Senior Procurement Business Partner

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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 Surgery and Cancer Board, comprising of 6 divisions (Cancer Services, NCL Cancer Alliance, Surgical Specialities, Gastrointestinal,Theatres & Anaesthesia and Imaging), leading and supporting on the delivery of clinical procurement activities within a portfolio of projects and programmes that deliver improved patient care experience and cost efficiency savings across the Trust & 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 provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

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.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

UCLH top trust to work at in England - for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England - for the second year in a row.

UCLH top trust to work at in England - for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.

Person specification

Knowledge & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 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.
• Relevant Business qualification
• 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

Desirable criteria

• Prince2 or other recognised project management qualification
• A working knowledge / understanding of the NHS and Acute Trusts

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• 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

Essential criteria

• 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

Desirable criteria

• A track record of improvement and organisational change.

Communication

Essential criteria

• 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

Physical Qualities

Essential criteria

• 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.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment. For more information please go to: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/why-choose-uclh/flexible-working.

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.

Additionally, UCLH Arts and Heritage's staff wellbeing programme, Creative Comfort, offers a variety of ways to engage with the arts as a member of UCLH staff. You can try out the weekly choir, weekly art club and join the Culture Club for exclusive access to free and discounted tickets for opera, exhibitions, theatre and more.

We recognise, reward and thank colleagues by nominating them for our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards, which are funded by UCLH Charity.

We are also members of www.mytrustbenefits.co.uk/ which offers discounts on high street retail stores, offers on travel deals, and also to take advantage of cash back schemes.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The emails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs, we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.

Please note that if you are at present in a training position on the 2016 new junior doctor's contract and are applying for a Trust doctor role your salary will not be pay protected.

You will be placed on the appropriate point of the Trust Doctor pay scale based on your previous experience.

Please note that if you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of the closing date of the advert to assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 824.3KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 262.3KB)
• UCLH Values (PDF, 860.9KB)