Job Introduction
An exciting interim opportunity has opened within our growing Procurement team!
We’re seeking a proactive Procurement Operations Co-Ordinator to join us on an 8-month fixed-term contract (until July 2025) to support our business expansion and take on a fast-paced, impactful role. Starting in April 2025, HCRG Care Group will take on three large service contracts, increasing our client offering, staff base, supplier base, and spending footprint.
In this role, you’ll collaborate with and support stakeholders across the entire business, manage cases through ServiceNow and a shared inbox, and contribute to strategic projects alongside the wider Procurement team.
This is a hybrid position, allowing you to work from home 90% of the time, with only occasional travel to our head office in Runcorn. Alternatively, you’re welcome to base yourself in one of our various office locations.
Main Responsibility
- New supplier set ups - Completing due diligence checks, approvals, bank details and encouraging use of established vendors
- General maintenance of supplier records
- Verifying and updating bank details for supplier records and manual payments
- NHS Supply Chain – Setting up new accounts, maintaining current ones
- Proactis/Supplier Queries for end users – Receipting, cancelling/raising POs, finding a supplier, obtaining quotes
- Receipting on behalf of Finance to reduce penalty fees or accounts on hold
- Redirecting and expediting emails to the correct department.
- Supplier price updates, HCRG name changes, couriers, expediting
- Supporting with Account Forms for services
- Delivery queries & supporting with mis-deliveries to Head Office
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
- Customer focused, friendly attitude.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work alone or as part of a team.
- Willingness to branch out and go the extra mile to support the whole HCRG Care Group team.
- Ability to use initiative to solve problems.
- Good system skills and memory.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job specifications.
Package Description
As a Procurement Operations Co-Ordinator, you’ll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group working in the Procurement department.
You will feel valued as a Procurement Operations Co-Ordinator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £25,200 with group pension
- Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support – at locations across the country
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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