NS 16.09 Senior Market Management and Procurement Manager in Norfolk

Priority will be given to internal NS ICB staff members. This role will be within the Contracts and Procurement team with responsibility for market management undertaken for the Integrated Care Board. The ICB works with many types of provider markets, and this role will develop the ICB capability to understand, engage, support and manage different types of market. This role will sit within the Procurement Team but will be required to work across the ICB and with a wide variety of stakeholders in the health and care system. This is a new role and will be responsible for leading on the development of this specialism in conjunction with the Deputy Director of Procurement and Market Management. This role will also have the opportunity to work within procurement and knowledge of these processes is highly desirable. This will be a hybrid role, with some requirements for office working in respect of supporting complex tenders and attending meetings.

Main duties of the job:

• Support the ICBs Market Management Policy through leading the development, implementation and continuous improvement of the ICBs approach to market knowledge, market engagement, market development and market management.
• Support to delivery of procurements lawfully and effectively.
• Own policy, assure market management policies are adhered to.
• Produce/present complex executive reports which will inform strategic commissioning approaches.

About us:

We manage an annual budget of 4.9 billion to commission safe, high quality and accessible health services for 1.7 million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk. We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government. Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joined up care.

Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an older than average population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities. Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joined up, patient centred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to high quality services. We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.

Person Specification:

Experience

• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
• Substantial senior public sector leadership delivering complex/high value projects.
• Good working knowledge of Public Procurement Regulations and procurement case law.

Qualifications

• Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
• Desirable: MCIPS (or equivalent professional membership). Postgraduate qualification (e.g., MBA, LLM).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.