Procurement Manager

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Job overview

Do you want to make a difference and join an award-winning procurement team? Do you want to work in a fast moving, dynamic, results driven department focused on building strong working relationships with its stakeholders? Do you want to share in the pride associated with working for the NHS? We are looking to recruit a Procurement Manager to join our Clinical Sourcing Team to provide a customer centric service to drive the sourcing of value for money products and services to support the delivery of high quality clinical care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

The clinical sourcing role will be to work within the clinical procurement team sourcing the clinical goods and services.

The procurement manager in this role will be required to maintain a personal knowledge base, which reflects current research and development, and disseminate information, where appropriate. The post holder will develop and maintain relationships with clinical colleagues to ensure that patient safety is ensured and risks are minimised through best practice and by the procurement of products that are evidenced based. Through the development of these relationships the procurement manager will liaise with decision makers and end-users to help identify new schemes in pursuit of cost reduction objectives.

The non clinical role will cover Informatics and Corporate Services Category – from sourcing through to contract management.

The successful candidates will have the flexibility to be based at either in Royal United Hospitals in Bath, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust or Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we\’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated \”Good\” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Fully conversant with Public Sector Procurement Rules
• Experience of buying capital or Informatics category
• Evidence of working with wide range of stakeholders
• Able to work independently
• Project Management Experience/Working to deadlines

Desirable criteria

• Previously worked in a commercial NHS Environment
• Relevant degree

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Significant relevant procurement experience
• Obtained level 4 or Working towards MCIPS
• Supervisory Experience
• Evidence of working collaboratively
• Interpersonal Skills

Desirable criteria

• Full MCIPS Registration
• Project management qualification and experience

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren\’t limited to:

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day\’s leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual)
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life\’s challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking
• Opportunities to get on – take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

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