Nicholas Hicks
Procurement Business Partner at British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)
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United Kingdom
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Hospitals and Health Care
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100 - 200 Employee
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Procurement Business Partner
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Jan 2020 - Present
Managing a portfolio of essential medical equipment and drugs used throughout the business, ensuring operational demand is consistently met in a just in time fashion. Building strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure consistency of supply and BPAS specialist needs are met.Working in conjunction with other key business functions (IT, Estates, Clinical) to create purchasing tenders for key business projects, following these tenders through to completion.Representing the Procurement function at BPAS to outside organisations such as the NHS and CQC. Show less
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Buyer
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Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Monitor requisitions for non-standard items and investigate potential for standardisation where appropriate, in liaison with the team and business needs.Evaluate bids in a fair and transparent methodology and ensure any conflicts of interest are declared and managed.Proactively support the review of high turnover stock items for competitive procurement action to programme agreed with Head of Procurement and communicate changes in supply to relevant managers.Ensure financial and payment queries are addressed effectively and authorise invoices in accordance with delegated authority levels. Show less
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DCS Group (UK) Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Commerical Manager
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Feb 2016 - Apr 2019
Ensuring strong, sustainable and collaborative growth of key supplier’s by working directly with the DCS Sales teams, customer accounts and suppliers themselves.Optimising account profit and loss with regular spending analysis and reviews.Creating and presenting account specific plans to enable collaborative growth between customers, DCS Group and suppliers. Following and analysing consumer market trends to ensure continuous business development.
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Inventory Controller
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May 2015 - Feb 2016
Forecasting inbound, outbound and NPD stock requirements.Managing the purchase of stock following just in time methodology.Ensured a customer service level of 98.5%.
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Quality Compliance Assessor
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Jun 2013 - May 2015
Maintained ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and BRC Storage and Distribution standards.Named officer and 1st point of contact on MHRA WDL licence.Investigated and resolved operational based CAPA.Implemented supplier and customer specific QA needs.
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Quality Process Coordinator
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Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
Investigating and resolving CAPA.Writing and amending office based SOP.Generating and conducting internal audits following the created schedule.
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Education
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Warwickshire College Group
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Kineton High School