Buyer

Derbyshire Support & Facilities Services Limited; Palterton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Palterton is seeking a Buyer for its Procurement team. The successful candidate will deliver high-quality procurement services for Chesterfield Royal Hospital and other clients. Key responsibilities include sourcing suppliers, ensuring compliance, and supporting supplier performance improvement. Applicants must have strong team working and customer service skills, along with procurement experience. This role offers a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate strong team working skills.
• Experience working in a Procurement environment.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in sourcing suppliers via compliant routes to market.
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure excellent communication.
• Ensure procurement activity follows appropriate SFIs.
• Help obtain goods and services in a cost effective manner.
• Apply whole life costing techniques for best value.
• Support change and innovation for department evolution.
• Work closely with suppliers to develop effective partnerships.
• Identify savings opportunities to meet CIP targets.

Skills

Team working skills

Excellent customer service skills

Procurement experience

Job description

Overview

DSFS Ltd are looking for a Buyer to join the Procurement team to deliver high quality value for money procurement services on behalf of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and external clients. You will need to demonstrate strong team working skills; have experience of working in a Procurement environment and be able to demonstrate excellent customer service skills.

This post will play a key role in ensuring the procurement of the right goods at the right price delivered to the right place at the right time. This will be achieved by working together with clients and service users to understand their procurement needs, and by working together to standardise and rationalise products and services. This post will support senior staff to analyse and evaluate procurement data; tender and award contracts; improve supplier performance, implement specific electronic catalogues, and continuously improve the service for clients.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered.

• Assist in sourcing suppliers via compliant routes to market
• Liaise with Key internal and external stakeholders to ensure excellent communication in line with DSFS core values
• Ensure that all procurement activity is carried out in line with the appropriate SFIs
• Help to ensure that goods and services are obtained in the most cost effective manner
• Apply whole life costing techniques to ensure best value
• Support change and innovation to ensure that the department continues to evolve
• Work closely with suppliers to develop effective partnerships
• Ensure that the department meets its CIP targets by identifying savings opportunities

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just under 1000 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Megan Wallace
Job title: Procurement Partner
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 01246 516629

For further enquiries, please contact the Procurement Team at
[e-mail]
or 01246 516629