Purchasing, Risk and Contracts Officer

We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Purchasing, Risk and Contract Officer to join our dynamic Business Services team. In this role, you will be instrumental in delivering effective business, risk, contract, and purchasing services. You will work closely with various teams, within the Digital directorate and wider ICB supporting a range of functions and ensure seamless operations.,

• Purchasing Activities: Manage and execute purchasing activities to support all functions within the Business Services team and the wider ICT Department.
• Risk and Change Management: Assist in supporting risk and change management activities, ensuring all changes are processed and documented accurately and on time.
• Administrative Support: Provide a range of administrative functions as directed, supporting business service functions, teams, and managers.
• Contract Management: Support the Contracts and Onboarding Manager in managing ICT customer contracts, ensuring the Service Catalogue and supplier matrix are up to date.
• Customer Relations: Work with service leads to ensure all customers have a contract/SLA in place and are billed for the services provided.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with other teams, including technical teams and the ICT Service Desk, to ensure effective service delivery.
  
  NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:o an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care serviceso an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area. ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):o to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;o tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;o enhance productivity and value for money and;o help the NHS support broader social and economic development. NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.