally you will have experience of managing complex project spends with a value in excess of £500k, experience of procuring capital equipment (CAPEX) and a clear and proven track record of procurement savings with a strong commercial acumen.
You will have a strong background in delivering commercial success and will need to be a team player, strong communicator, experienced negotiator, innovative thinker and patient.
The key message is simple -“every pound we save is a pound more for patient care”. Can you play your part in this journey?
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.
We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.
We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work hard to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics. MTW also has active Disability, LGBT+ and Cultural Ethnic Minorities Networks to bring staff together and in act positive change
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**Interview Date**: To be confirmed
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