Deployment Specialist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Deployment Specialist - Various Locaions

Function: Strategy, Comms & Change

Location: Field Based

Type: Perm & FTC roles

Salary: £32,045 potential to rise to £37,700 over 3 years

Closing Date: Friday 5 April 2024

We have an exciting opportunity within NHS Supply Chain for a Deployment Specialist to join our new In-Hospital Services team.As Deployment Specialist, you will be supporting our NHS customers nationally through the deployment and best practice guidance provision of our supply chain/inventory management solutions into NHS hospitals, ensuring successful outcomes for both customer and business. Working independently, you will collaborate across a complex stakeholder landscape including NHS Supply Chain internal and external facing teams, hospital procurement, supply chain, clinical, IT and senior roles.

What does a Deployment Specialist do at NHS Supply Chain?

• Implement ecommerce/demand or inventory management solutions in a healthcare/hospital setting.
• Provide guidance and training to customers and third parties on inventory management solutions in a healthcare/hospital setting
• Support with the technical delivery of an inventory management solutions in a healthcare/hospital setting, for e.g. helping to define and deliver system integrations, hardware set up and configuration
• Work as part of a small national team to provide customers and colleagues with guidance on best practice use of our inventory management solutions.
• Working independently, support customer change initiatives by providing analysis or monitoring progress with guidance from a national team.
• Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities, in a hospital or community healthcare environment, to develop effective working relationships and to ensure that stakeholder needs, and concerns are identified and met.
• Collate and analyse data using pre-set tools, methods and reporting formats.
• Contribute to reviewing existing operations in a third party or customer environment and generating new ideas to assist in identifying continuous improvement across people, process, infrastructure and technology.
• Quickly identify operational problems, root causes and solutions in operational/supply chain customer environments
• Creates new and better ways for the customer or third party organisation to be successful
• Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Plans and prioritises work to meet commitments aligned with organisational goals
• Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
• Interprets and applies key financial indicators to make better business decisions.

How youll work

This role will be mobile, you will be working from home, and travel to the Trusts. Flexibility will be required to work around our customers in clinical/hospital settings - there will be weekend working to accommodate.

In return for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work you will be rewarded with an attractive salary and benefits package, consisting of:

• Performance led annual bonus scheme
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days
• Generous contributory pension scheme (up to 12% of your salary)
• Flexible benefits scheme you will be ableto choose from a variety of benefits such Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance and additional pension contributions that suit you
• 3 days paid Volunteering Leave
• Access to the Blue Light Card and NHS Discounts
• Flexible working options
• National Annual season ticket purchase scheme
• Eye Care vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• What skills, qualifications and qualities do I need to be successful?
• Working independently or as part of a small team to deliver project goals to time and budget
• Experience in ecommerce, procurement, ideally in a healthcare setting
• Experience of supply chain and/or procurement environments, ideally within a healthcare setting
• Experience of implementing technical solutions into operational environments
• Data collection and analysis
• Experience of stakeholder and change management in customer or third party environments.
• Knowledge of project management
• Experience of continuous improvement methodology

Employer details

Employer name

Supply Chain Coordination Limited (SCCL)

Address

Wellington House

133-135 Waterloo Road

London

Greater London

SE1 8UG

Employer's website

https://www.supplychain.nhs.uk/about-us/vacancies/ (Opens in a new tab)