Strategic Procurement Manager

4 weeks ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom North Bristol NHS Trust Full time

This role is for a Senior Purchasing Specialist. If you'd like an exciting challenge with an emerging and evolving Procurement Team; can demonstrate a tenacious, strategic mind-set along with the ability to juggle a number of projects involving a variety of stakeholders whilst pushing the boundaries of effective public-sector wide collaborative procurement then there has never been a better time to join us at North Bristol NHS Trust.

The procurement team at North Bristol NHS Trust delivers procurement service to two large acute NHS Trusts in Bristol, developing and supporting delivery of their procurement strategies, offering professional advice and delivering cost savings through sustainable procurement.

You will set procurement strategies and lead on procurements for a range of products through working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders to ensure commercial and contractual measures are in place.

Key Performance Areas:
Procurement strategy development:
  1. Specific procurement policy and procedure alignment and category sourcing process development.
Procurement strategy execution:
  1. Specific end user requirements identification, coordination and supply service delivery.
Supply base management:
  1. Supply base optimisation, market knowledge assimilation, analysis and application.
Stakeholder relationship management:
  1. Procurement stakeholder relationship development.
People management and leadership:
  1. Local procurement team leadership, capacity building and performance management.

The procurement team at North Bristol NHS Trust delivers procurement service to two large acute NHS Trusts in Bristol, developing and supporting delivery of their procurement strategies, offering professional advice and delivering cost savings through sustainable procurement.

Our main office location is in Southmead Hospital. Senior Purchasing Specialists are expected to travel to client and supplier locations where necessary.

NBT Cares. It's a very simple statement; one which epitomises how everybody across our organisation goes the extra mile to ensure our patients get the best possible care. NBT Cares is also an acronym, standing for caring, ambitious, respectful and supportive – our organisational values.

And our NBT Cares values are underpinned by our positive behaviours framework – a framework that provides clear guidance on how colleagues can work with one another in a constructive and supportive way.

Additional Responsibilities:
  1. Provides support to the senior managers in developing the contract portfolio.
  2. Establishes and maintains a needs-based segmented supply base.
  3. Ensures that current and developed sourcing practices and processes conform to overall trust and national procurement policies.
  4. Establishes local measures to ensure end user conformance to policies and procedures.
  5. Where necessary trains end users in the application of these procedures.
  6. Handles all queries and issues relating to specific procurement processes and procedures.
  7. Observes and enforces purchasing ethics.
  8. Ensures adherence to and understanding of purchasing policies and procedures.
  9. Suggests and works with senior colleagues on process improvements.
  10. Implements systems to monitor supplier performance.
Conclusion:

This role requires a dynamic individual who can effectively manage multiple procurement projects while ensuring compliance and fostering strong relationships with stakeholders.



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