Job summary
- Main area
- Finance
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-CORP-7076542
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CLCH HQ
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Sourcing Manager -Community/Mental Health/Professional Services
Band 8a
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
NWL Procurement Services (“NWL PS”) is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all members (“NWL Members”).
The Senior Sourcing Manager executes sourcing activities for NWL Procurement Services (“NWL PS”) to provide excellent customer service, best value and compliance with NWL PS governance.
The Senior Sourcing Manager shall work in accordance with direction from the Head of Sourcing to ensure that sourcing is a value-adding
activity through the development and execution of excellent Sourcing Plans for each project.
The Senior Sourcing Manager shall ensure that the areas for which they are responsible achieve or exceed the Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWL PS performance metrics.
The position being advertised sits within the Community, Mental Health & Professional Services category of NWL PS, reporting to the Head of Sourcing for Community, Mental Health & Professional Services.
Main duties of the job
Work in accordance with the direction of the Head of Sourcing to ensure that sourcing is a value-adding activity.
Responsible for acting as professional lead for sourcing activities in NWL PS, providing mentoring and professional leadership to the Sourcing where delegated and leading the development of sector leading professional delivery.
Develop and deliver individual sourcing plans and sourcing strategies where delegated by the Head of Sourcing to best address the challenges set out by Category Management, delivering excellent customer service, best value for money and compliance with NWL PS governance.
Support achievement of NWL PS Delivery Board approval of all project gateways, including the Procurement Outcome Report.
Responsible for the effective handover of sourcing projects to the Manage & Enable function.
Proactively work to achieve Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWL PS performance improvement metric targets
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Single occupancy accommodation in Central London – (we can help you find accommodation in London, support you with your deposit)
- Support with gaining your driving license *T&C’s apply
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to job description, personal specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Professional operational service delivery and business management knowledge to degree equivalent plus further management experience or training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma or Corporate member in Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or other appropriate professional institute or relevant experience (by examination).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in a Category Management role
- Experience of business development and tender processes
- Modern procurement techniques and approaches, including strategic cost management principles and strategic category management process knowledge.
- Category management strategy initiation, planning and development process leadership Developing ideas for category strategy improvement opportunities within the organisation
- Determining business wide category based opportunities to reduce the TCO of products, equipment and services by clarifying the organisation’s business plans that will impact or be impacted by suppliers.
- Stakeholder category management business benefit marketing and relationship management.
- Evidence of providing and receiving complex information,
- Experience in being persuasive and motivational, with the ability to negotiate and train others
- Experience in handling complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options. X
- Experience in handling complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
- Evidence of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities; and formulating, adjusting plans or strategies.
- Experience in using software or systems to develop performance, statistical or management reports
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of EU procurement processes, using Government procurement frameworks
- Experience of being responsible for policy implementation and/or supporting discrete policy or service development
- Experience of line management of a single function or department
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Negotiation: A skilled negotiator with a broad range of skill sets
- Analysis: Skilled in being able to conduct analysis on complex data sets to provide concise insights
- Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, demonstrating ability to engage with stakeholders at multi levels
- Strategy Delivery: Experience of delivering and implementing category and sourcing strategies, delivering strategies for various sub-categories
- Financial skills with the ability to monitor or contribute to the drawing up of department or service budgets or financial initiatives
- Ability to work on own initiative, operating within broad policy/procedures, with responsibility for specific area of service delivery
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and awareness of NHS or wider healthcare sector operating models and policy developments would be advantageous, although not essential.
- Leading and Managing Others: Strong project leadership and management capabilities and experience, with capacity to manage multiple small and medium sized projects
- Change Management: Understands change management and process improvement with experience in supporting business process / organisational change
Other
Essential criteria
- Understanding of supplier management and can demonstrate development of a supplier over time
- Demonstrate an understanding of the latest market and procurement trends within the sub-category area of expertise
- Standard keyboard skills / Advanced keyboard skills used for manipulating large quantities of data and preparing complex analysis and reports.
- Concentration required for checking documents, writing reports and analysing statistics, including dealing with interruptions
- Ability to impart unwelcome news to stakeholders
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undertaking complex surveys relating to service delivery, and collating results for reports
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chris Grove
- Job title
- Head of Sourcing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07796705630
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