Pricing Analyst

Hybrid Worker – Expectation is two days per week on site at our Nottingham office. Fixed Term Contract for 6 months. Salary offered on a starting salary of £37,502.

About the role

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Pricing Analyst to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first. The Pricing Analyst is part of a team of Analysts responsible for calculating, communicating, and auditing prices across the whole inventory of nearly 500,000 products. This role requires close attention to detail to ensure the correct prices are charged to each customer group across our inventory.

Responsibilities

• Maintain our in-house price calculator and manage the flow of the one million price updates into both our legacy and new Oracle price systems.
• Check and audit prices to ensure they have been implemented correctly.
• Work closely with our Category Management Teams to help them complete the required processes and to aid them in their responsibility for the control of all product costs (buy prices).
• Identify cost price anomalies and the tenacity to resolve issues.
• Review our in-house processes to constantly improve the way we work and to improve efficiency.

Benefits

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• Annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• In-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%).
• Access to the Flexible Benefits Scheme, including Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

Qualifications

Degree level qualification in a numerate discipline desirable.

Skills

• Experienced in using tools such as Excel, VBA/SQL/Python for data manipulation and visualisation.
• Diligent in ensuring accuracy and precision in all aspects of work.
• Meticulous and thorough approach to tasks.
• Proficient in data collection methods and capable of communicating complex findings clearly and understandably to stakeholders.

About NHS Supply Chain

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales. We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.