Senior Commercial / Procurement Lead

* Hybrid working with 1 day per week in Filton (near Bristol)
* NHS experience is useful, but not essential
* An NHS Band 8b salary
An opportunity for your procurement work to have an indirect impact on saving lives as a Senior Commercial/Procurement Lead.
What you'll be doing...
You will lead, manage and be accountable for a Commercial Team with responsibility for circa 100 supplier contracts and ensure that all resources are focused on delivering sustainable, quality, and innovative commercial solutions, in compliance with legislation. You will be leading and supporting category strategies, market shaping, strategic sourcing, and procurement.
This will give you an opportunity to develop long term strategic plans for the sourcing, procurement, and delivery of contracts. Developing & managing a portfolio of larger high-risk projects, typically with a high level of expenditure and / or complexity.
Line managing the team and developing a culture that encourages open communication and managing operational multi stranded budgets for products and services within their category group. You will lead and supporting in the preparation of complex tender documents, inviting tender bids from suppliers including the selection of suppliers following pre-qualification analysis of supplier information and pre-tender commercial discussions.
What you'll need to offer...
* Experience of Market Shaping, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Strategy, and Contract Management including negotiation of significant value contracts and/or significant risk contracts, and disputes at a senior level.
* Supply chain management and supplier relationship management experience.
* The ability to lead strategic planning and implementation processes.
* Time Management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
* Experience in using electronic sourcing and purchasing systems.
* Change management experience including awareness of impacts on Quality when implementing new contracts.
* Decision making and problem-solving skills.
* Leadership and management experience
* Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
Qualifications and Training
* Educated to Master's level or equivalent experience in a professional purchasing area.
* CIPS Professional Diploma Level 6 or equivalent experience.
* Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
What's in it for you...
* Salary Band 8b - £58,972 to £68,525 per annum
* Hours of work 37.5 hours per week
* Contract length: Permanent
* Leave: 27 days per year plus bank/public holidays. Leave increases to 29 days after 5 years service and 33 days after 10 years service.
* Good Pension: The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme
* Career progression