Job summary
At Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, everything we do is All Here For You - for our patients, our communities and each other. As Procurement Director, you will lead one of the largest and most integrated procurement services in the English NHS, playing a critical role in enabling safe, high quality care and ensuring our £600m non pay spend delivers maximum value.We are looking for an accomplished, senior procurement leader, educated to degree level (or equivalent experience), professionally qualified (MCIPS) and with deep knowledge of public sector and healthcare procurement legislation and best practice. You will bring substantive experience of leading large, multidisciplinary procurement teams, managing high value and high-risk commercial activity, and operating confidently at Board and system level.
Based at Trafford CSBU and reporting to the Deputy Chief Finance Officer, this role carries responsibility for a mature, end to end procurement function covering full purchase to pay, inventory and materials management. You will combine strong commercial and financial acumen with advanced analytical skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear, credible communication. A compassionate, inclusive leadership style and a passion for continuous improvement, sustainability and value for money will be essential to succeed. If this sounds like you, bring your procurement leadership and make a difference, at scale.
Main duties of the job
Collaborating with clinical leaders, corporate services, and system partners, you will provide professional leadership to a large, multidisciplinary procurement service, shaping an inclusive, high performing culture underpinned by psychological safety and accountability. Chairing the Procurement Senior Leadership Team, the role brings clarity of direction, aligning people, resources, and priorities to deliver stretching operational and financial outcomes.As the Trust's senior procurement advisor, you will lead development and delivery of procurement strategy, ensuring compliance with legislation and best practice, and providing confident governance over procurement risk, contract awards, and waivers. This includes presenting complex commercial advice to senior committees and Board forums and overseeing high value and high risk contracts, including those exceeding £5m per annum, to maximise patient centred value.Drawing on strong commercial, analytical and project management expertise, you will steer delivery of savings targets, budget setting, and monitoring, using complex data to support sound decision making. Through collaboration across Greater Manchester and beyond, you will strengthen system working, manage service level agreements, grow the Trust's commercial offer, and advance digital, sustainable, & inclusive procurement that supports net zero ambitions. In short, your impact will be a resilient, future focused procurement service that supports care today & tomorrow.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need for this role, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. Click here to view the Procurement Structure Chart.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke Candidate Information Pack which provides specific information about the role and the Selection Process. To view this pack, please visit: https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/1-2/ Important Information For Prospective ApplicantsA number of NHS Trusts across Greater Manchester have committed to implement a collaborative Procurement Service in the future. Subject to Board approval, a single NHS Trust will be designated as the employer for this service, with relevant staff transferring. As a result, the role currently being advertised may be affected by this change. Should a transfer of employment and/or amendment to the job description be required, the post holder will be fully consulted in line with organisational policies and procedures.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need for this role, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. Click here to view the Procurement Structure Chart.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke Candidate Information Pack which provides specific information about the role and the Selection Process. To view this pack, please visit: https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/1-2/ Important Information For Prospective ApplicantsA number of NHS Trusts across Greater Manchester have committed to implement a collaborative Procurement Service in the future. Subject to Board approval, a single NHS Trust will be designated as the employer for this service, with relevant staff transferring. As a result, the role currently being advertised may be affected by this change. Should a transfer of employment and/or amendment to the job description be required, the post holder will be fully consulted in line with organisational policies and procedures.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to a minimum of degree qualification or equivalent senior level experience.
- In-depth knowledge of public sector Procurement and Supply Chain legislation.
- Knowledge of Government Best Practice in Healthcare Procurement.
- Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.
- Contract Management Qualification such as Government Commercial College or CCM.
Desirable
- Masters Degree level or equivalent qualification specifically in a discipline directly related to post.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Substantive experience in leading Procurement teams.
- Extensive knowledge and experience of managing high value Procurement and Supply Chain activities within public and / or health sector.
- Demonstrable significant staff management and development experience.
- Significant previous experience of project management within a large, complex, multi-disciplinary organisation.
- Experience of working across a multi-disciplined environment, successfully leading multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes, policies and procedures.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Evidence of developing complex strategies, business plans and programmes and leveraging commercial acumen.
- Experience in being responsible for financial resources including budgeting for a major area, budget setting and monitoring.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Advanced computer literacy, including Advanced Excel with ability to manipulate complex data.
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills with the ability to forge effective professional relationships.
- Problem solving and highly developed analytical skills.
- Ability to work on a number of related projects simultaneously.
- Highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- Formulate long term strategic plans, involving uncertainty, impact on organisation.
- Skilled in being able to conduct analysis on complex data sets to provide concise insights.
Atributes
Essential
- Willingness to work across all Trust main sites / locations as required.
- Passion for driving continuous improvement and value for money within the NHS landscape and public sector.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Education to a minimum of degree qualification or equivalent senior level experience.
- In-depth knowledge of public sector Procurement and Supply Chain legislation.
- Knowledge of Government Best Practice in Healthcare Procurement.
- Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.
- Contract Management Qualification such as Government Commercial College or CCM.
Desirable
- Masters Degree level or equivalent qualification specifically in a discipline directly related to post.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Substantive experience in leading Procurement teams.
- Extensive knowledge and experience of managing high value Procurement and Supply Chain activities within public and / or health sector.
- Demonstrable significant staff management and development experience.
- Significant previous experience of project management within a large, complex, multi-disciplinary organisation.
- Experience of working across a multi-disciplined environment, successfully leading multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes, policies and procedures.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Evidence of developing complex strategies, business plans and programmes and leveraging commercial acumen.
- Experience in being responsible for financial resources including budgeting for a major area, budget setting and monitoring.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Advanced computer literacy, including Advanced Excel with ability to manipulate complex data.
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills with the ability to forge effective professional relationships.
- Problem solving and highly developed analytical skills.
- Ability to work on a number of related projects simultaneously.
- Highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- Formulate long term strategic plans, involving uncertainty, impact on organisation.
- Skilled in being able to conduct analysis on complex data sets to provide concise insights.
Atributes
Essential
- Willingness to work across all Trust main sites / locations as required.
- Passion for driving continuous improvement and value for money within the NHS landscape and public sector.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
