Strategic Procurement Lead

4 weeks ago


Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxford University Hospitals Full time

Job Overview

To drive strategic procurement and category management across designated clinical expenditure categories, ensuring maximum value from the supply chain.

As the dedicated point of contact, coordinate activities with Procurement Category Business Partners and deliver benefits in line with Divisional, Departmental, and Trust targets.

Develop and maintain short, medium, and long-term work plans and benefits forecasts, ensuring legislative and contractual compliance.

Provide expert knowledge and skills to ensure best practice procurement and strategic sourcing, risk management, and value for money.

Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including suppliers and agencies, to develop and implement innovation.

Main Duties

Category Management

Proactively manage all spend in allocated categories of expenditure, ensuring category services are fit-for-purpose and suitable for stakeholders.

Develop, implement, monitor, and review procurement/commercial strategies for allocated categories, maintaining supplier relationship management.

Manage high-value strategic sourcing projects, identifying and managing risk throughout the procurement process.

Maintain links with relevant bodies to ensure new technologies and innovation are incorporated into procurement.

Project Management

Project manage bespoke category procurement exercises on behalf of stakeholders through conception to completion.

Analysis & Reporting

Report on procurement and commercial activity to the division and for the spend categories via appropriate and relevant ways.

Conduct financial analysis in support of individual procurement projects to assess impact on budgets for stakeholders.

Working for Our Organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research.

Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, focusing on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence.



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