Strategic Procurement Manager

Job Title: Strategic Procurement Manager

Location: Littlemore Centre, Sandford Road, OX4 4XN (Remote with occasional travel to office in Oxford)

Hours: 37.5 hours a week

Pay: £28.90 per hour

Trust Location: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.

About the Trust

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is a community-focused organisation that provides physical and mental health services and social care with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of all our patients and their families. Our trust provides community health, mental health and specialised health services. We operate across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Swindon, Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES).

JOB PURPOSE

• To deliver a strategic procurement service to Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, contributing significantly to the delivery of allocated procurement projects ensuring contract compliance, sustainable cost improvements and best value for money.
• To support the Senior Strategic Procurement Manager in the delivery of cost and efficiency savings across the Trust.
• To analyse current, spend in specific categories to support the development of procurement strategies
• To provide advice on procurement issues to all staff involved in the procurement of goods and services

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Delivering a strategic procurement service to the Trust including, but not limited to: tenders and quotes, mini-competitions and full procurements via (FTS) to ensure best value for money
• Drafting and evaluating pre-qualification, tender and contract documents
• Managing the tender process on the e-tendering portal
• Ensuring that project activity and other procurement tasks are undertaken to the required standard and meet all timescales and deadlines
• Contracting, where appropriate, with neighbouring NHS Trusts for healthcare and ancillary services
• Ensuring full compliance with Trust Procurement policies, Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions and Public Contract Regulations.
• Ensuring contract compliance and dealing with contract performance issues
• Delivery of best value for money and sustainable savings for the Trust by effective sourcing of goods and services
• Providing procurement advice to individuals and to groups through formal and informal meetings
• 1Developing and promoting effective working relationships with departments within the Trust to increase understanding of their professional needs
• Working with the wider Procurement team to identify areas where requirements should be consolidated or contracting activity is required.
• Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Trust policies, procedures and guideline - It is a condition of your employment that as an employee you are expected to adhere to our policies, procedures and guidelines. These can all be found on the Trust’s website.

You’ll have the following skills/experience:

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of working experience.
• Previous experience in procurement and management of contracts
• This role may require you to show evidence of education at master’s level or at least 2 years relevant experience.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
• Experience of public sector tendering and contracting
• Good understanding of Public Contract Regulation (PCR)
• Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise a heavy workload, always ensuring attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Professional approach
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
• Customer focussed approach

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

· Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week

· Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime

· Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts

· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone

· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements

· Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more

· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us

· Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £29.33 per hour

Application question(s):

• Do you have NHS experience?
• Do you have procurement experience?
• Are you a registered Bank member with NHS?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oxford OX4 4XN