Senior Procurement Manager

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 Senior Procurement Managers to join our 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. Roles could be in clinical, non-clinical or capital & infrastructure teams.

Your primary role will be to work within the Sourcing Team, sourcing a vast range of clinical and non-clinical products and services or capital and infrastructure with an addressable spend value across the BSW ICS of circa £153m. The role promotes collaborative working across the Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire area working with numerous stakeholders and colleagues to positively impact patient care. The successful candidates will have the flexibility to be based either at Royal United Hospitals in Bath, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, or Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon.

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.

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.

Main duties of the job:

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

Person specification:

• Qualifications

• Essential criteria: 5 years procurement experience, Obtained or working towards MCIPS, NHS experience / healthcare procurement experience
• Desirable criteria: Full MCIPS Registration

• Essential criteria: 3 years working within UK Public Sector Regulations, Demonstrable experience of supplier and contract management, Evidence of resilience, Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders, Experience of working collaboratively across a wide geographic area
• Desirable criteria: 3 years category management, NHS experience at senior level, Evidence of excellent communication skills with people at all levels

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
• 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
• 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

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.

We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible.

We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.

If this job requires you to have a DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to repay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary.

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.