Procurement Manager
Role Overview
Permanent, full-time Procurement Manager role with Wessex NHS Procurement Limited.
The role is based at Royal South Hants Hospital and may also allow work from Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.
The employer states it cannot offer sponsorship.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Permanent, full-time Procurement Manager role with Wessex NHS Procurement Limited.
The role is based at Royal South Hants Hospital and may also allow work from Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.
The employer states it cannot offer sponsorship.
Main responsibilities
- Lead strategic sourcing programmes across categories and contribute significantly to allocated procurement projects.
- Analyse spend and develop in-house and collaborative procurement strategies and workplans to support cost and efficiency savings.
- Maintain reporting on procurement workplans, cost improvement programmes and additional project activity.
- Ensure effective use of procurement systems and procedures.
- Manage suppliers and contracts to deliver best value, meet customer requirements and support quality.
- Lead tenders and deliver complex strategic procurement projects.
- Research market risks and trends and guide the team on new business opportunities and continuous improvement.
- Work with end users on compliance with standardised products and rationalise catalogue ranges.
- Advise on contract management, identify contracting opportunities, and manage procurement risks for trials and research and development.
- Provide advice on procurement decisions in accordance with local and national governance and policies.
- Support collaborative purchases, trials and long-term plans for standardisation across the local health economy.
- Advise stakeholders on service-level agreements and key performance indicators, review contracts for collaboration opportunities, and consider supply-chain costs, materials management and stockholding.
About Wessex NHS Procurement Limited
WPL provides end-to-end procurement and supply-chain services for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Services include strategic sourcing, value creation, tendering, contract management, inventory oversight, distribution and materials management.
Employee benefits
- Benefits include an NHS pension scheme, NHS terms of service and annual leave, and an employee benefits platform with discounts.
Requirements
- Experience or capability to lead strategic sourcing and deliver allocated procurement projects across assigned categories.
- Ability to analyse spend information and develop procurement strategies and workplans that support cost and efficiency savings.
- Ability to maintain accurate management information and procurement activity reporting.
- Ability to manage suppliers, contracts and markets to achieve best value and meet customer requirements.
- Ability to advise stakeholders on procurement decisions, governance, contract management, SLAs and KPIs.
- Ability to consider supply-chain costs, materials management and stockholding when undertaking procurement activity.
- Ability to establish and manage effective internal and external stakeholder relationships.
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