The Role
As a Procurement Business Partner, you will be pivotal in managing procurement activities, ensuring compliance with UK Public Procurement Legislation, and supporting stakeholders throughout the procurement process. You will gain hands-on experience across all procurement categories and contribute to building supplier relationships, delivering value for money, and driving continuous service improvement.
This role provides a unique opportunity to work on varied projects, enhancing your procurement expertise while partnering with different teams to make strategic procurement decisions. Your proactive approach will ensure smooth procurement life cycles, and your team-player mindset will foster strong collaborations across the organisation.
This role is subject to a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check as part of our pre-employment due diligence.
The successful applicant will:
- Demonstrate end-to-end experience in procurement exercises, including tendering, selection, award processes and contract negotiations.
- Be a proactive learner who stays up to date with public procurement regulations and best practices.
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders to meet procurement objectives and build strong partnerships, whilst developing junior team members.
- Contribute to contract management by supporting the monitoring of supplier performance and ensuring adherence to service level agreements.
- Have an unwavering commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Benefits when joining our team
In return for their commitment and enthusiasm, employees can expect a rewarding and challenging work environment, good work-life balance and workload plus an excellent benefits package that includes:
- 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 5 days.
- A choice between two pension providers: NHS England pension scheme or Standard Life.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Career breaks and sabbaticals.
- Employee Assistance Programme, flu jabs, eye tests and glasses, season ticket loan, bike loan and many more.
Please see our full guide of our excellent benefits
About the GPhC
We are a respected regulatory body that regulates pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacies in Great Britain. We work to assure and improve standards of care for people using pharmacy services. Our organisation has a long-term vision and a desire for highly skilled and specialist staff. We are committed to providing workforce learning and development opportunities.
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have adopted a hybrid working approach which combines office and home working. Staff are predominantly home-based and office attendance depends on the nature of the role and the requirements of the team.
We are proud of our diverse and inclusive culture and are committed to holding ourselves to the same standards we expect of others.
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Applying for this role
If you feel you have the required experience and skills and would like to join us, please complete our application form, including the supporting statement section explaining how you meet each of the criteria for the role, and where you found out about this vacancy.
Please note that applications without a supporting statement will not be considered.
Please consult the knowledge and skills section of the job description document to help you prepare your application.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community
We are committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and being inclusive in all our work as a health professions regulator.
Whilst we are proud to be members of the Disability Confident Scheme, you don’t have to have a disability for us to discuss reasonable adjustments. Please let us know if you need any support during the application or interview process and we will happily discuss this with you.
As part of your application for this role, please complete our equal opportunities and diversity monitoring section. This is optional and you don't have to complete it; however, it provides us with useful information for monitoring and reporting purposes and is strictly confidential. The information you provide on this form will not form part of any selection process and will not be shared with the selection panel.