Commercial Project 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.

The Commercial Projects Manager will support the NHS London Commercial Hub Director/Associate Director by providing, confidential, professional, business management and full administrative support, facilitating effective and efficient internal operations and customer services.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to deliver a varied portfolio of work, operating flexibly both internally and externally with the business as required. They will support the NHS Commercial Hub Director/Associate Director in the first instance but will also be required to deliver programmes in support of other members of the wider Hub team as and when required, providing a flexible management resource to the team to address issues as they arise.

The post holder will need to be able to move comfortably between a number of highly-skilled, unrelated tasks, quickly picking up new things and creating or implementing items from scratch, without guidance or supervision. They will be required to swiftly develop a detailed understanding of the business, and to maintain a thorough understanding of the NHS, the political climate and working for a senior leader within a complex environment.

The role will have responsibility for the professional and efficient operations of the office in dealing with a complex array of internal and external, NHS and commercial stakeholders.

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.