Assistant Buyer

Do you want to be part of a team that is passionate about using their expertise to save the NHS time and money?

An opportunity has arisen for a Project Leader to join the Portfolio Delivery team. As part of this team, you will get the opportunity to make a real difference to NHS SBS. Currently we have Project Managers and Leaders on every major Programme/project.

If you wish to take up this exciting opportunity; you should have project leadership / management experience and be able to work independently without day-to-day supervision, take accountability for the projects / work-packages under your purview, and beflexible regarding working hours and location to ensure deadlines and quality standards are met.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

This role is fully remote with monthly requirements to attend the Leeds office for collaborative meetings.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Ensuring all collaborators are engaged and remain committed to assigned projects and have complete and continuing awareness of the project plan, key achievements, progress to date and plans to completion, providing regular and accurate reports on progress,issues and plans to relevant senior client and NHS SBS management and advancing any issues as per agreed escalation procedures.
- Coordinating, supporting, and ensuring quality standards are maintained within the project for all collaborators.
- Handling risks, issues, and change, raising awareness of risks to ensure cost-effective and timely resolution of issues.
- Owning and delivering small to medium projects within a larger project or programmes, ensuring that they conform to customer and NHS SBS project management governance standards, and time, cost, and quality specifications.
- Producing outline project approaches, plans and business cases, collating background information and completing analysis of risk and return to provide the management team with sufficient information for decision making on project or Programme viability.
- Ensuring that all projects are appropriately constructed and delivered to the governance and tolerances agreed in the business case and project initiation document.
- Supporting the formal closure of projects and the completion of project, post implementation support and lessons learned reviews, in order to ensure that lessons learned are gathered and passed to the relevant forum for action and improve own and teams’development, skills improvement and overall contribution.

**What you’ll bring**:

- Recent & relevant project management experience
- APM Fundamentals Qualification or equivalent

**It would be great if you had**:

- Knowledge of the NHS
- PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner certificate
- Experience of working with Agile techniques (SCRUM, DSDM)
- Any APM Qualifications
- Membership of the Association for Project Management
- IT services background

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you

**Employment Type**:Full-time, Permanent** **Location**:UK (Anywhere) -must be able to commute to Leeds monthly

**Security Clearance Level**:BPSS** **Salary**:Up to £35,000 (dependent on experience)

**Benefits**:25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

**Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?**

Our unique partnership between the Department of Health and Sopra Steria means that we are market leaders in corporate service delivery with around 40% of the NHS using one or more of our products. With unrivalled knowledge and experience, we provide high-quality,value-for-money finance, procurement, and employment services to the NHS, helping them overcome any challenges they face in the back office.

Our vision is to help the NHS save money and enhance quality, providing a real-life impact where the changes we make can improve health, innovate to save lives, and deliver better outcomes.

Do you want to be part of our journey?