Band 8c Head of Procurement- Out of Hospital

2 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
An exciting venture to deliver procurement and supply chain services to five NHS organisations is now open to applicants.

The purpose of this role is to provide a procurement and supply chain function to assist in the delivery of the vision, business plans, day to day operations and financial and quality targets of the BSOL PC.

The combined turnover of the five organisations (University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham Women's & Children's NHS Foundation Trust, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust) is over 3.5 billion with non-pay spend of circa 1.5 million.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential for the role in order to build professional relationships, implement change and support with the delivery of operational requirements.

Our award-winning Procurement team are based at Regent Court, near Five Ways island in central Birmingham. Our newly refurbished offices have excellent transport links as well as hybrid working opportunities.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

**Job description**:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:

- Degree or relevant equivalent experience

**Desirable**:

- CIPS Level or equivalent experience

**Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Experience of working in a Procurement background
- Experience of Procurement and Contract Management including commercial negotiation of significant value and/or risk
- Working within a team.
- Commercial experience.
- Negotiation skills
- Working within a result driven environment
- Experience of Microsoft Office or equivalent.
- Developing contracts with suppliers
- Holding supplier contract review meetings

**Desirable**:

- Experience in using e-commerce platforms

**Additional Criteria**:
**Essential**:

- Time Management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to develop strategic projects and communicate plans to key stakeholders
- Able to provide direction, influence and persuade.
- Well-developed procurement and contract management skills in order to prepare and deliver a strategy as well as a detailed contracting programme involving some complex tendering and contract management processes.
- Effective communicator.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Customer orientated.
- Time Management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
- Results driven.
- Change management
- Prioritisation skills
- Keyboard skills.
- Written communication skills
- Presentation skills.
- Decision making and problem-solving skills.
- Use own initiative.
- Strategic purchasing.
- Contract law
- Supply chain management
- Project management.
- Enthusiastic
- Innovative
- Methodical.
- Highly numerate and literate.
- Problem Solving
- Self-Motivated.
- Analytical.
- Assertiveness with tact and diplomacy to challenge the status quo.
- Team player.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Dynamic
- Flexibility to work at different locations.
- Flexible approach to working times.
- Evidence of commitment to Continual Professional Development (CPD)

**Desirable**:

- Understanding of NHS processes
- Professional purchasing principles acquired through experience or professional qualifications.

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