Job Description

The Procurement team at AGH have an exciting opportunity within their team, working as a buyer. This role will be supporting the senior team deliver specific strategic targets and will involve problem solving, covering annual leave and periods of absence and learning new skills, such as logistics, inventory management, catalogue management and project management.
The team pride themselves on providing excellent customer service and aspire to be the best they can, contributing to the best possible service for patients and users within the hospital and community. AGHS are searching for an individual who is enthusiastic, confident and has good analytical, negotiation and communication skills, and is computer literate on everyday software systems and has an interest in emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.
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
Main duties of the job
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 Boards, supports the Senior Buyer 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 Senior Buyer 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.
Supports the Senior Buyer 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.
Deliver and manage a range of healthcare related procurement activity increasing procurement influence, securing recurring financial savings by examining the non-traditional areas of non-pay spend which have been traditionally assessed as being uninfluenceable spend.
About us
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
Details
Date posted
16 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
26,351 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
423-7269197
Job locations
Airedale General Hospital
Steeton
BD20 6TD
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job responsibilities
For more details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• A good level of general education

• Experience in a Procurement environment.
• Professional qualifications to level 3 in Procurement, Supply Chain Management or logistics.

• Good interpersonal skills, good oral and written communication.
• Manage multiple tasks
• Prioritise own work effectively

• Ability to plan and develop own workloads to meet the strategic dimensions of the Department

• Experience of staff supervision and training colleagues
• Good experience in delivering cost reduction savings.
• Good analytical skills and mathematical orientation.
• Availability to use/develop use of common software packages i.e. Microsoft Office

• Experience in using a purchase to pay system, such as Oracle
• Experience in emerging technologies such as AI and RPA.

• A good level of general education

• Experience in a Procurement environment.
• Professional qualifications to level 3 in Procurement, Supply Chain Management or logistics.

• Good interpersonal skills, good oral and written communication.
• Manage multiple tasks
• Prioritise own work effectively

• Ability to plan and develop own workloads to meet the strategic dimensions of the Department

• Experience of staff supervision and training colleagues
• Good experience in delivering cost reduction savings.
• Good analytical skills and mathematical orientation.
• Availability to use/develop use of common software packages i.e. Microsoft Office

• Experience in using a purchase to pay system, such as Oracle
• Experience in emerging technologies such as AI and RPA.

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