Procurement Lead

Are you a procurement professional looking for an exciting and challenging new role? We are working on building a £1billion modern healthcare campus - a once in a generation opportunity to transform health care in mid Cheshire. The new £multimillion hospital will be a state of the art digitally enabled building providing the best care possible in a modern patient friendly environment. As programme Procurement Lead you will be responsible for procurement activity across the programme, ensuring compliance with EU Procurement Directives, UK Law, and Trust Standing Financial instruction.

Working with key stakeholders you will develop a comprehensive procurement strategy aligned with scheme goals and timelines, conducting thorough market research, engaging with the market and evaluating suppliers identifying potential vendors, ensuring the selection of reliable and cost-effective partner. For full details of this fantastic opportunity please refer to the job description and person spec.

The friendly and collaborative Healthier Futures Programme Management team are based in their own offices on site at Leighton Hospital, Crewe. We also have offices at Infinity House in Crewe. The Trust supports flexible working and is located in a beautiful countryside setting with excellent city links.

This is an amazing opportunity to be involved in a major civil engineering project which aims to transform the welfare of the people of Cheshire well into the future.

Main duties of the job

To develop a comprehensive procurement strategy aligned with scheme goals and timelines, ensuring compliance with procurement regulations and the wider HF procurement and commercial strategy, conducting thorough market research, engaging the market and evaluate suppliers to identify potential vendors, ensuring the selection of reliable and cost-effective partner

The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring effective processes are in place relating to procurement for the hospital redevelopment., ensuring that social value is embedded into all our procurement processes to enable successful delivery of the programmes social value strategy

The post-holder will need to proactively work independently to develop robust procurement relationships with both internal and external customers, ensuring continuous improvement and quality are achieved. The post holder will be responsible for the development and continuous improvement of the procurement work plan for the programme.

Responsible for designing, supporting and delivering training to the wider programme team and the programmes procurement work plan and ensuring sufficient resource is in place, maintaining and overview of all projects and ensuring interdependencies and progress are monitored and reported as necessary.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).

The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff.

An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.

We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.