AD of Sourcing & Procurement - Corporate & IT

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization in Barnsley is seeking a leader for its Commercial Function. This role requires outstanding leadership in managing relationships with stakeholders and transforming commercial strategies. Responsibilities include leading procurement, analyzing tender data, and negotiating contracts to ensure efficient and quality services. The organization values caring, expert service and quality outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Leading relationships with strategic partners.
• Ensuring expert services in the Commercial function.
• Managing the vision and strategy for the Science portfolio.
• Leading category strategy and procurement development.
• Analyzing and presenting tender data.
• Drafting contracts and ensuring future-proofing.
• Leading high-value negotiations for cost-efficient agreements.
• Developing knowledge of changing markets.

Job description

Overview

NHSBT plays a critical role by ensuring hospitals have the blood products, plasma, tissues, organs, and stem cells to deliver treatments and operations to patients. We take a proactive role in driving improvement and innovation, from emerging new technologies and evolving clinical practice, while reacting to changing demographics and trends. Every day, 24/7 we bring our values of caring, expert and quality to the services we provide up and down the country. At our heart, we are an organisation that enables daily acts of altruism helping people do something extraordinary for others.

Commercial has a crucial role to play within NHSBT. We deliver critical outcomes across a broad range of categories. You will have the opportunity to transform our Commercial Function for the benefit of donors, patients, and hospitals. You will have the opportunity to use your outstanding leadership skills to coach, develop and lead the NHSBT team and our suppliers by shaping and delivering transformational change.

Responsibilities

• Leading a range of relationships and key strategic alliances with senior internal and external stakeholders to shape commercial strategies and ensure delivery of commercial activity across NHSBT.
• Ensuring the Commercial function provides an expert and valued service that business owners understand and believe in.
• Being the lead Commercial expert for the Science portfolio and responsible for the vision and strategy, managing a variety of complex work streams, often needing to shift between multiple areas.
• Leading category strategy, market shaping, strategic sourcing, and procurement strategy development.
• Preparing, analysing, interpreting, and investigating tender data, challenging suppliers proposals, presenting whole life cycle costs to the customers for consideration.
• Ensuring that contracts are well drafted, appropriate, and future proofed for the intended purpose, including an appropriate risk profile for both NHSBT and suppliers.
• Leading complex and high value negotiations and finalising major deals, achieving robust, cost-efficient, and contractual arrangements that represent best value for money.
• Leading the organisation to become more efficient at the same time as continuing delivery of quality and innovative services from suppliers and partners.
• Proactively developing and maintaining specialist commercial, financial, and legal knowledge and to have awareness of constantly changing markets.

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary - donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse