Senior Procurement Business Partner

UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), City of Westminster

Senior Procurement Business Partner

£80465

UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 3 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Full Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Procurement and Supply Chain Directorate at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Procurement and Supply Chain Directorate is a high performing, award winning team which strives to support clinical boards and divisions to deliver their CIP programmes, through value based procurement.

The post of Senior Procurement Business Partner, reporting to the Deputy Director of Procurement, will be responsible for driving productive collaboration by conducting integrated, supportive, and innovative procurement activities.

To meet service requirements and deliver value, the post holder will be expected to ensure where possible synergies are leveraged and sustained to achieve significant and sustainable cost improvement whilst enabling high-quality care to patients and service users.

Based in the Procurement Team, there are five Senior Procurement Business Partner roles that were created in recent years to significantly enhance the service provided to the Trust.

Three posts align with each of our three Clinical Boards, and one for Capital and one for Corporate Procurement., The Procurement and Supply Chain Directorate is seeking highly motivated, analytical, conscientious individuals who can work under pressure in challenging financial times. Each Senior Business Partner will be supported by an Assistant Business Partner (B7) and a shared Procurement Officer (B5). It is expected that each Senior Business Partner and the team will be responsible for working collaboratively with their allocated Clinical Board to plan & undertake a wide-reaching range of procurement activities including tendering (OJEU / sub-OJEU) ensuring optimum value is unlocked from all non-pay spend against deadlines. The Senior Business Partners are expected to be fully conversant in the Procurement legislative requirements and have experience delivering complex projects with a high level of commercial acumen and strong influencing skills. The successful candidate is expected to be confident in presenting difficult messages and complex data to clinical and non-clinical audiences and

able to manage a range of complex supplier relationships. This post is aligned with the Surgery and Cancer Board, comprising of 6 divisions (Cancer Services, NCL Cancer Alliance, Surgical Specialities, Gastrointestinal,Theatres & Anaesthesia and Imaging), leading and supporting on the delivery of clinical procurement activities within a portfolio of projects and programmes that deliver improved patient care experience and cost efficiency savings across the Trust & NCL Integrated Care Systems.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.