About The Role
Are you looking for the next exciting opportunity in your procurement career?
Are you looking for an opportunity where you can really make a difference?
Role summary:
We are looking for a new Strategic Sourcing Manager to join the procurement function at NHS Professionals reporting into the Head of Procurement.
Skills/Responsibilities:
1. To lead and manage the strategic sourcing and contract management of a portfolio of direct and indirect categories with an annual spend in excess of £m, working closely with SRM, Purchasing and Commercial functions, and reporting into the Head of Procurement.
2. Develop and implement a comprehensive category of strategies aligned to NHS Professionals (NHSP) business requirements.
3. Responsible for the planning and timely project management and delivery of strategic sourcing strategies for designated areas of spend
4. Work collaboratively with the business to drive appropriate stakeholder engagement and ensure good information flow on sourcing activities and contract implementation
5. Contract drafting and negotiations
6. Authorisation and control of new products and supplier requests
7. Identify and lead cross-functional opportunities both internally and externally
8. Develop, agree, and communicate category strategy, objectives and implementation activities to key internal stakeholders and suppliers
9. Work closely with both SRM and Purchasing, ensuring seamless and collaborative engagement and hand-offs
10. Ensure that all team members are aware of and adhere to all customer related policies and processes including Health & Safety, Data Protection and other legislative requirements
11. Create a motivated, high-performance culture where measures are fair and consistent and failure to achieve is addressed promptly through honest conversations, support and coaching
12. Ensure mechanisms are in place to identify and satisfy training needs and skills gaps to enable all individuals to grow whilst strengthening the team as a whole
13. Manage team members who report to you inclusive of sickness, annual leave and appraisals
14. Daily visible leadership and management of the department
About The Candidate
To be successful in this post you will need to:
15. Have a collaborative and engaging approach
16. Have several years' experience in a similar role working with high value contracts
17. Ideally hold a CIPS or other relevant qualification (desirable)
18. Be able to manage priorities
19. Work under pressure sometimes with challenging and variable timescales and deadlines
20. Engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
21. Be an experienced negotiator with a modern and creative approach to maximising value for NHSP and its suppliers and clients
22. Experience in managing a team to reach their full potential
About Us
In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:
23. Generous annual leave allowance - days per year, plus bank holidays
24. A commitment to talent management & development
25. Star of the Month! - Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £ worth of shopping vouchers
26. Pension – We’ll contribute up to % towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
27. Life Assurance
28. Group Income Protection
29. Wellbeing Programme
30. Employee Assistance Programme
31. Employee Engagement & discounts platform
About Us:
NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.
We are particularly proud of being the first NHS organisation to gain the accreditation of Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute. This is a huge testament to our ongoing commitment to making NHSP a great place to work for all our corporate employees.
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