Are you interested in starting your career journey in Procurement? Do you hold good experience working in a transactional administrative role?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Procurement Category Buyer to join our growing Business Services Category team to support with several upcoming and exciting projects. You’ll help with a delegated category portfolio to implement strategic sourcing, develop customer relationships, and work to strengthen relationships with existing key suppliers.

While previous experience within the business services and corporate industry or category is preferential, it is not crucial. Previous experience working with consultancy, internal and external audits, records management, travel management will offer you an opportunity, at a national level, in shaping the marketplace for our clients.

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 position is predominantly home based, but there is an expectation to attend our Salford office once/ twice per month and/ or where business needs are required.

What you'll be doing:

• Acting as first point of contact for collaborators of all levels supporting and assisting in an efficient and timely manner in order to establish and build on existing relationships
• Delivering a strategic procurement and commercial service for our Public Sector organisation client partners with an allocated portfolio of categories
• Supporting the Category Managers with collecting, and analysing data to help predict forecasts and trends, handling and processing customer feedback
• Supporting the wider team with general administrative and tasks
• Future proofing contract decisions by conducting robust research and fact-based market intelligence to support the adoption of innovation, evaluation and supporting the evaluation and award process
• Supporting the end-to-end tender process ensuring all parties are well advised

What you’ll bring:

• Understanding and/or experience of procurement processes
• Admin experience with the ability to prioritise workload and good time management
• Transactional procurement experience
• Excellent IT and Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word and Outlook)
• Data input/ extract experience

It would be great if you had:

• Public Sector and/ or NHS experience
• CIPS or willingness to undertake
• Knowledge of Procurement Contract Regulations 2015 and New Procurement Act 2023

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: Anywhere UK

Security Clearance Level: Enhanced DBS

Internal Recruiter: Amy

Salary: Up to £30,000

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

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?