Medicines Procurement Officer inCheshire inCheshire PUBLISHED 31 OCT 2024
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This exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medicines Procurement Officer to join the Generics Medicines team in NHS England's Medicines Procurement and Supply Chain team which is part of the Medicines Value & Access Directorate - Chief Financial Officer Group. The Generics team is responsible for Delivering over £101m savings last year covering over 2,500 products for NHS hospitals in England, generic pharmaceuticals are a vital element of medicines procurement, the post holder will be a member of a dynamic team in delivering and implementing procurement strategy for generic medicines in NHS secondary care. The post holder will have a key role in the provision of an efficient, effective and high quality professional and well-coordinated procurement service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the organisation.
The office base for this role can be London, Runcorn or Leeds.
As a Procurement Officer within our medicines team the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team to support managers and staff across Medicines Procurement & Supply Chain in their procurement of medicines for the NHS.
In particular, the post holder will be:
- Responsible for the delivery of the medicines framework agreement tendering programme, on behalf of the NHS, in compliance with Public Contracts Regulations
- Project leading or supporting each tender as appropriate, working closely with NHS Pharmacy, wider healthcare specialists and Pharmaceutical Industry colleagues to resolve contracting issues
- Responsible for the production of comprehensive adjudication reports and supporting documentation such as additional analysis when required
- Responsible for the ongoing contract management activities such as uptake reviews, KPIs and managing poor performance by suppliers
- Responsible for creating and nurturing strong stakeholder relationships, both within the NHS and externally
- Responsible for ensuring that systems such as the Contract Management system, Project Management System and NHS Pharmacy Web Catalogue are kept up to date at all times
- Supporting the co-ordination and management of supply problems
- Flexible to support the wider MPSC teams (Branded and Biosimilar) as required
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents
This exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medicines Procurement Officer to join the Generics Medicines team in NHS England's Medicines Procurement and Supply Chain team which is part of the Medicines Value & Access Directorate - Chief Financial Officer Group. The Generics team is responsible for Delivering over £101m savings last year covering over 2,500 products for NHS hospitals in England, generic pharmaceuticals are a vital element of medicines procurement, the post holder will be a member of a dynamic team in delivering and implementing procurement strategy for generic medicines in NHS secondary care. The post holder will have a key role in the provision of an efficient, effective and high quality professional and well-coordinated procurement service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the organisation.
The office base for this role can be London, Runcorn or Leeds.
As a Procurement Officer within our medicines team the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team to support managers and staff across Medicines Procurement & Supply Chain in their procurement of medicines for the NHS.
In particular, the post holder will be:
- Responsible for the delivery of the medicines framework agreement tendering programme, on behalf of the NHS, in compliance with Public Contracts Regulations
- Project leading or supporting each tender as appropriate, working closely with NHS Pharmacy, wider healthcare specialists and Pharmaceutical Industry colleagues to resolve contracting issues
- Responsible for the production of comprehensive adjudication reports and supporting documentation such as additional analysis when required
- Responsible for the ongoing contract management activities such as uptake reviews, KPIs and managing poor performance by suppliers
- Responsible for creating and nurturing strong stakeholder relationships, both within the NHS and externally
- Responsible for ensuring that systems such as the Contract Management system, Project Management System and NHS Pharmacy Web Catalogue are kept up to date at all times
- Supporting the co-ordination and management of supply problems
- Flexible to support the wider MPSC teams (Branded and Biosimilar) as required
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You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents
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