Deputy Head of Procurement

Job summary

The London Commercial Hub are hosted by NEL ICB and provide a high quality Procurement and Contracting service to other London ICBs and NHS England. The team has a strong reputation for high standards of delivery to it's clients and stakeholders and are looking to recruit additional colleagues to an already successful team.

Main duties of the job

Our experienced team offer support at all stages of the procurement and contracting process, including:- Market analysis and development - benchmarking; developing and implementing strategies to stimulate the provider market.- Healthcare procurement - strategic procurement advice and delivery, compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, implementation of customer commissioning strategies through appropriate market interventions.- eProcurement service which supports the purchase and sale of supplies, equipment, works and services- The technology is designed to centralise and automate interactions between an organisation, customers, and other value chain partners to improve speed and efficiency of procurement practices.- Contract negotiation - negotiation strategies, supporting the negotiation process and contract documentation design.

This role leads a team that will focus on delivering Healthcare and Non-Healthcare procurement projects on behalf of the teams funding partners. The role also involves giving professional procurement advice to key ICB and NHS E stakeholders and leading on the delivery of end to end procurements.

About us

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.