Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Strategic Relationship Manager (XN09)

The closing date is 17 July 2025

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust have an exciting and new opportunity for an individual to work across Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT, Mid-Yorks Teaching Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals managing the collaborative contracts in the Pathology departments. The role is based out of the Procurement and Supplies department at LTH and are part of the Finance Directorate. Th role is hybrid, with an expectation to attend the office (across multiple sites) 3 days per week. All IT equipment is supplied.

We are looking for candidates with commercial experience in the public or private sector, procurement and contract management skills, a drive for identifying opportunities, a creative thinker, and a role model of the Leeds Way Values. If you would like a role that is fundamental to service delivery and achieving our Trust vision and values, please get in touch to discuss this further.

Main duties of the job

To work with the Director and Associate Director of Commercial and Procurement to ensure value for money from the pathology contracts portfolio across CHFT, MYTT and LTHT. Manage contracts and resources to enable delivery of the vision, business plans, day to day operations, financial and quality targets. Build professional relationships, initiate and lead change.

About us

The role is based out of the Procurement and Supplies department at LTH and are part of the Finance Directorate. The team manages the contractual and financial arrangements for the Trust.

The Procurement and Supplies department has over 150 staff at LTH incorporating Supply Chain, Digital, eProcurement, Warehousing and Contracting. This role would be a key part of the Senior Management Team of the department.

The department strongly encourages development of its staff members to progress in their careers. We pride ourselves on being a diverse team and invest a great dela of time in training Managers on supporting colleagues in all areas of their mental, physical and financial wellbeing.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Date posted

26 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9298-FIN-0143

Job locations

Leeds General Infirmary

Great George Street

Leeds

LS1 3EX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Challenging and influencing the supplier portfolio in terms of managing the level of demand, guiding and advising colleagues to ensure the most appropriate commercial terms are put in place to meet standards and delivering best value for the Trust

Identifying opportunities to consolidate the supplier landscape and develop strategic partnerships that unlock further value

Proactively seek to identify and win new commercial opportunities for the Trust that generates new income, reduces costs or enhances the use of resources.

Lead and influence the Trusts Procurement & Finance Department to define sourcing requirements and support contract negotiations, ensuring that the supplier portfolio meets the Trusts strategic needs for next 2-5 (rolling) years

Representing the Commercial and Procurement function by engaging and influencing senior Trust stakeholders and industry healthcare and support services practitioners to ensure effective buy-in to proposed strategies

Creating a culture of continual learning, improvement and industry best practice

Designing, scoping, implementing and managing an evolving Supplier Management process and roadmap

Line management of the function as the scope of the post develops. This includes staff appraisals and dealing with disciplinary, grievance and performance issues of staff.

Managing large and/or complex contracts, ensuring that they are still relevant, compliant and meet the current standards to deliver best value

Defining contractual SLAs to ensure service, quality and stakeholder requirements are met or exceeded

Ensuring an appropriate Business Case process is followed to support investment decisions together with the capability to provide appraisal options of various solutions in terms of cost, benefits and risks

Providing critical analysis and market research by analysing all available forms of competitive and internal data to identify risks and opportunities; developing the necessary financial analysis and evaluation model to assess proposals and outcomes

Managing the resolution of all significant contract issues; communicate and report all routine and complex issues arising to a wide range of internal stakeholders

Leading organisational and policy change associated with Commercial and Supplier Management

Where relevant, managing the performance of external suppliers and their delivery of the agreed contract terms

Developing and implementing systems to measure and communicate results, risks, opportunities on the performance of all Trust contracts to stakeholder partners

Working closely with colleagues across the Trust and with the broader Procurement team to understand and interpret needs in order to design and deliver appropriate commercial arrangements

Working closely with the Procurement team to define sourcing requirements, manage complex contractual issues and support new and on-going contract negotiations; ensuring full compliance with Trust Procurement regulations

Working with the Finance team to ensure that all contractual obligations are appropriately funded for the term of contract

Work with CSUs, Corporate and Procurement teams to plan, review and prioritise the Contracts to ensure that Trust priorities are met and responsibilities for areas of work are appropriately allocated

Feed into the financial position of programmes / projects by developing, monitoring, controlling and reporting on contracts, ensuring that the funding is properly managed and reported

Ensure that the Trust is kept up to date with supplier market conditions and changes

Contribute to the delivery of the Trust capital programme by negotiating appropriate phased payment profiles

To establish a communication plan to ensure progress and success in delivering Trust strategy and supporting contracts is communicated to all staff involved in or impacted to maintain their awareness and support

Effectively communicate the department objectives to team members in a timely and unambiguous fashion

Establish and nurture conducive working relationships throughout the commercial and procurement teams and with other groups of staff at all level across the Local Health Care Community

To represent to Trust at local and national events as and when required