Procurement Manager

Akari Care Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A care service provider in the UK is seeking a Procurement Manager to lead the end-to-end procurement process. This role involves managing supplier relationships, ensuring compliance, and driving value for money in services and supplies. The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical and communication skills, along with line management experience. The role is full-time, permanent, with a competitive salary ranging from £35,000 to £37,000, plus benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven line management experience is essential.
• Ability to manage supplier relationships and compliance.
• Strong decision-making and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the end-to-end procurement process.
• Maintain supplier and contractor compliance.
• Manage procurement projects and supplier relationships.

Skills

Strong communicator

Analytical skills

Proactive approach

Organizational skills

Commercial acumen

Job description

The Procurement Manager will be responsible for managing the end-to-end procurement process at Akari Care, ensuring value for money and high-quality services and supplies. This role involves leading supplier tendering, managing supplier relationships, and providing procurement expertise across various cost categories. The Procurement Manager will also line manage a Procurement Administrator and work closely with the Operations Finance Business partner.

Main duties of the job

The Procurement Manager's key responsibilities include: leading and managing supply tendering processes, continuously seeking optimum supply relationships to mitigate risk, performance management of key suppliers, managing procurement projects between suppliers and care homes, providing procurement expertise in cross-functional projects, managing the supplier and contractor compliance process, setting up new suppliers, and maintaining contract and supplier listings. The role also includes line management of a Procurement Administrator.

About us

Akari Care is a provider of residential and nursing care services for the elderly across the UK. The company is focused on creating a warm and inclusive environment for its residents, while ensuring the highest quality of care. Akari Care's extended team includes trusted healthcare professionals such as GPs, dentists, and dieticians, all working to improve the quality of life for its residents.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Procurement Manager

Overview of Role and Responsibilities

Procurement

Leadership and management of supply tendering processes, to ensure that Akari obtains value for money and high quality services/supplies. End to end management of such processes, from definition of requirement, sourcing, tender analysis, negotiation and implementation

Continuous search for optimum supply relationships, in order to mitigate supply chain risk

Performance management of key suppliers utilising feedback from Home Managers

Management of Procurement projects between supplier and end customer, (our Care Homes)

Provision of Procurement expertise in cross functional projects The role will span procurement activity across a wide range of direct and indirect cost categories

Management of Supplier and contractor compliance process

New supplier set ups - end to end process with supplier and finance colleagues

Working closely with Operations Finance Business partner to analyse spend data to inform Procurement activity

Maintain contract and key supplier listings with most up to date information, and ensure budget holders and stakeholders have the correct information

Line management of Procurement Administrator

Personal Qualities and Experience

Team player hands on, sleeves up approach

Proactive in seeking guidance when working beyond current knowledge or experience

Strong communicator with the confidence to positively challenge, influence and support at all levels

Proven analytical skills backed up by excellent commercial acumen

Positive, self-motivated and able to work effectively without close supervision and on own initiative

Highly organised / structured approach, with the ability to co-ordinate a large number of tasks simultaneously and to tight deadlines

Excellent communication and presentational skills to differing roles in the business

About Us

At Akari Care, we provide residential and nursing care services to the elderly across the UK. Each care home is an extended family, bringing together residents and their loved ones, our colleagues in care, clinicians, hairdressers, commissioners and CQC regulators, members of the local community the list goes on. We are focussed on creating a warm and inclusive environment in which our residents feel a sense of security and belonging, while at the same time retaining their dignity and self-respect.

We never compromise on the quality of our services and our extended team includes trusted GPs, Dentists, Chiropodists and Dieticians, who all work hard to improve our residents quality of life. Our dementia care homes have qualified, dedicated staff who help people to maintain the identity and dignity of our residents. With a focus on living life to the fullest, our homes offer activities such as hairdressing salons, bars, cinemas, gardening, and cooking courses to name just a few!

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: c. £35,000 - £37,000 per annum (depending on experience) plus benefits

Person Specification

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate should have line management experience, be a strong communicator with the confidence to challenge and influence at all levels, and possess excellent analytical and commercial acumen. They should also be proactive, self-motivated, and able to work effectively without close supervision.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.