Senior Procurement Manager

Job summary

The London Commercial Hub are hosted by NEL ICB and provide a high quality Procurement and Contracting service to other London ICBs and NHS England. The team has a strong reputation for high standards of delivery to it's clients and stakeholders and are looking to recruit additional colleagues to an already successful team.

Our experienced team offer support at all stages of the procurement and contracting process, including:

• Market analysis and development - benchmarking; developing and implementing strategies to stimulate the provider market.
• Healthcare procurement - strategic procurement advice and delivery, compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, implementation of customer commissioning strategies through appropriate market interventions.
• eProcurement service which supports the purchase and sale of supplies, equipment, works and services
• The technology is designed to centralise and automate interactions between an organisation, customers, and other value chain partners to improve speed and efficiency of procurement practices.
• Contract negotiation - negotiation strategies, supporting the negotiation process and contract documentation design.

Main duties of the job

To deliver best-practice procurement support services to our partners.To deliver against personal, project and team objectives and outcomes (including, but not limited to, quality, price and social value criteria).Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance to customers in line with SOPs and ensure a high quality of advice and support provided by direct reports.To exemplify customer-focused behaviours while developing and maintaining productive business relationships with partners.To exhibit collaborative, respectful and professional behaviours at all times when working with colleagues and stakeholders.Ensure that the Seven Principles of Public Life ("Nolan Principles") are upheld at all times. This is essential as the role will require access to commercially sensitive and other sensitive information and adherence to these principles is essential as is confidentiality.Ensure continuous personal and professional development through an expert knowledge and understanding of Procurement best-practice, up to date market knowledge (goods and services), policy, other relevant fields (e.g. Contracting) and the wider NHS health system.

About us

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing