Senior Procurement Manager

We are looking for an experienced Senior Procurement Manager who can drive teams/customers/projects and programmes forward within specific portfolios in the digital arena. This post is an excellent opportunity to exhibit your specialist skills, managing national scale complex procurements and providing commercial leadership within health and social care landscape. The successful candidate will be working with NHS England, Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS.
Excelling at relationship management and procurement delivery the successful candidate will also possess excellent project management approach. You will possess a can-do attitude with a passion for learning and sharing intelligence that drives us forward as a whole team, supporting the one team culture.
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Main duties of the job
The scope of the Hubs work is predominantly commercial: market assessment, engagement, stimulation and management; commercial contracting - formation and management; project and programme set up leading to competitive procurement including framework establishment, management and call off. The remit of the Hub is to share across programmes and be the conduit between national and regional teams. As the Hub is commissioned nationally, the services are free to use at Integrated Care Boards (ICB)'s and general practice. Therefore, the culture has always been one of sharing tools, techniques and products to support customers to deliver best practice
Our work demands swift understanding of complex issues at short notice, following through with excellent commercial, procurement and project advice and actions., The Hub is an integral delivery agent to digitization of the Primary Care agenda as set out in the NHS England Securing Excellence in Primary Care (GP) Digital Services operating framework.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Procurement Manager who would like to work within a fast paced, ever evolving and open culture professional team. This post is an excellent opportunity to exhibit your specialist skills, managing national scale complex procurements and providing commercial leadership within health and social care landscape. The successful candidate will be working with NHS England, Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS.
A good understanding of procuring NHS services, an excellent knowledge of public procurement regulations, and experience of e-Sourcing systems will be essential. The post holder will be leading a procurement team in delivery of commercial programmes of work. Having proven commercial expertise in a digital environment is key as the successful candidate will be providing expert procurement and commercial technical advice, assistance and guidance to team and customers. Developing and actively managing procurement plans that support resource scheduling, management and reporting will be a critical part of the role.
As the Hub is commissioned nationally, the services are free to use at CCG, general practice and legally incorporated practice affiliations level. Therefore, the culture has always been one of sharing tools, techniques and products to support customers to deliver best practice.
SCW offers agile and hybrid ways of working. Hybrid working is a type of flexible working where employees blend working from different locations. It offers the employee the ability to choose to work wherever and however they are most productive, whether it be in an office, at home, or a customer site. Office location can be flexible within the SCW estate and will be agreed upon offer of contract.
SCW staff that are in posts considered to be agile will not be expected to attend office space for general working but will be required on occasions to attend face to face meetings and collaborative working sessions that may require travel to their home base or other locations across the estate or customer sites.
Please feel free to contact the Recruiting Manager of this vacancy to discuss further the working arrangement.
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This is an exciting time to join NHS South, Central and West.
SCW is an NHS support and transformation organisation that helps health and social care organisations deliver the best possible care to people. As partners of choice to more than 200 organisations that support millions of people, our mission is to help deliver the NHS Long Term Plan, improving the health and wellbeing of communities.
We're supporting clients whose vision and quest for innovation requires us to be flexible, adaptable and open to adventure; giving us the freedom to work in new ways, looking at things from a different angle and challenging the norm.
We are an equal opportunities employer committed to attracting and retaining the best people in order to provide the best possible services to our customers. Our people enjoy challenging, rewarding roles, supporting our customers to improve their local health and care services.
We want our people to fulfil their potential so we offer a wide range of training, opportunities to gain qualifications, as well as access to coaching, mentoring schemes and employee wellbeing and support for a healthy work-life balance.
SCW were selected as an NHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion Partner for three consecutive years 2015-2018 and are now proud to be Alumni of this programme.
If you are successful in your application, we will value your experience, your contribution and we will give you the knowledge to succeed as part of your specialist team and as part of our organisation.
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Patients First: our sole focus and inspiration is to help commissioners improve the quality of patient care, treatment and experience.
Aspirational: we deliver excellence, and celebrate innovation. This drives us towards becoming the best.
Collaborative: we build effective partnerships, whilst focusing on delivery. We work towards achieving shared goals.
Insightful: As experts in our fields, we understand the bigger picture and its complexities, we challenge convention, and we uncover opportunities.
Respectful: We treat everyone with respect and hope it will be returned. Recognising and valuing their knowledge, we involve our customers, teams and partners in decisions.
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