The procurement and sustainability team at AGH have a new and exciting opportunity within their team maintaining and renewing catalogue contracts.
The Procurement team pride themselves on providing excellent customer service to their customers and we aspire to be the best we can be, assisting clinical areas in providing the best clinical care to patients and users within the hospital and community.
We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic, confident and has good analytical skills, negotiation and communication skills and be computer literate on basic software systems such as Microsoft Office.
This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list.
If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you. If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment which may result in the termination of your employment to comply with the relevant immigration legislation, Providing a high quality professional Procurement service to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust and other partners ensuring compliance with legislation, national and local policies.
Promoting across both Trust Board, supports the Purchasing Manager with all strategic procurement issues with a view to maximising the savings potential across the patch with more efficient and effective purchasing arrangements with a contribution to both Trust's non-pay expenditure.
Supports the Purchasing Manager with the development of the purchasing team, specifically by:
+ Increasing purchasing coverage to all key areas of non-pay spend
+ Working with Managers/Budget Holders in the identification of savings opportunities monitoring and reporting progress as required.
+ Promoting the strategic direction of the purchasing team by attendance and participation in service-wide key working groups.
+ Support the implementation of the new Contracts Register and Tendering Portal 'Atamis'

Supports the Purchasing Manager by focussing effort towards reducing clinical risk by developing future product standardisation and adopting formal category management approach with purchasing expertise over specialist commodity knowledge.

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., AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.
We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.
We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.
Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.
Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification
We offer a wide range of benefits, which include
+ Flexible and hybrid working options
+ Competitive salary
+ On site parking and great public transport links
+ Discounted food and drinks within applicable on site catering facilities
+ Excellent range of benefits, including car lease scheme and cycle to work scheme
+ Pension scheme
+ A range of wellbeing initiatives
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
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