Procurement Business Partner

2 weeks ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Your World Healthcare Full time

**Procurement Business Partner**

**Sector**:Healthcare

**Working days and hours: 37.5 hours per week**

**Temporary**:Expected to last 6 months with a possible extension

**Location: Milton Keynes**

**Pay Rates**:£19.50 PAYE Inclusive of Holiday or £22.40 Umbrella per hour

**SOURCING**
- Work with line management and stakeholders to develop sourcing strategies for products and services within allocated division and ensure delivery of established savings targets within the portfolio.
- Collaborate with other government agencies and NHS Trusts in identifying and establishing joint procurement initiatives that will deliver enhanced value for money.
- Work with other NHS organisations and agencies, as directed to implement any changes within the supply chain in order to achieve cost effective supply solutions.
- Seek continuous improvement within the supply chain, identifying potential risks and barriers to improvement. Ensuring that contractual arrangements reflect a requirement for suppliers to demonstrate service and cost improvement.
- Promote and manage the rationalisation and optimisation of the vendor base, products, and services, giving appropriate respect to risks and ensuring that specifications deliver standardisation.

**TENDERING**
- The Trust is required to act in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. It is a requirement of this role to ensure the Trust is compliant with all legislative and regulated requirements relating to contracting and procurement within the sector.
- To provide advice and guidance on procurement issues to all staff, ensuring that appropriate procurement processes are adopted in all cases and that published tender documentation is compliant with law, is fair and transparent, and promotes fair competition.
- To lead the tender process, ensuring full documentation of evaluation processes, and decisions and ensuring compliance with regulation and audit requirements.

**CONTRACTS**
- To ensure that the Trusts contracts register is managed and maintained in a timely manner, ensuring that data records are current and accurate.
- Ensure that all contracts entered into by the Trust are fair and balanced, ensuring that risks are appropriately mitigated and/or apportioned appropriately and that any limitation in suppliers liability does not expose the Trust to unreasonable levels ofrisk.
- Plan and undertake effective negotiations with suppliers within the allocated portfolio of product and services. Ensure best value is achieved by balancing cost and quality within contract terms.
- Undertake regular contractor performance reviews to ensure compliance with contract terms. Identify where suppliers are failing to meet their obligations and develop, implement, and monitor supplier improvement plans, to ensure best value delivery.

**FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY**
- Delivery of procurement savings in line with agreed targets defined in annual work plans and in-line with identified timelines.
- Responsibility for ensuring that Trust staff comply with the Trust’s processes, policies procedures and regulations.

**COMMUNICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT**
- Develop and maintain excellent relationships with other departments through regular contact and pro-active support, ensuring timely and effective response to all enquiries and requests for support.
- Develop and maintain regular contact with key suppliers and stakeholders to ensure current market knowledge is exemplary, and able to inform sourcing decisions.
- Lead supplier/stakeholder service reviews addressing stakeholder satisfaction, commercial development, and improvement alongside continuous supplier improvement issues.
- To fully engaged in supporting divisional supply initiatives and introducing benefits opportunities identified through procurement analysis and represent the procurement department at divisional non-pay review groups.

**ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT**
- Undertake analysis of portfolio spends to identify and forecast benefits available and to prioritise actions.
- Provide reports on progress and benefits delivered through action plans, comparing actual results to forecasted outcomes and adjusting plans accordingly.

**STAFF MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT**
- Provide support, and where appropriate leadership in the delivery of effective and efficient, customer focused procurement services. Assist in achieving the delivery of Cost Improvement Plans (CIP) within designated division, that maximise commercial benefitsfor the Trust.
- To be pro-active in supporting and sharing experiences, knowledge, and information within the procurement team, to enable to wider development of knowledge and skills within the team.



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