Pharmacy Purchasing Officer | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitals trust in Nottingham is seeking a Pharmacy Purchasing Officer to join their Medicines Purchasing team. The successful candidate will be responsible for placing daily orders for medicinal supplies, ensuring accurate pricing, and maintaining product availability across campuses. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in purchasing or financial processing and thrive in a busy environment. Join a diverse team dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare and enjoy numerous personal development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Highly competent in purchasing or financial processing tasks.
• Must have a meticulous eye for detail.
• Able to manage large volumes of work accurately to tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Placing daily orders for medicines and other pharmaceutical items.
• Ensuring accuracy in medicine pricing and resolving queries.
• Liaising with clinical colleagues to maintain product supply.
• Reconciling systems and data related to medical gas supplies.

Skills

Purchasing competence

Financial processing

Attention to detail

Proactive in busy environments

Job description

Pharmacy Purchasing Officer

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Placing daily orders for medicines and other pharmaceutical items used across the Trust
• Ensuring medicine 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

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.

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

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!

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.

This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026