Job summary
- Main area
- Procurement
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 205-7395567
- Employer
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Stoke University Hospital
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Support Buyer
Band 4
Job overview
The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust North Midlands and Black Country Procurement Group is responsible for the Strategic and Operational Procurement for UHNM (Royal Stoke University Hospital, County Hospital, Royal Wolverhampton Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) and 36 partner NHS organisations within the Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Lancashire Health Economies.
Main duties of the job
The North Midlands and Black Country Procurement Group is responsible for the management and control of expenditure in excess of £330 million across the local health economy. The Supplies and Procurement function consists of:
- Strategic Procurement
- Operational Procurement including warehousing and stock management services
- Capital Procurement
- Systems Services (e.g. Purchase to Pay Systems)
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. We serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research.
The Trust has around 1,450 inpatient beds across two sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.
We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
We are a specialist Major Trauma Centre for the North Midlands and North Wales. Happy staff make for happy patients, and with the help of both we have put together a wide range of development and support packages aimed at ensuring that everyone at the Trust has the opportunity to fulfil their potential and meet their aspirations as well as the tools to provide great care.
Our mission to provide the very best health care includes recruiting the best people. Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Possess, studying or willing to study to CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply) Level 4 (Foundation Diploma in Purchasing and Supply) or equivalent qualification.
Desirable criteria
- • ECDL or similar qualification or equivalent level of experience/knowledge to competently use Microsoft Office systems including Word, Excel and Outlook.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous working experience/knowledge of procurement, contracting or commercial activity commensurate with the ability to undertake the purchasing and contracting activities associated with the post. This will include an understanding of contract law, purchasing procedures, purchase to pay processes and the award and management of contracts.
- Ability to use computerised purchasing systems effectively.
- Sufficiently numerate in order to interpret, summarise and analyse procurement data including accurate comparison of product and pricing information.
- Ability to handle queries/complaints effectively
- Ability to assess customer requirements.
- Ability to understand, interpret and follow procedures.
- Ability to plan, co-ordinate and manage workload of self and others and to establish priorities.
- Good organisational skills.
- Ability to meet timescales
- Customer friendly approach
- Enthusiastic/Positive/Self-motivated
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to use and work on own initiative
- Can handle multiple projects simultaneously and can prioritise well.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the process of tendering goods and services
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to work/adaptable
- Ability to provide high level of customer service and to promote a positive image.
- Ability to explain/introduce and present purchasing policies, products and processes to other Departments.
- Good telephone manner
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Good standard of written and verbal English.
- Ability to interface with all levels of staff including Senior Managers.
- Ability to work as an effective team member
- Good Negotiator.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lauren Evans
- Job title
- Strategic Procurement Manager - Capital
- Email address
- [email protected]
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