Purchasing Systems Analyst

Job summary

BWPC are seeking a tech-savvy Purchasing Systems Analyst with great customer service skills to join our Procurement Transformation and Systems team based at Southmead Hospital. This role will supporting the wider Procurement team in delivery of their procurement activity, and the wider Trusts with first-line systems support for procuring goods and services. This is a busy and varied role with a focus on attention to detail and solving problems.

A typical working day will include:

• Providing first-line support and training for Procurement colleagues and Trust staff with system functionality, ordering processes and procedures, and ad-hoc requests and queries
• Daily processing of systems administration requests - i.e. user setup, ordering location creation, system interface checks
• Analysing large procurement datasets
• Supporting continuous improvement projects
• Production of routine reporting requirements

The role is stimulating, demanding and rewarding and a great opportunity for the successful applicant to start their procurement journey in a systems support type role.

Main duties of the job

The Transformation and Systems team works to support the wider procurement team in BWPC and its clients, and is responsible for maintaining the department's current suite of systems, managing data and reporting requirements from these systems, and ensuring compliance of processes and policy in these areas.

The role is varied and will provide experience of managing IT systems, engaging with a variety of stakeholders, analysing data, and dealing with routine and ad-hoc requests and queries. There will also be opportunities to get involved in website management and more detailed data modelling and visualisation activities using the suite of systems in the team.

You will need to be resilient, resourceful and passionate about helping teams to use the procurement processes and systems effectively and be an advocate for the BWPC brand in the Trust.

We welcome informal discussion about this role from high-quality candidates and if you would like to speak to us about this great job please email:

Steph.Williamson@nbt.nhs.uk - Steph Williamson, Procurement Systems Supervisor

About us

Bristol and Weston NHS Purchasing Consortium (BWPC) is an award-winning team delivering procurement services to the two large acute NHS Trusts in Bristol: North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. BWPC supports the Trusts in the development and delivery of their procurement strategies, offering professional advice and delivering cost savings through sustainable procurement on an annual spend of circa £600m.

BWPC are proud to feature amongst their clients two of the largest NHS Acute Trusts in the UK, with a combined total of over 2,300 patient beds, 21,000 staff and offering over 100 different clinical services. BWPC's future vision is to grow the portfolio of their clients to support other health and social care providers in the region. BWPC are already supporting regional procurement activities, working to ensure our local health and welfare providers are able to deliver whole system cost reductions, whilst ensuring an optimised service delivery.

BWPCs office location is based at Southmead Hospital. This isn't a fully remote role.