Head of Procurement

at  Active Care Group

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This is an exciting opportunity for a procurement professional with a proven track record to shape and guide the ongoing development of the department within an organisation that is rapidly growing as a specialist health and social care provider across the UK. The role will suit an experienced procurement professional capable of managing the companys supply of goods and services, whilst sourcing cost-effective agreements and supply partners, to ensure that the procurement function provides value to the business and remains a revenue generating function.
This is a hybrid role allowing the right candidate to work from home or from our head office in London Waterloo, but with a requirement to travel to sites frequently. The head of procurement will be responsible for delivering the projects identified and registered as opportunities on the sourcing schedule, whilst setting the strategy for future sourcing and rationalisation projects to deliver cost improvement programmes across all group spend.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Group Procurement Director, the head of procurement will be responsible for identifying and implementing streamlined procurement and supplier relationship processes whilst engaging with the relevant business leaders and teams to ensure compliance across the group.
Following year on year aggressive growth the supplier portfolio has grown with acquisition. This role will suit a focused and driven procurement professional who is keen to work with all stakeholders across the business, to rationalise and standardise the procurement portfolio, and deliver the procurement workplan in line with business expectations. The successful candidate will be expected to forecast levels of demand for goods and services, conduct the appropriate research to source the best products and suppliers in terms of value, delivery schedules, quality etc. The successful candidate will be able to draft and run tenders, evaluate all bids and make suggestions to the business based on pre-defined quality and commercial metrics.
The business is undergoing an extensive digital transformation, with significant investment in its infrastructure, which includes the implementation of an eProcurement platform to support supplier onboarding, supplier due diligence, contract management and business analytics. We are also investing in a new procure to pay system to support the procurement and finance functions in controlling the spend profile of the business, and to enable decisions to be made based on the real time information that will become available.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone that wants to make their mark in developing a fairly new procurement function, someone who understands the nature of supplier relationships and contracting in a health and social care business, including an understanding of the criticality of suppliers to higher acuity, specialist services. Required to be both hands-on in detailed work, but also self-sufficient and capable of undertaking negotiations and supplier discussions to ensure they are meeting the operational needs of the business.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Provide subject matter expertise to the department and wider business
• Identify key opportunities whilst improving the process associated with acquiring goods and services
• Deliver upon the implementation of a new P2P system
• Identify areas for improvement to continually drive performance and business results
• Develop strong relationships with business stakeholders and strategic supply partners to improve outcomes
• Create policies and procedures for risk management and mitigation
• Liaise directly with suppliers, review associated terms and provide advice to the relevant budget holder to secure prudent relationships and protect the commercial interests of the business
• Deliver the strategic benefits identified whilst remaining sensitive to the business needs, a consistent supply of goods and services to cope with the pace of change across the business
• Set out supplier SLAs to ensure that key partners are delivering the expected quality of service
• Build strong and lasting relationships with partners across the business