Strategic Contracts Manager

Job summary

The Strategic Contract Manager role will focus on providing strategic commercial contract management services for key supplier contracts and ensure effective stakeholder engagement, contract compliance and contract performance management, thereby delivering optimal financial and patient care outcomes to the organisations it serves.

Main duties of the job

This challenging role would suit individuals with Contract Management and/or Commercial experience who understand contract life-cycle management, complex contractual constructs and who have a proven track record in managing customer/supplier relationships up to and including senior management level.

• Strong organisational ability, attention to detail, thoroughness and tenacity.
• Good commercial acumen
• Exceptional negotiation, influencing, persuasion and judgment skills with stakeholders and suppliers at all levels.
• Ability to understand complex contractual agreements for the supply of products and services ideally in a clinical environment.
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex data sets.
• Strong leadership and management skills including written and verbal communication.
• Experience of dispute resolution.
• Ability to identify, plan and drive cost, service and quality improvement initiatives.

About us

The South West London Procurement Partnership ("SWLPP") came together on 1st April 2021 as a new, single procurement service acting on behalf of: Croydon Health Services NHS Trust; Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Kingston & Richmond Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ("Trust") whilst also providing services to the wider South West London integrated care system. The service is hosted by St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who is the employer for the purposes of this advert.

The SWLPP Commercial Team reports into the Finance Directorate and delivers a range of contract, procurement and commercial related services for Trust non-pay expenditure and performs a strategic business management role in support of the Trust annual business plans.