Procurement Business Partner Clinical and MedTech

To maximise value from the supply chain by developing and leading on strategic procurement and category management across the designated Clinical expenditure category/division.

To be the dedicated point of contact for all procurement and supply chain issues associated with their Clinical category of expenditure and to coordinate activities with the relevant Procurement Category Business Partners where appropriate.

To deliver benefits in line with agreed Divisional, Departmental and Trust targets.

To carry out appropriate levels of assurance and due diligence across the supply chain to assess any risk, confirm appropriate standards are being maintained, ensure reliability of supply, and ensure legislative and contractual compliance.

To develop strategic procurement and commercial strategies for their Clinical division and to maintain short, medium, and long term workplan and benefits forecast with appropriate levels of detail.

The role is to provide a high-level of expert knowledge and skill to ensure:

o best practice procurement and strategic sourcing

o maximise value from the supply chain.

o well defined procurement category plan and strategies

o management of risk

o value for money

o the development and implementation of innovation

o tracked benefits & contract compliance.

o managed relationships with key stakeholders, including suppliers and other agencies such as GPS., Category Management

Proactively manages all spend in allocated categories of expenditure.

Ensures that category services are fit-for-purpose and suitable for stakeholders.

Develop, implement, monitor, and review procurement/commercial strategies for allocated categories.

Develops and maintains supplier relationship management.

Project management of the tendering process from initial scoping through to contract award

Manage high-value strategic sourcing projects.

Identify and manage risk throughout the procurement process.

Maintain links with relevant bodies (for example Innovation Hubs) to ensure new technologies and innovation are incorporated into procurement.

Use of electronic tendering / sourcing tools, spend analytics tools, and contract management systems.
Project Management

Project management of bespoke category procurement exercises on behalf of stakeholders through conception to completion.
Analysis & Reporting

Report on procurement and commercial activity to the division and for the spend categories via appropriate and relevant ways (dashboards, reports, KPIs, data analysis)

Conduct financial analysis in support of individual procurement projects to assess impact on budgets for stakeholder.

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