Assistant Cost Improvement Officer

6 days ago

Keighley, United Kingdom AGH Solutions Ltd Full time

The Procurement department is part of the AGH Solutions LTD team at Airedale General Hospital. If you are looking for a new challenge, then you may want to consider joining our busy Purchasing Team. You will need to have good interpersonal skills and proven customer service/office admin experience. You will be responsible for the actioning and processing of daily requisitions, negotiating with suppliers, chasing of outstanding orders and invoice queries. You will need good working knowledge and experience of software systems in particular Microsoft Office, with good oral and written communication skills. You must be confident, self-motivated and willing to work in a fast paced busy work environment.

Providing a high quality professional procurement service to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust and other partners ensuring compliance with legislation, national and local policies.

Promoting across both Trust Board, supports the Contracts Manager with all strategic procurement issues with a view to maximising the savings potential across the patch with more efficient and effective purchasing arrangements with a contribution to both Trust’s non-pay expenditure.

Supports the Contracts Manager with the development of the Contracts and CIP Section, specifically by:

- Increasing contract coverage to all key areas of non-pay spend.
- Working with Managers/Budget Holders in the identification of savings opportunities monitoring and reporting progress as required.
- Promoting the strategic direction of the Contracts and CIP Section by attendance and participation in service-wide key working groups.

Supports the Contracts Manager to manage the CIP Section by focussing effort towards reducing clinical risk by developing future product standardisation and adopting formal category management approach with purchasing expertise over specialist commodity knowledge.

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.

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