Job summary
Partners Procurement Services (PPS) provides high-quality, compliant and customer-focused procurement services across multiple NHS Trusts, supported by modern systems, clear governance and a strong culture of collaboration.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Buyer to join PPS as we expand our clinical team to support Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust as they join PPS as a new member in April 2026. GOSH is an internationally recognised leader in children's healthcare, caring for patients with rare and complex conditions from across the UK and overseas.
Please see Job Description for full details.
Main duties of the job
You will deliver end-to-end buying activity for clinical consumables and devices, including sourcing, quotation exercises, supplier liaison, purchase order management and issue resolution. You will support contract compliance, catalogue accuracy and effective use of the P2P system.
The role plays a key part in maintaining continuity of supply during onboarding and, over time, you will work across the wider PPS resource pool, supporting multiple Trusts and categories.
Please see Job Description for full details.
About us
PPS offers the opportunity to work at scale while retaining a clear line of sight to patient impact. Supporting GOSH means contributing directly to world-class paediatric care while developing your procurement career within a shared service environment.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please detailed Job Description for full information. See sections entitled "Main Duties" and "Key Result Areas".
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please detailed Job Description for full information. See sections entitled "Main Duties" and "Key Result Areas".
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated and attained a pass in 5 GCE (A-C)), including mathematics and English at this standard.
- CIPS (part or fully qualified) or working towards. It is mandatory that successful applicants shall sign-up to PSS personal training and development programme
Desirable
- Educated to A-level standard, NVQ Level 3, or equivalent vocational qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 years' experience in working within a relevant Acute and or Community procurement environment, within the NHS.
- Experience and knowledge of acute hospital sector buying and local buying procedures and use of IT system needs.
- Knowledge and experience of UK rules within the NHS context.
- Experience and knowledge of NHS procedures, systems, legislation and guidance
- Basic knowledge of pricing of products and services in support of the NHS.
Skills
Essential
- Capable of undertaking analytical tasks and manipulation of spreadsheets (assessed prior to employment).
- Good and effective interpersonal and communication skills to enable effective team working
- Team player with the ability to contribute effectively at junior management level.
- Capable of demonstrating negotiation skills
- Capable of demonstrating problem solving skills (assessed prior to employment)
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated and attained a pass in 5 GCE (A-C)), including mathematics and English at this standard.
- CIPS (part or fully qualified) or working towards. It is mandatory that successful applicants shall sign-up to PSS personal training and development programme
Desirable
- Educated to A-level standard, NVQ Level 3, or equivalent vocational qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 years' experience in working within a relevant Acute and or Community procurement environment, within the NHS.
- Experience and knowledge of acute hospital sector buying and local buying procedures and use of IT system needs.
- Knowledge and experience of UK rules within the NHS context.
- Experience and knowledge of NHS procedures, systems, legislation and guidance
- Basic knowledge of pricing of products and services in support of the NHS.
Skills
Essential
- Capable of undertaking analytical tasks and manipulation of spreadsheets (assessed prior to employment).
- Good and effective interpersonal and communication skills to enable effective team working
- Team player with the ability to contribute effectively at junior management level.
- Capable of demonstrating negotiation skills
- Capable of demonstrating problem solving skills (assessed prior to employment)
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
