Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters
The Role
Join NHS Lanarkshire as a Procurement Manager and make a significant impact on our healthcare system. In this crucial role, you'll manage procurement and commercial activities across medical/surgical consumables and equipment categories, overseeing regulated tenders, contract implementation/optimisation, and ongoing contract management. Your efforts will support our overarching procurement strategy and ensure maximum value for money and supply chain integrity within Scotlands third largest health board.
As a Procurement Manager, you'll provide expert advice to management and budget holders, represent NHS Lanarkshire on national Commodity Advisory Panels, and collaborate with NSS National Procurement on contractual matters. You'll also identify potential areas for service expansion and contribute to our improvement plans, including through NHS Scotland Sustainability and Value programmes. If you're passionate about procurement and want to contribute to health and well-being within Lanarkshire, we'd love to hear from you.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
1. Demonstrate strong technical skills to ensure that theoretical models of high quality procurement are turned into practice
2. Educated to degree level and in addition has post-graduate qualifications preferably from the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) to Diploma Level and Ideally be working towards or will have gained Professional Diploma (Level 6) MCIPS
3. Significant experience in Procurement Management
4. Good working knowledge of modern Procurement Systems
5. Strong technical skills to ensure that theoretical models of high quality procurement are turned into practice
6. High level of competence in the critical leadership behaviours identified as crucial to achieving success within NHS Scotland;
7. Working in partnership
Learning and development
Caring for staff
Improving performance through team working
Communicating effectively
Improving quality
Achieving results
8. Aptitude for achieving objectives within an area of intensity and competing demands
9. Ability to influence other professionals towards considering new ways of working
10. Ability of being proactive in presenting ideas for change by reasoned argument and persuasion
11. Excellent communication, inter-personal and negotiation skills
12. Car driver a full, valid UK/EU/EEA licence
Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.
It would be great if you also have
13. Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Level 6 (Professional Diploma) or equivalent skills and knowledge gained by experience or training
14. Knowledge and experience of how to apply the requirements of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations and Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act is highly desirable
15. Experience in procuring healthcare-related products and/or equipment is highly desirable
16. Experience using framework agreements and regulated tender processes
17. Experience procuring under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or UK equivalent
18. Knowledge of procurement methodologies within medical consumables/equipment category area
19. Knowledge of contract law principles
20. Proven ability to be able to engage effectively with stakeholders and senior members of staff internally and externally
Contract type
Permanent
Full time
37 hours
Location and Working Pattern
The office location for the role will be at NHSL Headquarters, Kirklands Hospital, Bothwell, G71 8BB.
The working pattern for this role is; Mon-Fri (office hours) - Remote, hybrid working is available based on; 2 office days per week.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
Looking to find out more?
If youre looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!