Job Description

As part of the Contracting & Procurement Hub, provide leadership to the procurement team and functions, including:

• Being responsive and visible as the professional and service lead for procurement, interfacing with customers and internally within the ICB providing strategic procurement advice.
• Ownership, management, negotiation and governance of all procurement activity conducted on behalf of customers
• Lead assurance processes so that all procurement is undertaken professionally and delivered to a high standard and in line with all national, EU policies and regulations
• Lead change programmes such as consolidating the procurement and contracting teams into a single service. This will be characterized by a single set of governance and processes.
• Lead and motivate a diverse team ensuring it is commercially focused, operates to best practice and seeks opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Develop the Procurement Service leadership capacity and plan for post-holder succession.
• Raise the profile and awareness of procurement services within the ICB and its stakeholders and use this to build business development opportunities.
• Proactively develop the service into a sustainable and commercial function

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Market analysis and development – benchmarking; developing and implementing strategies to stimulate the provider market.
• Healthcare procurement – strategic procurement advice and delivery, compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, implementation of customer commissioning strategies through appropriate market interventions.
• eProcurement service which supports the purchase and sale of supplies, equipment, works and services
• The technology is designed to centralize and automate interactions between an organization, customers, and other value chain partners to improve speed and efficiency of procurement practices.
• Contract negotiation – negotiation strategies, supporting the negotiation process and contract documentation design.