Procurement Analyst

20 March 2024
Job Title: Procurement Analyst
Function: Commercial – Rehabilitation and Community
Location: Hybrid / From any NHS Supply Chain location
Type: Permanent
Salary:
£32,045 with potential to rise to £37,700 over 3 years
Closing Date: 3 rd
April 2024
The role is within the Business Management Team with a diverse portfolio of tasks including but not exclusively , providing data analysis, insights, reports, financial analysis, and process analysis to support the Rehabilitation and Community team in the delivery of our business objectives. Reporting into the Category Performance Manager, you will work with a wide range of cross-directorate stakeholders to drive the organisation’s data strategy, develop innovative solutions to complex problems, and provide industry leading business intelligence and insights.
As part of a newly expanded team, the role will require:
creativity and problem solving.
technical capability including proficiency using a range of analytics tools.
the ability to deliver under pressure.
What does a Procurement Analyst do at NHS Supply Chain?
Assemble and interpret financial and performance metrics to make better business decisions, drawing rich insights from financial and quantitative data.
Maintain data integrity to ensure
data is reliable and accurate.
Analyse data sets across various systems to facilitate strategic decision making.
Use a range of tools, techniques and approaches to highlight trends and patterns, supporting delivery of our Category strategy.
Provides technical support when required on reviewing and creating relevant and effective reports and data insights.
Provides technical support when reviewing and reporting on financial data.
Responsibilities
Work with Finance stakeholders to ensure Category reporting is in line with financial strategy and reporting cycles.
Guide Business Management Team and Category on queries in relation to finance.
Set the data standard for all product and process data across the Category team.
Ensure supplier data is consistent and standardised.
Commercial and sourcing data, developing the spend cube, spend analytics, data cleansing, data quality forecasting and product hierarchy.
Aggregate insights across Commercial such market indices, purchasing trends, and clinical insights, including wider NHS Supply Chain data.
Interact with the central Data team within Finance to ensure a ‘single version of truth’ from data sets.
Coordinate Commercial reporting requirements and maintain source data integrity through regular reviews and cleanses.
Own cost value engineering (CVE) tools and value based procurement (VBP) data.
What skills, qualifications and qualities do I need to be successful?
Knowledge of strategic planning systems and protocols to support others.
Experience in responding to requests and managing data.
Managing workload and ability to prioritise
Communication and collaboration skills
How you’ll work
Hybrid working; a blend of home and office working 2/3 days in the office and 2/3 days at home.
In return for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work you will be rewarded with an attractive salary and benefits package, consisting of:
Performance led annual bonus scheme
27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days
Generous contributory pension scheme (up to 6% employee / 12% employer contributions of your base salary)
Access to Flexible Benefits Scheme – you will be able
to choose from a variety of benefits such Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance and additional pension contributions that suit you
2 days paid Volunteering Leave
Long Service Awards
Access to the Blue Light Card and NHS Discounts
Flexible working options
National Annual season ticket purchase scheme
Eye Care vouchers
Access to a free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
NHS Supply Chain, who are we?
We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales. We make sure the products we supply are always safe, quality assured and delivered efficiently.
We’re always listening to the people who use our products, so that we’re aware of the changing needs across the NHS. In all, we serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres. We also manage relationships with more than a thousand suppliers, delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations.
And by doing all of this on behalf of the NHS, this gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of proving excellent patient care. Our, Purpose, Vision and Strategy are clear. We provide direction, leadership, and commercial focus to improve health outcomes. Vision: To make it easier for the NHS to put patients first Purpose: Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health Values:
Be Inclusive
Be Driven
Be Enterprising
Be The Difference
Other Information
SCCL is a not an NHS organisation, you will join on SCCL terms and conditions.
NHS Supply Chain is an equal opportunities employer
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