Description
Job Title: Procurement/Purchasing Director
The Maximum Daily Pay Rate: £450 LTD
Location: Inner London
Contract Length: 3 months
Minimum Security Clearance Level Required: BPSS (DS)
Context of the role.
Provide leadership to the CSU procurement function, including:
* Being responsive and visible as the professional and service lead for procurement, interfacing with customers and the senior CSU team.
* Ownership, management, negotiation and governance of all procurement activity conducted on behalf of customers
* Lead assurance processes so that all procurement is undertaken professionally and delivered to a high standard and in line with all national, EU policies and regulations.
* Lead change programmes such as consolidating NEL CSU procurement teams into a single service. This will be characterised by a single set of governance and processes.
* Lead and motivate a diverse team ensuring it is commercially focussed, operates to best practice and seeks opportunities for continuous improvement.
* Develop the service's leadership capacity and plan for post-holder succession.
* Raise the profile and awareness of procurement services within the CSU and its customers and use this to build business development opportunities.
* Proactively develop the service into a sustainable, commercial business unit.
Additions to the job description (role specific bullet points)
* Development and implementation of a comprehensive Procurement Strategy and Procurement Policy for the whole of CSU. Maintain ongoing overview of the operation of this strategy in light of changes in key markets and make such changes as may be necessary from time to time.
* Ensure a high-level support service to PODs and CCGs for the purchasing, negotiating, and contractual activity.
* When appropriate and if required, provide expertise to support commercial negotiations with suppliers involving highly complex variables in terms of volumes, scheduling, deliverables, alternatives, and contract pricing.
* Identify the major procurement, supply and distribution 'workstreams' for the CSU, develop close working relationships with the relevant internal Heads of service
* Lead in the development and implementation of new procurement processes that are required for "best practice" procurement
* Develop and maintain key relationships with current and potential external customers (eg CCGs, Local Authorities, NHS England), CSU POD Directors and senior team members, central team leads (including analytics, finance, human resources) and heads of service.
Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.