Procurement Specialist - Clinical

About The Role

Do you have procurement experience within the healthcare sector and are looking for your next challenge? Would you like to make a difference to the lives of patients across a broad span of healthcare services?

At Practice Plus group we are passionate about great healthcare and believe anyone should be able to access excellent care. We are looking for a Procurement Specialist to join our expanding team to support the Procurement Manager to scope, manage and implement central procurement programmes to support 11 hospitals, over 50 prisons and primary care sites

What you'll be doing

You will support the Procurement Manager and wider finance division, driving best practice procurement through utilisation of supply frameworks, and ongoing supplier and contract management. You will manage your silo of procurement ensuring contract compliance, best value, standardisation and consolidation across sites. You will be an integral part of the team, whom will be a point of contact for the wider business to ensure stock availability, communicate any changes and respond to queries where applicable.

What we’ll look for in you

• Experience in the healthcare sector


• Training towards or received CIPS qualification is advantageous, but not necessary


• Excellent communication skills


• Attention to detail


• Good business acumen


• Willingness to learn and take on additional tasks


• Assertiveness when faced with business resistance to change


• Ability to break down a given challenge into the core issue with a view to resolution


• Open to change


• Negotiation skills


• Cross functional working