Senior Sourcing Manager -Community/Mental Health/Professional Services

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Professional operational service delivery and business management knowledge to degree equivalent plus further management experience or training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable criteria

• Post Graduate Diploma or Corporate member in Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or other appropriate professional institute or relevant experience (by examination).

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in a Category Management role
• Experience of business development and tender processes
• Modern procurement techniques and approaches, including strategic cost management principles and strategic category management process knowledge.
• Category management strategy initiation, planning and development process leadership Developing ideas for category strategy improvement opportunities within the organisation
• Determining business wide category based opportunities to reduce the TCO of products, equipment and services by clarifying the organisation's business plans that will impact or be impacted by suppliers.
• Stakeholder category management business benefit marketing and relationship management.
• Evidence of providing and receiving complex information,
• Experience in being persuasive and motivational, with the ability to negotiate and train others
• Experience in handling complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options. X
• Experience in handling complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
• Evidence of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities; and formulating, adjusting plans or strategies.
• Experience in using software or systems to develop performance, statistical or management reports

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and experience of EU procurement processes, using Government procurement frameworks
• Experience of being responsible for policy implementation and/or supporting discrete policy or service development
• Experience of line management of a single function or department

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 engage with stakeholders at multi levels
• Strategy Delivery: Experience of delivering and implementing category and sourcing strategies, delivering strategies for various sub-categories
• Financial skills with the ability to monitor or contribute to the drawing up of department or service budgets or financial initiatives
• Ability to work on own initiative, operating within broad policy/procedures, with responsibility for specific area of service delivery

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and awareness of NHS or wider healthcare sector operating models and policy developments would be advantageous, although not essential.
• Leading and Managing Others: Strong project leadership and management capabilities and experience, with capacity to manage multiple small and medium sized projects
• Change Management: Understands change management and process improvement with experience in supporting business process / organisational change

Other

Essential criteria

• Understanding of supplier management and can demonstrate development of a supplier over time
• Demonstrate an understanding of the latest market and procurement trends within the sub-category area of expertise
• Standard keyboard skills / Advanced keyboard skills used for manipulating large quantities of data and preparing complex analysis and reports.
• Concentration required for checking documents, writing reports and analysing statistics, including dealing with interruptions
• Ability to impart unwelcome news to stakeholders

Desirable criteria

• Experience of undertaking complex surveys relating to service delivery, and collating results for reports

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 - SSM (PDF, 680.3KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)