Senior Buyer - Clinical

Partners Procurement Services (PPS) provides high-quality, compliant and customer-focused procurement services across multiple NHS Trusts, supported by modern systems, clear governance and a strong culture of collaboration.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Buyer to join PPS as we expand our clinical team to support Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust as they join PPS as a new member in April 2026. GOSH is an internationally recognised leader in children's healthcare, caring for patients with rare and complex conditions from across the UK and overseas.

Main duties of the job

You will deliver end-to-end buying activity for clinical consumables and devices, including sourcing, quotation exercises, supplier liaison, purchase order management and issue resolution. You will support contract compliance, catalogue accuracy and effective use of the P2P system.

The role plays a key part in maintaining continuity of supply during onboarding and, over time, you will work across the wider PPS resource pool, supporting multiple Trusts and categories.

About us

PPS offers the opportunity to work at scale while retaining a clear line of sight to patient impact. Supporting GOSH means contributing directly to world-class paediatric care while developing your procurement career within a shared service environment.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Education

• Educated and attained a pass in 5 GCE (A-C , including mathematics and English at this standard.
• CIPS (part or fully qualified) or working towards. It is mandatory that successful applicants shall sign-up to PSS personal training and development programme
• Educated to A-level standard, NVQ Level 3, or equivalent vocational qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.

Experience

• Minimum 3 years' experience in working within a relevant Acute and or Community procurement environment, within the NHS.
• Experience and knowledge of acute hospital sector buying and local buying procedures and use of IT system needs.
• Knowledge and experience of UK rules within the NHS context.
• Experience and knowledge of NHS procedures, systems, legislation and guidance
• Basic knowledge of pricing of products and services in support of the NHS.

Skills

• Capable of undertaking analytical tasks and manipulation of spreadsheets (assessed prior to employment).
• Good and effective interpersonal and communication skills to enable effective team working
• Team player with the ability to contribute effectively at junior management level.
• Capable of demonstrating negotiation skills
• Capable of demonstrating problem solving skills (assessed prior to employment)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.