Senior Commercial Procurement Specialist

**Working Full Time**: 37.5 hours per week
Senior Commercial Procurement Specialist.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Commercial Procurement Services Team, an accredited Framework Host via NHS England.
You will report to the Commercial Procurement Manager and be part of a team which is responsible for developing and establishing UK-wide procurement frameworks and dynamic markets that can be used across the NHS and the wider Public Sector.
You will be running Regulated over-threshold tender processes.
**In addition you will need to have the following skills**:
Commercial acumen;
Negotiation skills;
Ability to act autonomously;
Ability to identify, research and report on opportunities for new frameworks and/or dynamic markets;
Understanding of the current health economy.
MCIPS accreditation (or if not fully accredited to be actively working towards MCIPS status -CIPS level 5 qualification must have been achieved at minimum), and/or
award of a relevant degrees or degrees, and/or
relevant experience.
Please read the full job description for more details.
Previous Applicants Need Not Apply
The Senior Commercial Procurement Specialist will from part of the Commercial Procurement Team in the Countess of Chester. The team is responsible for seeking out innovative ideas and developing and establishing UK-wide procurement frameworks and dynamic markets that can be used across the NHS and the wider Public Sector, whilst generating an income for the Trust.
You will be responsible for contributing towards the delivery of the Trusts Procurement Cost Improvement Programme, contributing towards the operational development of the commercial procurement strategy and the undertaking of wider commercial and procurement activities. You will also be responsible for gathering and analysing market data and presenting your findings with recommendations whether to progress a project further and what tendering processes to use.
You will be responsible for contract management for a range of procurement frameworks and dynamic markets including developing and setting of Key Performance Indications (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) as well as advising customers on what would be appropriate in call-off agreements. Supplier Relationship Management is also vital for this role.
Further to this, the role also includes supporting the Director of Commercial Procurement.
See Job Description for further details.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
**The Countess of Chester Hospital**: providing 438 general and acute beds.
**Ellesmere Port Hospital**: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
**Tarporley War Memorial Hospital**: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
See Job Description for further details.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.