Buying Team Manager

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London is seeking a Buying Team Manager. You will lead a team to ensure effective purchasing and compliance with governance while achieving performance metrics. The ideal candidate has proven experience in procurement management. This role offers a comprehensive induction, flexible working options, and other benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction

Car lease scheme

Flexible working options

Annual travel card loan

Training and development support

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement and supply chain management.
• Ability to achieve Service Level Agreement KPIs.
• Proven track record in team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage effective purchasing for all sourcing.
• Ensure compliance with NWLPS governance.
• Identify opportunities for leveraging existing contracts.

Skills

Sourcing and procurement management

Team management

Customer service

Compliance with governance

Job description

NWL Procurement Services (“NWL PS”) is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all members (“NWL Members”).

The Buying Team Manager will manage a team to ensure the effective purchasing of all sourcing that NWL PS governance and strategy determines are not subject a full tender requirement, delivering excellent customer service, best value and compliance with NWLPS governance. The Buying Team Manager shall work in accordance with direction from the Director of Materials Management & Buying to ensure that existing contracts are leveraged where possible, and that future requirements are defined to minimise the level of sourcing activity not subject to a full tender requirement.

The Buying Team Manager shall ensure that the areas for which they are responsible achieve or exceed the Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWLPS performance metrics.

Work in accordance with the direction of the Director of Materials Management & Buying to ensure that sourcing is a value-adding activity.

Responsible for ensuring that opportunities to leverage existing contracts are proactively identified and implemented in accordance with NWLPS governance.

Responsible for ensuring that the team operate in accordance with NWLPS governance and wider legislation, including implementing measures to identify disaggregation of requirements to avoid full tender.

Proactively work to achieve Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWLPS performance improvement metric targets

Responsible for providing and receiving highly complex information when dealing with a range of issues from both internal and external stakeholders

Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!

We Can Offer You

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career
  
  

To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nasar Sadiq Job title: Director of Materials Management and Buying Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07771341725