Buyer (Grade B)

AGH Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We are proud of our NHS heritage, and proud to be supporting Airedale’s clinical services.

We provide a wide range of services from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement, to clients both within and beyond the NHS.

Job overview

The Procurement team at AGH have an exciting opportunity within their team, working as a buyer. This role will be supporting the senior team deliver specific strategic targets and will involve problem solving, covering annual leave and periods of absence and learning new skills, such as logistics, inventory management, catalogue management and project management.

The team pride themselves on providing excellent customer service and aspire to be the best they can, contributing to the best possible service for patients and users within the hospital and community. AGHS are searching for an individual who is enthusiastic, confident and has good analytical, negotiation and communication skills, and is computer literate on everyday software systems and has an interest in emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence

• Maintain safe infection prevention and control environment for yourself and others.
• Raise matters of non-compliance with your manager or other advisers to reach appropriate solutions.
• Ensure procedures specific to your specialty are in place, in collaboration with the Infection Control Team.
• Be familiar with and comply with Trust guidelines, policies and procedures relating to Infection prevention and control.
• Ensure that infection prevention and control guidelines, policies and procedures are distributed to relevant staff.
• Ensure that infection prevention and control forms part of staff appraisal.

Working for our organisation

We offer a wide range of benefits, which include:

• Flexible and hybrid working
• Competitive salary
• Great public transport links
• A range of wellbeing initiatives
• Excellent range of benefits, including car lease scheme and cycle to work scheme
• Pension scheme

The Procurement department is part of AGH Solutions Ltd, a wholly owned

subsidiary company of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and runs a shared service for both Airedale and Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

• A good level of general education

• Experience in a Procurement environment.
• Professional qualifications to level 3 in Procurement, Supply Chain Management or logistics.

Skills

• Good interpersonal skills, good oral and written communication.
• Manage multiple tasks
• Prioritise own work effectively

• Ability to plan and develop own workloads to meet the strategic dimensions of the Department

Experience

• Experience of staff supervision and training colleagues
• Good experience in delivering cost reduction savings.
• Good analytical skills and mathematical orientation.
• Availability to use/develop use of common software packages i.e. Microsoft Office

• Experience in using a purchase to pay system, such as Oracle
• Experience in emerging technologies such as AI and RPA.

NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.

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