Bank B4 Buyer | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £16.18 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 October 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW6 4UL |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6615841/824-BuyerINW-35 |
Summary
NWL Procurement Services (“NWL PS”) is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and
provides procurement and supply chain management services across all members (“NWL Members”).
The Buyer will deliver sourcing that NWL PS governance and strategy determines are not to be subject a full
tender, delivering excellent customer service, best value and compliance with NWL PS governance. The Buyer
shall work in accordance with direction from the Lead Buyer to ensure that existing contracts are leveraged
where possible, and that future requirements are defined to minimise the level of sourcing activity not subject
to a full tender.
The Buyer shall ensure that the areas for which they are responsible achieve or exceed the Service Level
Agreement KPIs and internal NWL PS performance metrics.
OPERATIONAL
• Work in accordance with the direction of the Senior Buyer to ensure that sourcing is a value-adding
activity.
• Ensure that opportunities to leverage existing contracts are proactively identified and implemented in
accordance with NWL PS governance.
• Execute sourcing activity in accordance with NWL PS governance and wider legislation.
COMMUNICATION
• Establish professional relationships with identified stakeholders.
• Use communication, negotiation, and influencing skills to engage a range of staff to ensure the
agreement is reached to minimise the level of procurement activity not subject to a full tender.
• Build and maintain the reputation of NWL PS as a highly professional service with effective business
partnering arrangements ensuring maximum satisfaction among both internal and external
stakeholders.
• Support a culture of customer service excellence and value for money delivery in sourcing
NWL Procurement Services (“NWL PS”) is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and
provides procurement and supply chain management services across all members (“NWL Members”).
The Buyer will work under the direction of the Senior Buyer to:
• Ensure that opportunities to leverage existing contracts are proactively identified and implemented in
accordance with NWL PS governance.
• Execute sourcing activity in accordance with NWL PS governance and wider legislation.
• Follow measures implemented to identify and avoid disaggregation of requirements to avoid full tender.
• Work in accordance with the direction of the Senior Buyer to support delivery of the Service Level
Agreement KPIs and internal NWL PS performance improvement metric targets.
Buyers help ensure that goods and services are bought as efficiently as possible and in compliance with procurement rules. Good customer service, ability to work to deadlines, good work ethic and ability to understand and apply buying rules are essential.
This advert closes on Friday 20 Sep 2024