AD of Sourcing & Procurement - Corporate & IT

Job summary

NHSBT plays a critical role by ensuring hospitals have the blood products, plasma, tissues, organs, and stem cells to deliver treatments and operations to patients. We take a proactive role in driving improvement and innovation, from emerging new technologies and evolving clinical practice, while reacting to changing demographics and trends. Every day, 24/7 we bring our values of caring, expert and quality to the services we provide up and down the country. At our heart, we are an organisation that enables daily acts of altruism helping people do something extraordinary for others. Commercial has a crucial role to play within NHSBT. We deliver critical outcomes across a broad range of categories. You will have the opportunity to transform our Commercial Function for the benefit of donors, patients, and hospitals. You will have the opportunity to use your outstanding leadership skills to coach, develop and lead the NHSBT team and our suppliers by shaping and delivering transformational change.

Main duties of the job

Leading a range of relationships and key strategic alliances with senior internal and external stakeholders to shape commercial strategies and ensure delivery of commercial activity across NHSBT. Ensuring the Commercial function provides an expert and valued service that business owners understand and believe in. Being the lead Commercial expert for the Science portfolio and responsible for the vision and strategy, managing a variety of complex work streams, often needing to shift between multiple areas. Leading category strategy, market shaping, strategic sourcing, and procurement strategy development. Preparing, analysing, interpreting, and investigating tender data, challenging suppliers proposals, presenting whole life cycle costs to the customers for consideration. Ensuring that contracts are well drafted, appropriate, and future proofed for the intended purpose, including an appropriate risk profile for both NHSBT and suppliers. Leading complex and high value negotiations and finalising major deals, achieving robust, cost-efficient, and contractual arrangements that represent best value for money. Leading the organisation to become more efficient at the same time as continuing delivery of quality and innovative services from suppliers and partners. Proactively developing and maintaining specialist commercial, financial, and legal knowledge and to have awareness of constantly changing markets.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.