NHSJobs.com

Key responsibilities will include:

• Writing, evaluating, negotiating and executing various contracts covering a range of transactions

• Creating and maintaining relationships with providers and stakeholders

• Maintaining correspondence and documentation related to contracts

• Communicating and presenting information to stakeholders regarding contracts

• Monitoring contracts and moving forward with close-out, extension or renewal of contracts

• Draft contract documentation including contract variations as required

• Supporting the problem-solving of contract-related issues

• Providing project support to procurement exercises

• Lead on specific projects that may span cross directorates/system

Planning & Organising

• Manage the team’s contracting function, including developing and managing the team’s business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management.
• Liaise with appropriate functions within the Directorate and key stakeholders of the ICB.
• Contribute and support the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the team.
• Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies, and potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
• Contribute to short, medium, and long-term business plans.

Service Improvement

• Develop and implement a content management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, directorate and the wider NHS organisation.

·         Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.

• Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas.

·         Pro-actively identify business improvement needs and opportunities, by complex audits or surveys, and prioritise improvement activities across the directorate.

Analysis & Judgment

• Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
• Work with members of the team to investigate the causes of any variance from plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions
• Management of a risk and issues tracking mechanism and the resolution and escalation processes.
• Using autonomous judgement and initiative, where there may be conflicting views, to respond to communications on complex issues and draft non-standard responses that may include the analysis of technical information.

Communication

·         Maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.

• Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio.

·         Maintain strong links with directorates using tact, negotiation and influencing skills to facilitate the development of effective networks / working groups / projects and the delivery of their key objectives.

·         Using influencing, persuasion and negotiating skills, supporting the Senior Manager’s to update and manage directorate wide forums such as senior leadership team meetings and working groups on specific topics.

• Produce material for and present complex presentations which are engaging, influential and effective in delivering key messages, the content of which may include highly complex technical, contentious or very sensitive information.
•  
  Contribute to the development of an integrated approach to service management

• Financial Management ·         Oversight and management of all aspects of the team budgets. Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitor their implementation from a value for money perspective. Provide oversight and monitoring of all aspects of team budgets. Ensure activity expenditure is monitored accordingly. Manage team resources to ensure service continuity. People Management Take a lead in the coordination of training, development and recruitment activity across the team.

  Manage staff, undertaking appraisals, and managing any employee relations issues