Value for Money & Efficiency Officer

Job Summary

Nua Healthcare Services is one of Ireland’s leading private healthcare providers, specialising in Residential and Supported Living Services for both children and adults with a range of complex support needs.

We are looking for a Value for Money & Efficiency Officer to join our team and play a key role in supporting Nua’s commitment to delivering high-quality services while ensuring resources are used effectively and efficiently.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is analytical, commercially minded and passionate about identifying opportunities to improve processes, reduce costs and deliver better value across the organisation.

Why join Nua Healthcare?

At Nua, we recognise that our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a supportive working environment with excellent opportunities for professional development and career progression.

Our Benefits Include:

• Company Pension
• Specified Illness Cover
• Comprehensive Induction Process
• Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
• Fantastic Development & Career Opportunities
• Life Assurance / Death-in-Service
• Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Education Assistance
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Refer a Friend / Retain a Friend Bonus
• Exclusive Discounts with Nationwide Retailers

Joining Nua Healthcare means becoming part of an organisation that is committed to making a positive difference to the lives of the people we support.

If you are looking for a role where you can use your skills and experience to drive efficiency, improve value for money and contribute to the continued growth and development of a leading healthcare organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Job Objectives

Job Purpose

The Value for Money & Efficiency Officer will be responsible for identifying and delivering opportunities to improve the organisation’s financial efficiency, reduce unnecessary expenditure and ensure that expenditure delivers appropriate value.

The role will combine financial analysis, supplier and contract review, value-for-money auditing, cost reduction and operational efficiency. The postholder will independently examine expenditure across the organisation, challenge costs where appropriate, identify waste and develop practical programmes to reduce costs without compromising service quality, compliance or frontline delivery.

A key responsibility will be to establish a culture of continuous value-for-money review, ensuring that expenditure is necessary, competitively priced, efficiently managed and aligned with organisational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Supplier Costs & Contract Management

• Review supplier expenditure, pricing structures, contracts and purchasing arrangements.
• Analyse supplier costs and identify opportunities for cost reduction, consolidation or renegotiation.
• Review contract terms, renewal arrangements and volume discounts.
• Identify instances of overcharging, duplicate expenditure, unused services, poor utilisation or expenditure outside agreed contractual terms.
• Benchmark supplier costs against alternative suppliers, market rates and historical expenditure where appropriate.
• Support contract renegotiations and competitive procurement exercises with robust financial analysis.
• Monitor supplier performance against contractual value, service levels and agreed pricing.

2. Waste Reduction & Operational Efficiency

• Identify financial and operational waste throughout the organisation.
• Analyse processes to determine where resources, money, time or materials are being unnecessarily consumed.
• Develop and implement waste-reduction programmes with relevant departments.
• Quantify the financial impact of identified waste and track savings achieved.
• Review recurring expenditure and challenge costs that do not demonstrate clear operational value.
• Work with operational managers to implement agreed efficiency measures.
• Establish appropriate measures to ensure that cost reductions are sustainable rather than one-off savings.

3. Expenditure Analysis & Savings Identification

• Conduct detailed analysis of organisational expenditure to identify savings opportunities.
• Assess whether expenditure is necessary, appropriately priced and justified by the operational requirement.
• Investigate unusual expenditure patterns, significant variances and unexplained increases in costs.
• Identify recurring expenditure that may no longer be required or may be capable of being delivered more efficiently.
• Develop cost-saving proposals supported by financial analysis and evidence.
• Prepare business cases demonstrating the potential financial impact of proposed savings.
• Distinguish between genuine recurring savings, one-off savings, cost avoidance and efficiency improvements.

4. Value for Money Audits

Plan and undertake independent value-for-money reviews across different areas of the organisation.

Audits may include:

• Supplier and procurement expenditure.
• Contract utilisation and compliance.
• Staffing and frontline overheads.
• Facilities and property costs.
• IT and technology expenditure.
• Fleet and transport costs.
• Professional and consultancy fees.
• Utilities and other recurring overheads.
• Travel and expenses.
• Equipment purchasing and utilisation.
• Departmental operating expenditure.

5. Financial & Management Reporting

• Produce regular Value for Money reports for senior management.
• Develop dashboards showing expenditure trends, savings opportunities and realised savings.
• Report on supplier expenditure and significant cost movements.
• Track the implementation of recommendations.
• Maintain a central register of value-for-money initiatives.
• Report risks, barriers and areas requiring management intervention.
• Provide clear financial analysis that can be understood by non-financial managers.

Skills Requirement

Essential Qualifications

A relevant third-level qualification in one or more of the following:

• Finance

• Accounting

• Business

• Economics

• Procurement

• Business Analytics

• Commercial Management

• Operations Management

A professional qualification or significant progress towards one of the following would be desirable:

Experience

The successful candidate should have substantial experience in several of the following areas:

• Supplier costs & contract management

• Waste reduction & operational efficiency

• Expenditure analysis & savings identification

• Internal audit or value-for-money reviews

• Business process improvement

• Working with operational managers to implement change

Essential Technical Skills

The candidate should demonstrate strong analytical capability, including:

• Advanced Excel skills and proficient in Word and PowerPoint.

• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and communication skills.

• Ambitious, energetic and motivated with ability to adapt to new challenges.

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

• Ability to work to and achieve time critical deadlines.

• Excellent organisation and planning skills.

The successful candidate will combine financial discipline with operational understanding, ensuring that the objective is not simply to reduce expenditure, but to eliminate waste, improve efficiency and maximise the value obtained from every euro spent.

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