Commercial Procurement
1 day ago
Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week
A new and exciting opportunity to join the Commercial Procurement Team in the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
This role will focus on providing an efficient and professional client focused procurement service, effectively handling all incoming enquiries and requests in a polite and timely manner and processing the information received accurately and efficiently. This role will also involve administration duties to aid in the support and management of Commercial Procurements framework portfolio and update the relevant communication channels as well as supporting the team in dealing with any invoice queries
You will also be advising stakeholders regarding our portfolio of frameworks and providing them with the documentation to allow them to progress with contracts, this will involve providing help, assistance, and training when necessary.
For full details of the duties please see the Job Description and Person Specification.
Duties for this role include:
Being the focal point to respond and action all queried and enquiries received in the department from stakeholders and suppliers.
Liaise with suppliers on progression of all call-off contracts and ensure they are reported in a timely manner.
Provide data to support the Commercial Procurement Team and also monitor and analyse the types of queries received, ensuring all information is recorded appropriately.
As a member of the Commercial Procurement team, assist management to meet yearly departmental objectives by completion of personal objectives as agreed in yearly individual performance and development review.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
- The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
- Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
- Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
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