Procurement Business Partner

Are you a proactive and enthusiastic procurement professional ready to make a significant impact? We are looking for a Procurement Business Partner who thrives in a collaborative environment, is eager to develop, and has hands-on experience in full procurement cycles. Join us at the GPhC, where you will gain exposure to diverse projects, engage with various stakeholders, and contribute to every aspect of procurement across different categories, including contract management.

Closing date: 28 November 2024 (11.59pm)

Interview dates: First stage: TBCSecond stage: TBC

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience, plus benefits

Location: Canary Wharf, London (Hybrid working approach, circa 1 day per week in office)

Hours: 35 hours per week, from 9.00 to 5.00, Monday to Friday

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.
• Life assurance, season ticket loan, bike loan and many more.

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.