Procurement Heads are representing a leading facilities services provider, who keep the national healthcare service at the forefront of their corporate values.
With offices based in South London, the procurement team have an opportunity for a Deputy Head of Procurement to join them on a permanent basis, responsible for overseeing the Clinical category.
The role will require you to line manage a medium sized team of Category Managers, working closely with both internal and external stakeholders to successfully deliver high value, complex procurements spanning across orthopedic, neurological and surgical spend.
As the Deputy Head of Procurement, you’ll
- Provide strategic procurement leadership, advice and expertise
- Manage internal operations and resources to enable the delivery of the vision, business plans, saving targets, day to day operations and financial and quality targets
- Build professional relationships, initiate and lead change to enable all team to deliver savings and quality improvements
- Retain existing clients by delivery on target and ensuring frameworks are in place to facilitate and monitor client contracts
- Work to improve the service, enhance expertise and build procurement capability and capacity
Experience required
- The ability to evidence strategic procurement practices, (multi-disciplinary projects, driving cost savings, delivery of complex procurements)
- Previous experience of managing small to medium sized teams including 1-2-1 support, embedding Procurement and HR policies and procedures across the department
- Contract management including leading processes in line with SLA’s, leading tender and negotiation exercises
- MCIPS/CIPS (nice to have)
- Resource and finance management
- Previous experience of working within the NHS/Healthcare sector would be desired, but is not essential.
Benefits include
- Salary of up to £76,750
- Welcome bonus of up to £500 (post probation)
- Annual bonus of 12% of salary
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Option to Buy & Sell annual leave
- Salary sacrifice arrangements for cycle to work, leasing, tech schemes
- Aviva Pension Scheme (3% employer, 6% employee)
- Training and Development
