Procurement Business Partner - Clinical

Procurement Business Partner - Clinical
Band 8a - £50,952 - £57,349
Based in Gloucester with hybrid working opportunities.
About Gloucestershire NHS Procurement Shared Service

The Gloucestershire NHS Procurement Shared Service is hosted by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) and is set up to provide procurement services and advice to three organisations: our Trust, Gloucestershire Hospitals Subsidiary Company Limited (GMS) and Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC).

By being an NHS Shared Service, we are NHS staff combining our expertise to deliver the very best services we can to our fellow NHS colleagues. By working together as one NHS we share in the values and vision of our partners and work collaboratively to support our regional and wider networks across the health economy.

The Opportunity

The Procurement Business Partner is a senior, dedicated point of contact for the Customer(s), responsible for driving productive collaboration between the stakeholders and the Procurement function in the effective management of both pay and non-pay activity, specifically within a nominated portfolio of Business Units and generally across the full customer base. Ensuring where possible, synergies are leveraged and sustained. The post will predominantly work across all sourcing categories and reviewing activities within their portfolio.

Reporting into the Deputy Head of Procurement you will lead the development and delivery of workplans on the strategic and effective management of non-pay activities within the clinical portfolio and, and generally across the nominated customer business units, by engaging with key internal and external stakeholders in aligning their requirements to wider organisational goals. To deliver value to stakeholders through proactive and innovative procurement activities, through integration and alignment to strategic objectives, whilst ensuring effective non-pay activity.

You will also lead the procurement of major strategic contracts, working collaboratively with the internal clients to decide the approach, and to manage the bidder interaction up to the conclusion of the competition. In addition you will provide procurement leadership for each sourcing project delivering to stakeholders tendering expertise, evaluation expertise, project administration and escalating issues. Compiling project finalisation in the way of reports for relevant Customer Boards ensuring an audit trail is maintained throughout the process.

About You

You will be an experienced procurement professional who has ideally had some experience working with UK Public Contract Regulations. You will also have sound knowledge of contract law as well as e-procurement systems.

Experience within clinical procurement would be an advantage but isn't essential.

For further information about the role or to request a copy of the full job description please contact Joanne Till at Morgan Law on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)

Please note Morgan Law are managing this campaign on behalf of Gloucestershire NHS Procurement Shared Service and any CVs sent directly to the Trust will not be considered.