Procurement Analyst

Description:

Job Title: Procurement Analyst - Finance 

Function: Commercial

Location: Hybrid / From any NHS Supply Chain location

Contract type: Permanent  

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

Closing Date: 31st May 2024

We have a great opportunity for a Procurement Analyst within our Commercial team.

Working within the Business Management team, the role includes a diverse range of tasks focussing on financial analytics and insights, savings and sales performance management and providing wider business intelligence and data governance. These are all crucial to successful delivery of our business objectives. Reporting into the Category Performance Manager, you will work with a wide range of cross-directorate stakeholders to drive the organisation’s data strategy, develop innovative solutions to complex problems, and provide industry leading financial intelligence and insights.

As part of an expanded team, the role will require:

creativity and problem solving.

technical capability including proficiency using a range of analytics tools.

the ability to deliver under pressure. 

Every day you will … 

Assemble and interpret financial and performance metrics to make better business decisions, drawing rich insights from financial and other quantitative data.

Maintain data integrity to ensure reliability and accuracy.

Integrate data sets across various systems to facilitate strategic decision making.

Use a range of tools, techniques and approaches to highlight trends and patterns, supporting delivery of our Category strategy.

Provide technical support when reviewing and reporting on financial data, creating relevant and effective reports and data insights

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.  

We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards. 

27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.

We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.

A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)

Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.

2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community. 

Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

Experience working with Excel at an advanced level.

Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, finds many ways to add value to the team; probes to draw out richer input from others; is a valued resource who goes out of the way to help others.

Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on analysing data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations.

Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on expressing ideas, requesting actions and formulating plans or policies.

Communicates with other people without requiring supervision and provides technical guidance when required on speaking in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.

Has experience or a working knowledge of financial processes and cycles and can apply them when completing analysis tasks.

Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently on costing, budgeting and finance tasks while providing guidance and training to others.

Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing financial and economic models for planning and monitoring purposes.

Works with full competence to analyse potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders.

Uses an understanding of numerical concepts to perform mathematical operations such as report analysis. Ideally proficient in MS Excel with data analytics experience and familiarity working with Power BI.

Provides technical guidance when required on analysing data from multiple sources to identify trends for use in reports to help guide decision making, draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations.

 Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at  

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply