Procurement Manager

Do you have experience in Procurement/tendering? Are you looking for a new challenge?

NHS Shared Business Services are looking for an enthusiastic and inquisitive procurement professional to join our Strategic Procurement Team, within NHS Shared Business Services.

Due to internal growth, the Team are seeking a highly motivated commercial Procurement Manager who is flexible and can significantly add to the positive reputation of our business.

You will lead on and manage multiple procurement projects for our NHS Customers, managing the procurement strategy, producing the relevant documentation, utilising best practice and innovative procurement solutions, conducting the tender evaluation and award processes. Alongside this, you will also support our customers and provide training and advice on the procurement process whilst providing added value and best practice.

The role will work across the Health, Construction and Estates, Business Services and Digital and IT categories. You will be responsible for developing and delivering procurement projects.

This role offers the potential for growth, with the opportunity to progress into an exciting career within healthcare procurement and gain vital procurement experience within a well-established knowledgeable team. We can offer great career progression opportunities, and give you the flexibility you need, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

This is a hybrid working role with the requirement to attend our Salford office up to once a month. You may also need to attend customer sites as required.

What you will be doing:

• Leading Procurement projects (scoping, pre-tendering activities, tendering, selection, evaluation, moderation and potentially contract negotiation.
• Providing high quality customer focused procurement and service design advice to external customers whilst supporting the team in delivery of projects
• Crafting and maintaining positive, collaborative, and supportive professional relationships with internal collaborators and external customers, as well as actively generating and establishing relationships with new customers.
• Being regarded as a trusted advisor to the customer as well as knowledge of the NHS and its strategic goals and policy drivers.
• Actively generating opportunities for future work through the ongoing development of professional networks of contacts across the NHS and wider public sector.
• Horizon scanning in order to identify development and new opportunities for new and existing customers.
• Ensuring project documents and files are managed and retained correctly to allow for efficient review for audit.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience of working in procurement delivering projects.
• Knowledge of public sector/NHS procurement processes and Legal regulations.
• Demonstrable experience in Procurement activity preferably public sector.
• Knowledge and skill in Procurement process, including tendering and contract negotiation.
• Experience of working on and managing tendering projects and framework call offs.
• Working knowledge of e-sourcing software.
• Effective communicator both verbally and in writing to internal and external stakeholders.
• Able to take responsibility for delivering own work and meeting agreed work objectives, working to customer requirements and governance processes.

It would be great if you had:

• Professional Qualification (or the desire and willingness to work towards) in Procurement (such as MCIPS).

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?