Pharmacy Purchasing Officer

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Nottingham is seeking a Pharmacy Purchasing Officer to optimize the purchasing of medicines. The successful candidate will manage daily orders and resolve pricing issues while ensuring effective communication with clinical teams. Candidates must have NVQ Level 3 qualifications and purchasing experience, along with strong Excel skills. This role promises dynamic work in a supportive team environment, contributing to vital patient services.

Benefits

Personal development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Strong background in purchasing or financial processing.
• Experience in a high-volume, fast-paced business environment.
• Proficient in handling financial transactions.

Responsibilities

• Place daily orders for medicines and pharmaceutical items.
• Ensure accurate pricing and resolve supplier queries.
• Liaise with clinical colleagues for product supply.

Skills

Purchasing experience

Financial processing skills

Excel proficiency

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Ability to work under pressure

Education

NVQ Level 3 in business administration or purchasing

4 GCSEs including English and Maths

Tools

Financial systems

IT software

Job description

Pharmacy Purchasing Officer

The closing date is 05 January 2026

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is currently has an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Purchasing Officer to work within our Medicines Purchasing team.

Do you have a solid background in purchasing or financial processing? Are you eager to develop your experience in a busy team which underpins vital patient services? Working within a small team at QMC campus you will be responsible for ordering medicines for both QMC and City campus.

Reporting to the Pharmacy Purchasing Manager, your work in the Pharmacy Purchasing Team will include:

• Placing daily orders for medicines and other pharmaceutical items used across the Trust
• Ensuring medicines pricing is accurate, and resolving pricing and supplier queries
• Liaising with clinical colleagues to ensure uninterrupted product supply
• Maintaining and reconciling systems and data relating to areas such as medical gas supplies across the Trust

Your Qualifications: You need to be highly competent in purchasing or financial processing tasks, with a meticulous eye for detail, and able to turn round large volumes of work accurately to tight deadlines. Experience of working proactively in a busy environment is ideal.

The Pharmacy purchasing function sits within the wider Pharmacy Medicines Finance Team. We are a friendly, hard-working team who are an important part of the Hospital Pharmacy department. So if you are keen to develop your career in a varied and fast-moving environment, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

Person Specification

Qualifications & Experience

• NVQ Level 3 in business administration, purchasing or equivalent, or by demonstration of experience, knowledge and skills at this level relevant to these qualifications
• A minimum of 4 GCSE's or equivalent at grades A-C including English and Maths

Experience

• Experience of financial systems and processes, including processing financial transactions, such as invoices and orders
• Good level of knowledge and experience of IT software, in particular strong Excel spreadsheet skills
• Experience of purchasing and the processes involved
• Experience in a high volume, fast-moving business environment
• Proven verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work both proactively using own initiative and as an effective and flexible member of a team
• Able to communicate effectively with both internal and external, financial and non-financial staff

Analytical and Judgement skill

• Numerate and able to analyse and present data and take appropriate actions
• Able to handle sensitive information confidentially
• Good organisational skills; able to prioritise and deliver accurate results to deadlines under pressure

Physical skills

• Able to achieve both speed and high levels of accuracy when undertaking financial data tasks, whilst experiencing interruptions
• Able to use a keyboard for a large part of the day

Other

• Conscientious, reliable, self-motivated, mature outlook, results-orientated
• Adaptable and flexible
• Commitment to continuous improvement of customer-focused services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts