Buyer

Join our cross-site Contract Management team as a Senior Buyer. This role offers a chance to create and advance your career uniquely.
Why This Role Stands Out:
Innovative Opportunity: Define this role within our organization, adapting it to your strengths and aspirations.
Diverse Responsibilities: Engage in a wide range of contracts across various departments and sites, embracing daily fresh challenges
Tailored Training: Invest in your growth with job-specific training, enhancing skills while working
Impact on Healthcare: Ensure compliant contracts, crucial for our healthcare facilities and patient well-being
We seek a versatile, excellence-driven candidate with:
Adaptability: Flexible, proactive mindset for overcoming challenges.
Communication Skills: Collaborate effectively with diverse teams and articulate contractor expectations
Problem-Solving: Expertise in using feedback, data, and industry standards for innovative solutions
Independence: Develop standard operating procedures for consistency and efficiency.
Team Player: Integral support for the team, covering administration duties during leave.
This is more than a job; it's an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in healthcare while shaping your career. Join a team valuing innovation, adaptability, and personal growth - apply now to drive our success., + Development, Implementation, Monitoring and Management of Supplier relationships and performance against agreed Key preformation indicators
+ Developing a partnership approach
+ Responsible for Managing and set up of Procurement Documents and process within the E-tendering system.
+ Expertise within specialism underpinned by theory and practical experience.
+ Ongoing responsive Engagement with Internal Stakeholders
+ Market development
+ Ensure legal timelines are met.
+ Complete compliant Tender Documentation
+ Lead and support development and implementation of Supplier relationship Management
+ Coordinates and delivers a cost-effective compliant contracts to achieve financial targets
+ Advises users/budget holders on procurement policies and procedures
+ Supplier engagement with unfamiliar processes
+ Ongoing Contract Management and monitoring Support to buyer organisation, Join our cross-site Contract Management team as a Senior Buyer. This role offers a chance to create and advance your career uniquely.
Why This Role Stands Out:
Innovative Opportunity: Define this role within our organization, adapting it to your strengths and aspirations.
Diverse Responsibilities: Engage in a wide range of contracts across various departments and sites, embracing daily fresh challenges
Tailored Training: Invest in your growth with job-specific training, enhancing skills while working
Impact on Healthcare: Ensure compliant contracts, crucial for our healthcare facilities and patient well-being

Adaptability: Flexible, proactive mindset for overcoming challenges.
Communication Skills: Collaborate effectively with diverse teams and articulate contractor expectations
Problem-Solving: Expertise in using feedback, data, and industry standards for innovative solutions
Independence: Develop standard operating procedures for consistency and efficiency.
Team Player: Integral support for the team, covering administration duties during leave.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
+ Supporting your career development and progression
+ Excellent NHS Pension scheme
+ Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
+ Options for flexible working
+ Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
+ Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
+ If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
+ Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
+ Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
+ Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
+ Free car parking at all trust sites
+ Free flu vaccinations every year
+ Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications