Description
SopraSteria Recruitment are working in partnership with a Public sector organization to hire a Senior Procurement Manager based in Maidstone District of Kent - Harrietsham. Role specs below. Many thanks.
Pay-Rate: £400 per day
Location: Harrietsham
IR35 status: In Scope
Context of the role.
Working in the client's Procurement Team, the post holder will undertake the provision of strategic and complex procurement support services to clients, on a revenue generating basis, as directed by the Head of Procurement for healthcare and other non-healthcare service requirements.
The post holder will support the day-to-day operation of the client's tendering processes for Clinical and Non-Clinical Services including supporting the Senior Head of Procurement to deliver a strategic procurement service, contribute to the delivery of allocated procurement projects, sustainable cost improvements, and a range of benefits across the various clinical services commissioned by the client.
Specialist knowledge
- Have a good understanding of, and the application of EU/UK procurement legislation in procurement activities
- Have a good understanding of the client (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) Regulations 2013 and other relevant client's legislation and policies.
- Have a good understanding of English contract law
- Have an excellent understanding and experience of authoring guidance on the use of best practice procurement techniques and tools
Relationship Management
- Raise the profile and awareness of procurement with clients
- Have excellent inter-personal skills and be comfortable with dealing with external suppliers and stakeholders up to a senior level
- Ensure that key supplier and internal customer relationships are maintained to a high standard
- Engage with established, and create new stakeholder groups, for the purposes of improving communication with Procurement to generate efficiencies, to enable Procurement to be more effective, and to help clients and internal stakeholders achieve their business objectives
- Develop and promote effective working relationships with all relevant staff through effective liaison with client stakeholders and clinicians, facilitating and where appropriate, attending multi-disciplinary user group meetings.
Category Developments
- Keep abreast and aware of developments in procurement legislation, best practice tools, and purchasing technologies including their use within the team's procurement processes
- Attend and contributing to professional procurement events and seminars across the industry
- Work with the colleagues and the Head of Procurement to develop and expand the current portfolio of procurement projects
- Support the delivery and demonstration of best value for money in all procurement processes, by actively managing the market place and keeping abreast of service developments and pricing benchmarking on a category management basis.
- Undertake research to prepare market intelligence regarding pricing, suppliers and their competitors on an ongoing basis in order to maintain market knowledge, and in relation to specific negotiations where it is necessary to develop a thorough knowledge of the complexities of the specific requirement
- Undertake analyses of major areas of supply to cover all key variables (quality, alternatives, costs, supplier confidence, etc.) identifying potential alternative options
- Ensure that value for money is achieved through the provision and outcomes of their strategic procurement activities
- Establish strategic opportunities for aggregation of demand, and standardisation of services across local client domains
Education/Qualifications:
- Extensive specialist knowledge of procurement acquired through post graduate diploma, CIPS qualified plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent
- Evidence of Leadership and Management Development
- Project Management accreditation
Experience:
- Demonstrable experience of working at a senior level within the procurement function of a large organisation
- Experience of procurement within the client or other public sector organisation
- Delivering procurement outcomes and supporting the achievement of commissioning objectives
- Managing customer relationships and working effectively with commissioners and project managers in customer teams.
- Effective supervision and management of staff
Knowledge and Skills:
- Appreciation and understanding of the regulations around Governance and procurement rules in the client
- Neat and precise working methods, maintenance of complete and accurate working papers and filing structures
- Effective analytical skills with a commitment to deadlines
- Experience in writing high quality reports
- Experience of working to tight deadlines
- Experience of creating new/improved systems and procedures to streamline duties
- Experience of using computerised procurement systems