# Contracts Buyer - Swindon, Salisbury or Bath > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/contracts-buyer-swindon-salisbury-or-bath/03905a7d-2c4b-4233-977e-c1408aa8b4f1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/contracts-buyer-swindon-salisbury-or-bath/03905a7d-2c4b-4233-977e-c1408aa8b4f1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Salisbury District Hospital - **Workplace type:** hybrid - **Profession:** Procurement officer - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata if part time - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-07T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-23T13:41:32.615Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Salisbury/Salisbury_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Procurement/Procurement-v8276856 - **Employer website:** https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview BSW Acute Hospital Alliance Procurement service is an NHS procurement service hosted by Salisbury NHSFT providing strategic, tactical, transactional, and Supply Chain services across the 3 acute trusts and community in the ICS: Royal United Hospital Bath NHSFT, Great Western Hospitals NHSFT and Salisbury NHSFT. An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a dynamic, focused, and forward thinking individual to support the BSW Acute Hospital Alliance being based either in Bath, Swindon, or Salisbury Acute Hospital locations. This exciting opportunity has arisen to work in a demanding yet rewarding procurement environment dealing with Clinical products products in a responsive, and professional service for our multiple Trust stakeholders. The team has recently undergone a restructuring and refocusing on ICS strategic and collaborative procurement and the post holder will be assigned to a specific category. This is a full-time post (37.5 hours per week) the location is flexible and can be either based at RUH Bath NHSFT, Salisbury NHSFT or Great Western Hospitals NHSFT in Swindon. Interviews will be held in person at one of the Acute Trusts Please Note: We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position. ### Main duties of the job This is an important procurement role which requires robust stakeholder engagement skills, knowledge and expertise. The post holder will have a working knowledge of Public Sector procurement and contracting and should be able to demonstrate a track record of running end-to-end procurement or tenders. Ideally the candidate will be CIPS level 4 qualified. The role also requires an individual with commercial acumen and the ability to successfully represent the Procurement function at meetings. These will take place both virtually and via frequent attendance at multiple Trust sites. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their ability to meet the Trusts core values and should be able to evidence commitment to continuous professional development. The post holder will need to contribute to the procurement functions standardisation, collaboration and continual improvement drives, to deliver an improved ICS in which value for money is obtained from all supplier expenditure. Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ## Person Specification ### Qualification **Essential** - CIPS level 4 - HND in Business - Public Procurement Experience - Category Management - Interpersonal Skills - Negotiation - commercial experience **Desirable** - 2:1 relevant degree - NHS Experience - Project Management ## Documents - [facts about salisbury (pdf, 214.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1618) - [contracts buyer jd & ps (pdf, 400.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10599550) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.