Senior Sourcing Manager - Healthcare

Job description

Job responsibilities

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

• Professional operational service delivery and business management knowledge to degree equivalent plus further management experience or training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
• Significant experience managing and leading projects
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable

• MCIPS Qualified or working towards Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or other appropriate professional institute or relevant experience

Experience

Essential

• Good level of experience of sourcing activity in a relevant field
• Significant procurement or commercial experience in the Public or Private sector
• Significant experience of stakeholder management in a customer and results focused environment
• Successful negotiation and implementation of purchasing agreements
• Performance management in a multi-site environment
• Evidence of providing and receiving complex information
• Experience in being persuasive and motivational, with the ability to negotiate and train others
• Experience in handling complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
• Evidence of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities; and formulating, adjusting plans or strategies
• Experience in using software or systems to develop performance, statistical or management reports

Desirable

• Experience in sourcing or procurement in non-clinical categories including but not limited to facilities management, IT and professional services
• Experience of working within the NHS and an understanding of current issues
• Previous experience of working as a Procurement Manager
• Experience of being responsible for policy implementation and/or supporting discrete policy or service development
• Experience of line management of a single function or department

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Negotiation: A skilled negotiator with a broad range of skill sets
• Analysis: Skilled in being able to conduct analysis on complex data sets to provide concise insights
• Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, demonstrating ability to engage with stakeholders at multi levels
• Change Management: Understands change management and process improvement with experience in supporting business process / organisational change
• Commercial Reasoning
• Influencing
• Relationship Management
• Project Management
• Team working
• Communication
• Information Systems
• Financial skills with the ability to monitor or contribute to the drawing up of department or service budgets or financial initiatives
• Ability to work on own initiative, operating within broad policy/procedures, with responsibility for specific area of service delivery

Desirable

• Leading and Managing Others: Strong project leadership and management capabilities and experience, with capacity to manage multiple small and medium sized projects
• Change Management: Understands change management and process improvement with experience in supporting business process / organisational change
• Strategy Delivery: Experience of delivering and implementing category and sourcing plans, delivering strategies for various sub-categories

Others/Key Attributes

Essential

• Standard keyboard skills / Advanced keyboard skills used for manipulating large quantities of data and preparing complex analysis and reports.
• Concentration required for checking documents, writing reports and analysing statistics, including dealing with interruptions
• Ability to impart unwelcome news to stakeholders

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

St Marys Hospital

London

W2 1NY

Employer's website

https://clch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)