Group Head of Procurement

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and Northampton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as our Group Head of Procurement. This is a new role combining the Head of Procurement responsibilities at both organisations.

You will be an integral part of both Trust’s Finance and Procurement teams, reporting to and assuring each Trust’s Deputy Director of Finance. You will become the face of procurement across the Group and regularly provide updates to both Boards.

**Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)**

The post holder will have a group role managing the procurement departments of both Leicestershire Partnership Trust (LPT) and Northampton Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHFT). They will provide a full specialist service to the Trusts and associated customers, including provision of technical guidance, operational guidance and advice on strategic sourcing, tendering and contracting to all relevant internal and external stakeholders, ensuring all legal requirements and obligations are met.

The post has budget holder and full staff management responsibility for the two procurement teams and will be responsible for managing and delegating the procurement work plan.

They will also lead any transformation work across both of the procurement teams, considering differing procedures, HR policies and financial requirements.

The role will have considerable input in in how both organisations manage and spend a total group non-pay budget of over £230m. They will be responsible for all procured spend within this budget.

The post will consider new goods and services contracts on behalf of both organisations and regularly update both Trusts boards on progress. The post will be responsible for seeking assurance and ensuring approval from relevant board members and committees are obtained prior to completing contacts.

They will provide a high quality, effective and client-focused procurement service to all relevant stakeholders to ensure all customers obtain Value for Money (VfM) for all commercial transactions.

They will provide professional external procurement representation within all required national forums, building collaborative relationships where appropriate.

The post holder will be responsible for initiating, developing and implementing a Group wide procurement strategy and ensuring that the relevant processes are in place to support it.

The post holder will provide management support services and management information to the Deputy Directors of Finance at both LPT and NHFT. They will also provide support and advice to any other organisational leads for which procurement services are provided.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.