Head of Procurement

2 weeks ago


Worcester, United Kingdom Concept Resourcing Full time

**Responsibilities**
- To act as overall Head of Department at all levels, supporting as and when required to do so.
- To develop and maintain the Work-Plan/Project and Contract Management eSourcing platform with dashboard to enable project.
- To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with all clinical and corporate stakeholders and to ensure that the procurement service provided to internal customers is of a consistently high standard.
- To contribute to defining and delivering the Trusts Procurement Strategy that covers all appropriate non-pay expenditure.
- Lead and co-ordinate cross functional contracting and sourcing teams to develop and implement 'high impact' contract strategies. Understand total cost of ownership, supplier and industry economics.
- Manage, mentor, train and develop team members. Ensure that all staff have agreed annual objectives and half yearly and annual personal development reviews.
- To provide support to all procurement areas as may be necessary and directed by the Head of Procurement.
- Responsible as a Procurement expert with corporate responsibility for ownership and leadership of supplier and category spend at a strategic level, establishing and updating a contracting and sourcing strategy in line with operational needs.
- Establish and develop long-term contracting strategies to achieve savings targets and quality improvements.
- To directly manage the Trust's key (service critical) suppliers/contracts and to develop and implement business continuity plans to secure supplies of critical items during major incidents and other cases of major disruption.
- Undertake audits, benchmarking exercises, detailed financial analysis of complex procurement projects and modelling.
- Lead/support the maintenance and development of an effective contract database to facilitate proactive supplier performance review, market analysis and supplier development.
- Analyse categories spend and implement a supply management approach appropriate to the value and risk of individual suppliers to the Trust.

**Experience & Knowledge**
- Expert knowledge of Purchasing & Supply process with significant experience in Procurement.
- Significant managerial or supervisory experience.
- Experience of managing high value and complex procurement projects.
- Experience of capital equipment procurement in large Trust / Organisation.
- A proven track records of procurement savings delivery in either the private or public sector.
- Ability to provide advice in relation to contractual terms and conditions.
- An ability to negotiate and persuade colleagues of the need to adopt best procurement practice.
- Experience of advanced negotiation.
- Experience of demand management techniques.
- Experience of introducing stock management systems.


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