Pricing Analyst

Job Title: Pricing Analyst

Function: Financial Control

Location: Nottingham - Hybrid

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £35,627 with potential to rise to £39,585 over 3 years

Closing Date: Monday 7th April 2025

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.

Every day you will …

• Help 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, a constant goal since the formation of the team.

What can we offer you?

We Want To Reward You For Your Passion, Enthusiasm, And Hard Work So We Offer Much More Than a Competitive Salary

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 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 our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

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.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree level qualification in a numerate discipline desirable.
• 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.

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at Careers@supplychain.nhs.uk.

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.