Procurement Business Partner

To ensure the provision of an efficient and professional Procurement service to management teams and staff across the Regions/Directorates. Support the delivery of Regional/Directorate projects and the development of partnership relationships through discussion with Regional/Directorate managers and staff. Supporting the implementation of the Procurement Strategy across the Trust, together with the development of Procurement policies, processes and procedures.

This role will support Trust-wide procurement activity delivering a range of business improvements including delivering savings, expanding contract coverage, supplier rationalisation, enabling better planning of workload, improved coordination and communication with key internal stakeholders and suppliers to produce measurable results across a range of indicators.

Reporting to the Head of Procurement, the postholders are required to support them in delivering the Trust’s Procurement Strategy that will contribute to the Trust’s objectives and be able to represent Procurement to internal stakeholders and suppliers as required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• As a manager in the Procurement Team: Responsible for providing Procurement support to regional and directorate teams on an ongoing basis, including providing advice and guidance on sustainable procurement, procurement policy and processes as required, and delivering local coaching on processes to boost compliance.
• Implement strategic procurement across the Trust including developing category management plans, undertaking strategic sourcing, working collaboratively on tender processes and subsequent contract management of key suppliers to ensure that Trust achieves best value, compliance with relevant legislation and minimising risk.
• Develop strong collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders to enable local information gathering on upcoming projects to facilitate early engagement and better workload planning, together with the identification of savings opportunities and other opportunities for efficiency and business improvement.
• Develop strong collaborative working relationships with key suppliers to ensure business critical contracts are delivered as expected, with ongoing improvements in value and sustainability over the period of the contract.
• Support the Head of Procurement with various Trust-wide projects and activity, including re-development and implementation of the Sustainable Procurement Policy and procurement procedures, supplier rationalisation, achieving savings targets and ultimately reducing the Trust’s Scope 3 carbon emissions.
• Undertake a portfolio of tenders over £50k and ongoing contract management of strategic suppliers as agreed with the Head of Procurement and aligned with the Trust’s ethical and sustainability policies.
• Support the implementation of sustainable procurement initiatives across the Trust to reduce the Trust’s Scope 3 carbon emissions.
• Identify, lead and deliver process improvement initiatives working with colleagues in other teams as required introducing better controls, improved reporting and process automation where possible. Able to lead activity and work pro-actively with a range of stakeholders using their initiative, problem-solving and procurement skills.
• Create and develop a continuous improvement culture looking for opportunities to reduce the supply base and consolidate spend to achieve savings, build closer relationships with key suppliers and secure improved services for stakeholders, as well as opportunities for increased automation in the purchase to pay process, use of catalogues etc. Together with developing and implementing streamlined and user-friendly processes, procedures, and reports to support activities within their internal customer teams, provide coaching for staff to embed these processes and embed reviews to ensure that these continue to be fit for purpose.