Materials Management and Buying Director

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• A postgraduate degree in Supply Chain Management or Business Administration (supply chain and Procurement focus) or equivalent
• Specialist knowledge over more than one discipline / function acquired over a significant period
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable criteria

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply or Institute of Logistics & Transport
• Lean six sigma green belt or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant Senior Management experience, leading Materials Management teams at a strategic level
• Significant experience of realising benefits from automation or RPA projects
• Experience of complex change management
• Specific and demonstrable leadership experience of sourcing as required for the role, including evidence of significant savings delivered
• Experience of leading and being accountable for development of business plans, strategies
• Experience of having responsibility for budget setting and management
• Significant experience in line management of large teams and major activity areas
• Experience in imparting unwelcome news, e.g. where performance targets have not been met, job losses, redundancy investigations

Desirable criteria

• NHS Procurement experience
• Experience of significant organisational transformation programmes
• Experience in making a major contribution to corporate policies and strategy
• Experience of developing performance management reports; and accountability/responsibility of performance management
• Experience in being accountable for a major area of activity with autonomy to act independently, interpret National Health Service policy and strategy, and to set goals and standards for others

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Acts as a strong leader and is respected by executives of stakeholder organisations
• Subject matter expertise in Sourcing, Buyer Management and Supply chain management, and the ability to express that expertise to a range of stakeholders
• Constructs and communicates complex messages to stakeholders with impact
• Ability to process highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options
• Thorough knowledge of Public Procurement Regulations and Public Contracts Regulations
• Engages and operates effectively at a senior level
• Evidence of developing complex strategies, business plans and programmes
• Evidence of developing effective teams, including virtual teams
• Evidence of providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there have been significant barriers to acceptance which needed to be overcome

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and awareness of NHS or wider healthcare sector operating models and policy developments would be advantageous, although not essential.

Other

Essential criteria

• Financially aware and comfortable undertaking complex financial analysis, including development of complex business cases
• Confident in the use of appropriate IT toolsets, including keyboard skills, use of IT equipment and systems
• Ability to have intense and frequent concentration
• Willingness for frequent travel, using road transportation; requirement to use VDU equipment more or less continuously on most days

Desirable criteria

• Maintains a wide network of contacts in commercial and public sector
• Experience in undertaking complex surveys relating to service improvements or performance management

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"

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Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 392.4KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)