Procurement Manager - Band 6

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Relationship manager for specific Customers; pro-actively engage and work in partnership with key strategic stakeholders to understand their business requirements and tailor services to meet their needs. Actively promote and market procurement, developing innovative and best value service solutions and taking them through the optimal procurement route to implementation. Develop and lead a strategic sourcing programme for specific Customers in the Gloucestershire Health Community; meeting Customer requirements by demonstrating best value for money, through compliance with Customer priorities and contracts and by actively managing the market place through development of key strategies for supplier and contract management. Leadership of Divisional/Customer teams providing strategic direction and ensuring performance targets (including savings) are achieved and exceeded.
Coach, mentor and support staff development. Manage and deliver multiple and very complex, strategically critical tenders/contracts, providing professional and commercial advice, communicating with other Trusts and agencies and co-ordinating contractual activities.Pro-actively identifying opportunities for synergistic collaborative opportunities. Department-wide responsibilities for areas such as defining policies and procedures and co-ordinating responses to DoH requests. Support the Head of Procurement and the Deputy Head of Procurement in formulating the overall PSS strategy and deputise for them from time to time on specific areas covered by remit

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