Director of Procurement

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an Interim Director of Procurement for Bristol and Weston Procurement Consortium which provides all procurement support to both University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) and North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT).

BWPC is a team of circa. 50 procurement professionals and manages a spend of circa.£500m on behalf of its consortium partners. We are in the midst of implementing SAP as a new procurement system across both Trusts and are looking for an Interim Director to lead the team through this period of change whilst providing business as usual support to our partners in the delivery of their strategic aims and operational compliance and savings targets.

Main duties of the job

In this role the successful candidate will :

• Lead a modern purchasing and supply organisation that is focused on delivering benefits from service consolidation and the purchasing power of the two acute trusts, regional procurement network and the wider NHS Supply Chain arrangements.
• Maintain a strategic focus that is centred on the long-term goals for delivering a "best in class" supply chain and that raises the standards of NHS procurement
• Organise and manage the resources within the team to deliver against the recently issued Procurement Strategy which was developed in support of the strategic priorities of each of the Acute Trust partners
• Improve on key performance indicators for the service in line with the nationally established core measures.
• Be accountable for the financial management of the Purchasing Consortium's c£2.7m operating budget, rebasing annually to determine the apportionment of costs for member organisations to fully represent the service provision

About us

This role is collaborated across two Organisations that includes North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS Trust

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.