Job summary
The Procurement department at Airedale General Hospital is part of AGH Solutions LTD, a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
This exciting new role has been created to support the Trust in delivering its ambitious waste reduction/profit challenge targets and will focus on the delivery of cash releasing savings, supplier and user engagement, contract management, including the monitoring of key performance indicators on high value contracts.
The Procurement team pride themselves on providing excellent customer service to their customers and aspire to be the best they can be, assisting areas in providing the care to patients and users within the hospital and community.
AGH Solutions is committed to allowing its employees to work dynamically with a combination of working on site and remotely.
Main duties of the job
The Strategic Relationship Manager is accountable for the oversight and strategic management of the Trust's extensive Supplier portfolio (c £60M per annum) ensuring that Trust requirements are met, and Suppliers provide best in class levels of sustainable value.
The post holder will work closely with Procurement, Finance, Clinicians and Corporate Senior Leadership Teams and other business partners in developing and implementing strategies to deliver towards strategic goals. They will also be expected to demonstrate effective leadership, strong Supplier management skills, excellent commercial awareness, and exceptional financial acumen.
Additionally, they will be highly motivated, qualities focused and can influence at the highest level, working in close partnership with senior clinical and operational colleagues.
In relation to the Trust Supplier contract portfolio, they will provide exemplar technical and professional support to senior management across the organisation and with a wide range of external organisations including other local, regional, and national NHS organisations, legal advisers and the supplier organisations.
About us
AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualifications to CIPS standard (degree level)
- Full knowledge of computer systems with experience of Microsoft Office
- Management and leadership qualifications
Desirable
- Master's Degree in business associated discipline or industry equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Extensive commercial experience, including success working within the private (non-NHS) sector.
- In-Depth knowledge and expertise of Appropriate Trust policies and procedures and the ability to work within these parameters
- Management of complex commercial Projects
- Writing and developing specifications
- Defining and monitoring SLAs
- Contract and Supplier Management
- Staff Management
Skills
Essential
- Ability to scrutinise, understand and make decisions about complex business problems where there are no precedent and leading opinions may conflict Clinical and Non Clinical
- Proven influencing, negotiating and mediation skills with different stakeholders - must be able to present credible and compelling cases
- Expert leadership skills, innovation and able to challenge and improve processes and ways of working using a wide range of problem-solving techniques
- Excellent analytical skills able to assimilate and interpret highly complex, multi-stranded financial and non-financial information
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience in a commercial or public sector service environment
- Understanding of the culture and accountability of the public sector in general and the NHS in particular
- Experience in developing strategic and operational objectives
- Significant experience of operating at a senior level within a procurement and supplies environment.
Desirable
- Experience in leading a diverse, multi-functional service organisation
- Experience of a widely dispersed client base
- Experience in driving through efficiency gains and service improvement within a long established organisational culture
- Experience with financial budgets and management control of expenditure
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualifications to CIPS standard (degree level)
- Full knowledge of computer systems with experience of Microsoft Office
- Management and leadership qualifications
Desirable
- Master's Degree in business associated discipline or industry equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Extensive commercial experience, including success working within the private (non-NHS) sector.
- In-Depth knowledge and expertise of Appropriate Trust policies and procedures and the ability to work within these parameters
- Management of complex commercial Projects
- Writing and developing specifications
- Defining and monitoring SLAs
- Contract and Supplier Management
- Staff Management
Skills
Essential
- Ability to scrutinise, understand and make decisions about complex business problems where there are no precedent and leading opinions may conflict Clinical and Non Clinical
- Proven influencing, negotiating and mediation skills with different stakeholders - must be able to present credible and compelling cases
- Expert leadership skills, innovation and able to challenge and improve processes and ways of working using a wide range of problem-solving techniques
- Excellent analytical skills able to assimilate and interpret highly complex, multi-stranded financial and non-financial information
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience in a commercial or public sector service environment
- Understanding of the culture and accountability of the public sector in general and the NHS in particular
- Experience in developing strategic and operational objectives
- Significant experience of operating at a senior level within a procurement and supplies environment.
Desirable
- Experience in leading a diverse, multi-functional service organisation
- Experience of a widely dispersed client base
- Experience in driving through efficiency gains and service improvement within a long established organisational culture
- Experience with financial budgets and management control of expenditure
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.
