Job summary
The Procurement team is a key service line within South, Central & West CSU (SCW), which is one of the largest Commissioning Support Units in the country. The team has steadily grown and evolved as a result of additional customers being onboarded and work won.
The environment is fast paced and customer focused, and we pride ourselves in delivering excellence. To support the continuing development of the team, including progress toward a category management focus, we are recruiting another Procurement Manager. Depending on the applicant, the role will work within either 1) Technology, or 2) Consultancy & Professional Services categories.
The scope of the work is predominantly commercial Procurement: market assessment, engagement, and management; commercial contracting - formation and management; and project and programme set up leading to competitive procurements including framework call offs and occasional open competitions.
Main duties of the job
To support their clients, Procurement staff must be innovative, flexible, and open to following their customer's vision by looking at procurement processes in a new way. Giving excellent, insightful, and timely customer service despite the fast-paced world in which we work is key to our success. They need to collaborate with customers and partners across health and social care systems to manage, analyse, and improve performance and enable their customers to achieve the best possible outcomes for their service users.
The role will require the candidate to act as the Procurement lead on complex Procurement processes and complete legally binding documentation, so an applicant must be able to evidence experience in this from the Procurement side of a process. We are looking for someone dynamic, ideally well versed in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and evidencable experience in navigating compliant European Public Sector Procurement procedures.
Our work often demands a swift understanding of complex service issues at short notice and following through with excellent commercial and procurement advice and actions. Excellent project support/management ability is expected to help ensure delivery, with strong soft skills to help guide stakeholders and a process to a compliant completion. You will possess a can-do attitude with a passion for learning and sharing intelligence that drives us forward as a team.
About us
Our team uses technology to work smarter and reduce our need for travel, and we expect the role to be predominantly home-based. However, some travel may be required to support projects and develop relationships with key stakeholders.
To find out more about what SCW has to offer, please visit Our offer to you page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information on our specific requirements for this role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information on our specific requirements for this role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Formal CIPS membership or level 4 NVQ in procurement (or willing to work towards it).
- Foundation course in Prince 2 project management
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Evidence and commitment to continue continued professional development
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Desirable
- Understanding of the public sector
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Able to offer excellent customer service; attention to detail and understand the customer's requirements to create effective working relationships with customers and work effectively as part of a team and wider commissioning project teams.
- The ability to communicate on behalf of the Associate Director of Procurement or Senior Procurement Manager on a wide range of issues including responding to correspondence and representation at meetings.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Executive level.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Evidence of success in efficient and effective project management ensuring delivery within financial targets
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals; Understand of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Excellent customer service skills; an ability to maintain confidentiality and trust: used to working in a busy environment; Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change; Professional calm and efficient manner; Effective Organiser
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals; Understand of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- To Liaise with specialists such as subject matter experts, Legal, HR, to ensure full compliance with current legislation and clinical standards.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of using an e-Procurement system
- Experience of working within the public sector and a working knowledge of EU and Public Procurement regulations, Equality Act 2010 and Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
Person Specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Formal CIPS membership or level 4 NVQ in procurement (or willing to work towards it).
- Foundation course in Prince 2 project management
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Evidence and commitment to continue continued professional development
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Desirable
- Understanding of the public sector
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Able to offer excellent customer service; attention to detail and understand the customer's requirements to create effective working relationships with customers and work effectively as part of a team and wider commissioning project teams.
- The ability to communicate on behalf of the Associate Director of Procurement or Senior Procurement Manager on a wide range of issues including responding to correspondence and representation at meetings.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Executive level.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Evidence of success in efficient and effective project management ensuring delivery within financial targets
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals; Understand of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Excellent customer service skills; an ability to maintain confidentiality and trust: used to working in a busy environment; Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change; Professional calm and efficient manner; Effective Organiser
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals; Understand of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- To Liaise with specialists such as subject matter experts, Legal, HR, to ensure full compliance with current legislation and clinical standards.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of using an e-Procurement system
- Experience of working within the public sector and a working knowledge of EU and Public Procurement regulations, Equality Act 2010 and Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
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