Assistant Buyer

2 months ago


Wolverhampton, United Kingdom University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust Full time

Provide customer liaison and helpdesk services, managing telephone enquiries, providing advice and resolving queries and problems. Obtaining verbal pricing and obtaining competitive quotations from Suppliers which requires negotiation and influencing skills. Contribute to the Departments savings targets and ensure a monthly savings return is submitted to the Supply Chain Manager. To be responsible for a range of low value contracts including the conduct of competitive quotation exercises, under supervision of the Supply Chain Manager.

Ensure all Operations contract renewals are dealt with efficiently and effectively. To interpret and action electronic requisitions and the placement of orders so as to ensure that goods and services are ordered in an efficient and timely manner. To conduct buying activity in accordance with Trust procedures, Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Professional Codes of Practice and their relevant regulations. To develop positive relations with user departments and to ensure that a high standard of customer service is provided.

To maintain and develop a sound knowledge of products and suppliers and to actively promote the use of current or new suppliers to service users where these meet their needs and represent best value Research alternative products and highlight standardisation opportunities. To identify areas of high spend including repetitive low value orders and to bring these to the attention of the Supply Chain Manager and Strategic Procurement Teams, providing information on product usage and trends for potential contracting or catalogue ordering. To liaise proactively with the Trusts Receipts & Distribution team to identify and resolve delivery queries effectively and to agree delivery arrangements for individual orders which maximise efficiency and minimise delivery problems and queries. To liaise proactively with the Trusts Creditor Payments Team to identify and resolve invoice queries and to agree payment arrangements for individual orders which maximise efficiency and minimise invoice problems and queries.

To liaise proactively with suppliers to agree prices and delivery dates and to resolve queries. To obtain reports from procurement systems as required including the manipulation of reports into Excel or other appropriate format. Support the Supply Chain Manager in the training and development of other team members within the Procurement Operations team Responsible for researching alternative products when necessary.


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