Job summary
- Main area
- Public Sector Procurement
- Grade
- DSFS Grade E
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 166-DSFS-7861445
- Employer
- Derbyshire Support Facilities Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Salary
- £37,720 - £41,832 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/04/2026
Employer heading
Procurement Partner
DSFS Grade E
Job overview
DSFS has an exciting opportunity for the role of Procurement Partner.
The role supports the Head of Procurement and is part of the Senior Leadership Team. Serving as a senior member, the Procurement Partner will co-ordinate & manage the buying team performance; providing leadership and supervision to enable the delivery of a "best in class" procurement service, along with developing a strong culture of teamwork and continuous improvement.
The role requires significant experience of working within the public sector, preferably within the NHS, with demonstrable and practical working knowledge of public sector procurement legislation and regulations.
The role also requires excellent organisational skills and confidence to work across diverse specialties and clinical and non-clinical categories.
As well as engaging with and developing robust working relationships with key stakeholders, a key element of the role will be to network and collaborate with peers across Derbyshire and East Midlands, to benchmark costs and leverage opportunities, ensuring optimum value for money and continual improvement.
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Main duties of the job
Provide strategic and operational support to plan, coordinate and deliver across a number of medium-high value workplans. Maintain contract databases to produce high quality management data
Undertake competitive tender exercises, supporting Customers with the writing of Specifications and Business Cases, Drafting ITT documentation, undertaking evaluations, tender awards and facilitating effective contract management.
Develop and implement innovative ways to procure goods & services to deliver efficiencies and and cost savings, contributing to the departmental CIP target.
Proactively undertake market engagement and market analysis to keep abreast of market shifts, trends, product development and innovation.
Working for our organisation
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are, along with the criteria that is required.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPs Level 4) or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Desirable criteria
- Contract Management
- NHS Terms & Conditions
- Prince2 Foundation
- ILM Level 4 or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of negotiating with suppliers and customers in a large organisation and track record of achieving significant cost reductions.
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking competitive tenders/quotations. Significant experience in a customer service environment
- Significant experience of working within the public sector and working knowledge of EU regulations
- Extensive experience and use of Procure to Pay Systems
- Analysis of spend reports to identify cost saving opportunities.
Desirable criteria
- ECDL or Equivalent experience on the use of Microsoft packages.
- Vendor management.
- Working knowledge of NHS.
- Management/supervisory experience
- Coaching and mentoring experience
- Delivering procurement workplans and projects.
- Public Sector procurement experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of contract law or equivalent experience
- Demonstrable and practical working knowledge of EU/Public procurement legislation
- Track record of building successful and robust professional relationships to deliver cost improvements and other procurement related efficiencies.
- The ability to analyse Data and make recommendations in relation to spend reduction, contract management and demonstrate compliance with OJEU and other Procurement legislation
- Negotiation skills.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of OJEU tendering process
- Knowledge of contract databases
- Knowledge of NHS Procurement processes
- Ability to lead and manage a small team
- Project Management
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Good Interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to plan and organise own workload and that of others.
- Positive and supportive approach to colleagues, team members and clients
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Be adaptive to change.
- Self-motivated and ability to motivate others
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of innovations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Bonner
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Procurement
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246 51 6229
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