Procurement Director

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will lead a team of centrally and locally based staff in the NHSCS procurement and commercial team including the Associate Director of the Integrated Procurement Service to provide both strategic and tactical procurement to influence in excess of £1bn commercial expenditure across NHS stakeholder organisations, currently within NHSCS.

Key Responsibilities

Communication and relationship skills

Acts as a strong leader and is respected by executives of stakeholder and supplier organisations

Constructs and effectively communicates complex messages to stakeholders

Engages, influences and operates effectively at a senior level

Maintains a wide network of contacts in commercial and public sector

Communicates and manages change that may have significant negative effects on the working lives of NHS and supplier employees

Analytical and judgement skills

Assesses the current procurement and commercial standards across the NHS South East region and determines the best course of action to raise those standards to best in class

Develops effective solutions to meet the needs of stakeholder organisations, often without accurate supporting information

Differentiates between competing but interdependent priorities to identify optimum cost/service benefit outcomes

Planning and organisational skills

Provides input in creating and implementing the NHSCS business plan, clearly identifying links to national, regional and local procurement priorities

Integrates the NHSCS business plan into the wider priorities of shareholder organisations, Department of Health and Social Care and NHSE including relevant regional organisations

Aligns the wider priorities of stakeholder organisations and NHS with the NHSCS business plan.

Responsibilities for patient care

Links the needs of clinicians and other professional groups to the supplier marketplace so that goods and services are selected and utilised to maximise patient care

Creates and maintains internal and external networks to facilitate innovation in procurement of goods and services that lead to improvements in patient care

Ensures NHSCS staff understand how they can contribute to improvements in patient care

Ensures that commercial agreements arranged by NHSCS for the provision of patient care services provide adequate safeguards for patients and their relatives

Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation

Develops and implements procurement and commercial policies and strategy ensuring alignment with Department of Health and Social Care and NHSE including relevant regional organisations objectives and National standards

Develops and contributes to the development and implementation of general policy and procurement and commercial service development within the NHS South East region

Develops and implements strategies for improving procurement and commercial performance at Trust level for shareholder organisations

Delivers value for money, benefits and savings to enable service developments to progress

Responsibilities for human resources

Ensures that the professional development needs of the NHSCS procurement and commercial team including the Associate Director of the Integrated Procurement Service are identified, met and maintained

Ensures an attractive working environment so that all staff can deliver their optimum level of performance

Ensures that the NHSCS procurement and commercial team meet individual and overall objectives

Responsibilities for research and development

Ensures that NHSCS sourcing groups are able to access innovation from supply markets

Commissions appropriate research and development initiatives to secure cost and service improvements from alternative methods of operation, through new goods and services or re-engineering existing processes

Ensures that benefits from research and development and from innovation are realised by stakeholder organisations

Freedom to act

Within the NHSCS governance arrangements, interprets national, regional and local health service policy and strategy and directs own team as appropriate

Operates within the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Code of Ethics

Ensures that all statutory obligations of NHSCS are properly discharged

Ensures that standard operating procedures are in place for the procurement and commercial function and that all staff understand and comply with such procedures

KEY RESULT AREAS

Delivers against core annual objectives agreed with the NHSCS Management and Executive Board

Ensures that stakeholder requirements are understood and met by the NHSCS strategy and annual plans and delivered via collaborative and related workplans and the management of pipeline projects

Ensures that NHSCS is fully integrated with operational and strategic needs of the health economy

Responsible for the operational delivery of the procurement and commercial team including the Associate Director of the Integrated Procurement Service

Designs and maintains an organisational development strategy for the procurement team, enabling NHSCS to continue to deliver benefits for the health economy over the longer term

Secures commitment of the clinical and professional community to support NHSCS objectives

Establishes NHSCS as the center of procurement and commercial excellence within the health economy

Management

To undertake performance reviews for all team members on an annual basis ensuring feedback on performance is given at regular intervals throughout the year.

To promote the principles of Improving Working Lives amongst your team ensuring fairness and equity.

Communicate effectively with your team on a timely basis ensuring robust systems exist so that staff feel informed.

To have responsibility for risk management and health and safety in the workplace.

Key relationships

The Procurement Director will report directly to the NHSCS Managing Director. The Procurement Director is responsible for the NHSCS Team and Integrated Procurement Service (IPS Associate Director and team).

The Procurement Director is a member of the NHSCS Executive team, has responsibility to lead the NHSCS procurement and commercial team and will also work with relevant staff from:

NHS organisations within the NHS South East region and wider NHS including Provider Collaboratives, Integrated Care Board and constituent parts and emerging organisations

Department of Health and Social Care and NHSE including relevant regional organisations

NHS Supply Chain

NHSCS Team and Integrated Procurement Service (IPS Associate Director and team)

Other collaborative organisations

Cabinet Office, Government departments and other agencies

Suppliers and their Trade Associations

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MCIPS professional qualification
• MBA or MSC or other higher degree or equivalent

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development at masters level

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Proven record of procurement management at a senior level
• Public and/or private sector management role at a senior level
• Senior management and collaborative procurement responsibility across multiple organisations/sites
• Expert knowledge of procurement, UK and EU legislation and regulations
• Evidence of achievements in terms of value for money, benefits and savings, process improvements, service re-design and supplier rationalisation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

NHS Commercial Solutions

The Atrium Business Centre

Dorking

RH4 1XA

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)