Site University College London Hospitals Town London Salary £70,387 - £80,465 Per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 31/03/2025 23:59
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Procurement and Supply Chain Directorate at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Procurement and Supply Chain Directorate is a high performing, award winning team which strives to support clinical boards and divisions to deliver their CIP programmes, through value based procurement.
The post of Senior Procurement Business Partner, reporting to the Deputy Director of Procurement, will be responsible for driving productive collaboration by conducting integrated, supportive, and innovative procurement activities.
To meet service requirements and deliver value, the post holder will be expected to ensure where possible synergies are leveraged and sustained to achieve significant and sustainable cost improvement whilst enabling high-quality care to patients and service users.
Based in the Procurement Team, there are five Senior Procurement Business Partner roles that were created in recent years to significantly enhance the service provided to the Trust.
Three posts align with each of our three Clinical Boards, and one for Capital and one for Corporate Procurement.
Main duties of the job
The Procurement and Supply Chain Directorate is seeking highly motivated, analytical, conscientious individuals who can work under pressure in challenging financial times.
Each Senior Business Partner will be supported by an Assistant Business Partner (B7) and a shared Procurement Officer (B5). It is expected that each Senior Business Partner and the team will be responsible for working collaboratively with their allocated Clinical Board to plan & undertake a wide-reaching range of procurement activities including tendering (OJEU / sub-OJEU) ensuring optimum value is unlocked from all non-pay spend against deadlines.
The Senior Business Partners are expected to be fully conversant in the Procurement legislative requirements and have experience delivering complex projects with a high level of commercial acumen and strong influencing skills. The successful candidate is expected to be confident in presenting difficult messages and complex data to clinical and non-clinical audiences and able to manage a range of complex supplier relationships.
This post is aligned with the Capital and Maintenance, leading and supporting on the delivery of capital projects and clinical maintenance of specialist equipment within a portfolio of projects and programmes that deliver improved patient care experience and cost efficiency savings across the Trust and NCL Integrated Care Systems.
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person specification
Knowledge & Qualifications
* Recognised continuing professional development at an advanced level.
* Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
* Strong understanding of the various levers of unlocking value from procurement and supply chain, such as sourcing, tendering, demand management, standardisation and contract management.
* Understanding of the EU Directives and Public Contract Regulations, NHS standard terms and conditions of contracts and sound knowledge of contract law.
* Advanced IT skills including knowledge of specialist software for contract management, electronic catalogue and e-procurement systems to ensure efficient use of procurement enablement technologies (eg e-auctions).
* Able to analyse and interpret spend data and quotations, as well as undertake market analysis.
* Good knowledge of Microsoft Office software, particularly Microsoft Excel
* Knowledge of Bribery Act & Data Protection.
* Degree, Master’s Degree or MBA/MPA
* Specialist commercial / NHS experience and knowledge in Procurement
* Working knowledge of the NHS / Public sector
* Finance knowledge
* Statistical and data analysis skills
* Prince2 or other recognised project management qualification
* A working knowledge / understanding of the NHS and Acute Trusts
Skills & Abilities
* Excellent persuasion, influencing and conflict resolution skills.
* Highly motivated and conscientious.
* Excellent written and oral communications and interpersonal skills.
* Commercial acumen within procurement.
* Programme and project management.
* Excellent analytical skills.
* Able to successfully lead and work with teams.
* Well-developed political awareness, delegation, people and workload management skills.
* IT literate and skilled in evaluation, analysis and reporting.
* Commitment to personal, staff and organisational development.
* Ability to identify, develop, nurture and promote innovate approaches to service development.
* Applies self to drive for timely results across a number of complex projects, supportive of colleagues in dealing with ambiguity and changing priorities.
Experience
* Evidence of delivering complex projects.
* Evidence of category management and tendering experience.
* Experience of managing outsourcing and outsourced contracts.
* Fact based dynamic decision making.
* Experience of working in a pressurised environment.
* Highly ethical and committed to achieving high quality procurement outcomes.
* Supports and encourages teamwork with colleagues to ensure that common objectives are embraced with clarity about where accountability lies.
* Meets tight deadlines in a fast paced dynamic environment with consistently high levels of performance.
* Experience of working within the NHS and an understanding of current issues.
* A track record of improvement and organisational change.
Communication
* Highly developed interpersonal communication (Written and oral) and facilitating skills.
* Strong positive influencing skills.
* The ability to present to large, potentially critical audiences in a confident manner and respond to questions authoritatively.
* The ability to manage and chair meetings of stakeholders from a range of different business disciplines and drive actions.
* Experience of presenting to the board in medium to large organisations.
* Experience of key supplier / large, complex contact management.
Specific Requirements
* The job will be a combination of desk based activity and being active across all Trust sites.
* The role will require some travel, mainly within London.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
At UCLH we take equality of opportunity seriously and are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities. Applications are encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to support our world class research, innovation and creativity.
We offer our permanent staff an interest free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle to work scheme and on-site accommodation to name a few.
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
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