Buying Team Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of procurement, acquired through degree or equivalent experience or training plus an element of management experience or training
• CIPS qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of CPD

Experience

Essential criteria

• Good level of experience in transactional procurement
• Good level of experience of stakeholder management in a customer and results focused environment
• Experience in negotiation and implementation of purchasing agreements
• Exposure to performance management principles in a multi-site environment
• Evidence of line managing multiple direct reports
• Experience in providing and receiving complex information
• Experience in portraying sensitive or contentious information to large groups
• Experience in analysing complex facts or situations, requiring interpretation, and comparison of a range of options
• Track record in planning and organising a broad range of complex activities; with formulations and the flexibility to adjust plans, strategies or programmes

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within the NHS and an understanding of current issues
• Experienced in supervising support staff; training staff; managing team of staff and can provide training to stakeholders on own project to clinicians, management and staff at all levels

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Negotiation: A skilled negotiator with a broad range of skill sets
• Analysis: Skilled in being able to conduct analysis on complex data sets to provide concise insights
• Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, demonstrating ability to positively engage with stakeholders at multi levels
• Commercial reasoning
• Influencing/Persuasive and Negotiation skills
• Motivational
• Relationship management, developing and maintaining positive relationships
• Project management
• Team working
• Communication
• Information systems and IT skills/keyboard skills
• Financial skills - ability to carry out budget management duties, including administering and monitoring a project budget and/or being a budget holder for project(s)
• Ability to provide advice and direction to service users (and team members) on most cost-effective service provider options and buying channels, taking into account full costs and quality implications
• Ability to manage overtime, annual leave and use and payment of agency of bank workers
• Ability to create and analyse reports, draw conclusions for actions and deliver improvements based on robust analysis of facts
• Ability to understand and apply policy and apply reasonable judgement where required
• Ability to provide recommendations to improve policy and implement new policy

Desirable criteria

• Programme and project management
• Understanding of the EU Directives and Public Contract Regulations, standard terms and conditions of contracts and contract law
• A working knowledge / understanding of the NHS and Acute Trusts
• Finance knowledge

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Spec (PDF, 584.5KB)
• FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS (PDF, 439.8KB)
• CLCH TRUST VALUES (PDF, 720.3KB)