Legal Business Partner
Job Posted: 21 August 2024
Job Updated: 21 August 2024
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Job Title: Legal Business Partner
Function: Governance, Assurance & Legal
Location: Nottingham, Alfreton, Leeds, Sheffield, Warrington
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £57,942 with potential to rise to £68,167 over 3 years
Closing Date: Wednesday 4th September 2024
NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Legal Business Manager to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.
We are now looking for Legal Business Managers with experience in procurement law to join the team and help shape our long-term procurement strategies.
The successful candidates will have a knowledge of procurement law to advise on the form of procurements that will help design the procurement processes of the future and ensure NHS Supply Chain’s position as a world-class procurement organisation tackling the dual opportunities that the Procurement Act and Provider Selection Regime offer the NHS.
Every day you will …
1. Support the design and implementation of a commercial compliance framework that follows applicable legal rules and embeds best practices.
2. Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations in line with the SCCL Board’s level of risk appetite, providing the standards on processes and controls.
3. Act as a subject matter expert on Public Contract Regulations, horizon scanning for the organisation, and ensuring that the category team operates to the highest standards.
4. Support the implementation of the new standard procurement documents.
5. Support the pragmatic development of effective and legally compliant category and sourcing strategies.
6. Represent the legal function at meetings of the Category Decision Forum and, where appropriate, the Category Management Forum to ensure that decisions taken are informed by an assessment of legal risk.
What can we offer you?
We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:
7. Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
8. We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
9. 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
10. We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
11. A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
12. Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
13. Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
14. 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
15. Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.