Job vacancy: Procurement Manager, NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit, Bristol

Job summary

Main area: Procurement
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 891-CSU-7831CS

Employer: NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
Employer type: NHS
Site: Bristol
Town: Bristol
Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/07/2024 23:59

Procurement Manager

Band 7

We want SCW to be a great place to work, where we all feel safe and can be our authentic selves. This means valuing and respecting everyone from all backgrounds and embracing equality, diversity, inclusivity & wellbeing across everything we do. We are committed to listening, learning and improving on our approach to ensure these principles remain at our heart, helping us all to thrive.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your primary responsibility will be to manage smaller scale or less complex projects that support our customer recommissioning processes. Projects may be discrete and focus on a particular phase of a customer’s recommissioning plan, for example, the pre-procurement, procurement or mobilisation phase. The procurement phase will include provider selection on behalf of our customers for healthcare and clinical-related services.

Supporting our team’s procurement specialists with procurement and provider selection when required, you’ll possess a professional procurement and/or project management qualification(s), or be working towards - or willing to work towards - attaining this.

Person specification

Values & Behaviours

Essential criteria

Patient First – Customer Excellence
Aspirational
Collaborative
Insightful
Respectful

Education

Essential criteria

Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in procurement
Formal CIPS membership or level 4 NVQ in procurement or studying towards/willing to study towards

Desirable criteria

Foundation course in PRINCE2 project management
Evidence of continued professional development

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

Experience in communications and stakeholder management
Knowledge of project management principles, tools and techniques

Desirable criteria

A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Experience of working within the public sector and a working knowledge of procurement regulations i.e., Provider Selection Regime 2023, Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Public Procurement regulations, Equality Act 2010, and Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012
Knowledge and experience of using an e-Procurement system
Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring of budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes

Skills & Capabilities

Essential criteria

Demonstrable experience of coordinating procurement projects/project teams in complex and challenging environments
Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers
Ability to analyse complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
Capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
Experience of managing risks and reporting
Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Executive level
Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
Demonstrable strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
Demonstrable capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Evidence of success in efficient and effective project management ensuring delivery within financial targets
Excellent customer service skills; an ability to maintain confidentiality and trust: used to working in a busy environment; adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues

Desirable criteria

Market management skills - ability to develop approaches to analyse the market and to encourage a range of organisations to bid for services

SCW offers agile and hybrid ways of working. Hybrid working is a type of flexible working where employees blend working from different locations. It offers the employee the ability to choose to work wherever and however they are most productive, whether it be in an office, at home, or a customer site. Office location can be flexible within the SCW estate and will be agreed upon offer of contract.

SCW staff that are in posts considered to be agile will not be expected to attend office space for general working but will be required on occasions to attend face to face meetings and collaborative working sessions that may require travel to their home base or other locations across the estate or customer sites.

Please feel free to contact the Recruiting Manager of this vacancy to discuss further the working arrangement.

Some of our sites have accessible parking provision which is free or paid for work purpose this not contractual entitlement.

We make every effort to contact all candidates to let them know the outcome of their application. However, if you haven't heard back from us within 2 weeks after the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful.

This is an exciting time to join NHS South, Central and West.

SCW is an NHS support and transformation organisation that helps health and social care organisations deliver the best possible care to people. As partners of choice to more than 200 organisations that support millions of people, our mission is to help deliver the NHS Long Term Plan, improving the health and wellbeing of communities.

We’re supporting clients whose vision and quest for innovation requires us to be flexible, adaptable and open to adventure; giving us the freedom to work in new ways, looking at things from a different angle and challenging the norm.

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to attracting and retaining the best people in order to provide the best possible services to our customers. Our people enjoy challenging, rewarding roles, supporting our customers to improve their local health and care services.

We want our people to fulfil their potential so we offer a wide range of training, opportunities to gain qualifications, as well as access to coaching, mentoring schemes and employee wellbeing and support for a healthy work-life balance.

SCW were selected as an NHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion Partner for three consecutive years 2015-2018 and are now proud to be Alumni of this programme.

If you are successful in your application, we will value your experience, your contribution and we will give you the knowledge to succeed as part of your specialist team and as part of our organisation.

Our values

Patients First: our sole focus and inspiration is to help commissioners improve the quality of patient care, treatment and experience.

Aspirational: we deliver excellence, and celebrate innovation. This drives us towards becoming the best.

Collaborative: we build effective partnerships, whilst focusing on delivery. We work towards achieving shared goals.

Insightful: As experts in our fields, we understand the bigger picture and its complexities, we challenge convention, and we uncover opportunities.

Respectful: We treat everyone with respect and hope it will be returned. Recognising and valuing their knowledge, we involve our customers, teams and partners in decisions.

Please note SCW asks successful candidates to upload their Right to Work and Identity documents for digital verification. If you are unable to provide the required documents for the digital verification or do not have access to a smartphone or tablet, this will result in the verification being done face-to-face.