Contracts Manager (Grade D)

AGH Solutions Ltd

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Job summary

The contracts team within the Procurement department seek applicants for our Contracts Manager Vacancy.

We're looking for an individual with procurement experience in managing contracts and complex projects and/or tenders. Applicants will need to demonstrate strong knowledge and experience of procurement practices. You will lead key Procurements and support management of the Contracts team, ensuring contracts are renewed timely and in a compliant manner.

You should have good leadership and project management skills as well as excellent negotiation skills and be a good communicator. Be a member of CIPS (or equivalent) or be studying towards this or equivalent.

Main duties of the job

To Provide a high-quality professional Procurement service to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford District Care Foundation Trust, Integrated Laboratory Solutions LLP, Bradford and Craven Clinical Commissioning Groups and AGH Solutions Ltd and other partners ensuring compliance with legislation, national and local policies.

Leads all strategic procurement issues with a view to maximising the savings potential across the patch with more efficient and effective purchasing arrangements with a contribution to both Trust's non-pay expenditure.

About us

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHSFT specifically.

Date posted

26 September 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£36,190 a year (2023/2024 rates) per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

423-6675355

Job locations

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD


Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good level of general education
  • Professional qualifications to CIPS standard (degree level) or equivalent, or working towards

Desirable

  • Management and leadership qualifications
  • Project management qualifications
  • Be a Procurement Act 2023 Practitioner (or equivalent) or be studying towards this or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in staff management, supervisory and team management.
  • Negotiation experience
  • Experience in a commercial or public sector service environment

Desirable

  • Experience in leading a diverse, multi-functional service organisation
  • Experience of a widely dispersed client base.
  • Experience in developing an organisation to meet new challenges
  • Experience in driving through efficiency gains and service improvement within a long established organisational culture
  • Experience with financial budgets and management control of expenditure
  • Experience in developing strategic and operational objectives
  • Experience of Project Management
  • oExperience of recruitment and selection
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good level of general education
  • Professional qualifications to CIPS standard (degree level) or equivalent, or working towards

Desirable

  • Management and leadership qualifications
  • Project management qualifications
  • Be a Procurement Act 2023 Practitioner (or equivalent) or be studying towards this or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in staff management, supervisory and team management.
  • Negotiation experience
  • Experience in a commercial or public sector service environment

Desirable

  • Experience in leading a diverse, multi-functional service organisation
  • Experience of a widely dispersed client base.
  • Experience in developing an organisation to meet new challenges
  • Experience in driving through efficiency gains and service improvement within a long established organisational culture
  • Experience with financial budgets and management control of expenditure
  • Experience in developing strategic and operational objectives
  • Experience of Project Management
  • oExperience of recruitment and selection

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

AGH Solutions Ltd

Address

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD


Employer's website

https://aghsolutions.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

AGH Solutions Ltd

Address

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD


Employer's website

https://aghsolutions.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Senior Contracts Manager

Rosanne Buffrey

rosanne.buffrey@nhs.net

01535294995

Date posted

26 September 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£36,190 a year (2023/2024 rates) per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

423-6675355

Job locations

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD


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