Category Specialist - Leatherhead, United Kingdom - Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Leatherhead, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To deliver and support various categories including Corporate Services, Digital, Estates and Healthcare for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT) and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SABP).

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire.

We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population.

We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

Category specialism:

You will be responsible for the planning and coordination of a procurement work plan for the Customer, identifying key procurement projects, key dates, financial values, and sourcing strategies, by drawing upon internal and external data sources and regulations.

You will also be required to assist the Senior Category Managers, and where necessary, the Associate Director of Procurement and the Strategic Procurement Manager in delivering a strategic procurement service on specific/allocated portfolio of sourcing categories and contribute significantly to the delivery of allocated procurement projects within key market.

This will involve ensuring contract compliance, sustainable cost improvements, and a range of benefits across the organisation with due regard for demonstrating best value for money, compliance with category priorities and contracts, and actively managing the market place through development of key strategies for supplier and contract management.

You will be expected to undertake measurement techniques to evaluate the effectiveness in quality terms of products and services and complete market research to drive change and innovative procurement.

You will take the appropriate action when there are persistent quality problems.

Tendering activity:

You will be responsible for the delivery of a number of competitive potentially high value tender / quotation exercises, taking the lead role for the delivery of allocated procurements within key markets, ensuring contract compliance, robust audit trails, sustainable cost improvements, Social Value Act guidance and a range of other benefits across the organisation.

Purchase Orders:

You will be responsible for the authorisation of purchase orders, in line with the hierarchy for authorisation and the general business needs of the organisation such as covering for absences, backlogs, emergencies, etc., overseeing purchase orders for the area.

Framework Agreements

To promote and support the use of applicable framework agreements by stakeholders and procurement staff with a view to reducing year on year the number of independent/open tenders undertaken by The Trusts.

Customer relationship:

To develop and maintain strong working relationships with customers (which will also include external stakeholders), meeting customer requirements and expectations, and setting standards for other staff within the team.

To drive change and innovation in both SPFT and SABPFT, in order to deliver commercial excellence across the regions.

This will be achieved by focussing on:
- improving stakeholder benefit and advantage through solutions
- engaging with stakeholders to understand their strategic integrated business plans and developing solutions that meet the needs;
- developing and implementing project solutions, both on a collaborative and bespoke project management basis;
- engaging with supplier markets to maintain the highest standard of market intelligence

The relationships to be developed are wide-ranging and span varying levels of stakeholders.

To develop an understanding of organisational change and influence in order to be able to respond to the needs of customers.

To develop strategies for the successful implementation, both locally, regionally and at cluster level, of innovative efficient solutions delivering benefits (cash releasing and other) to the customer.

To collect information regarding supplier performance for contract reviews.

Collect and collate information regarding customer perceptions of success of service and contracts negotiated on their behalf, and feed these in to departmental procurement procedures.

(Support development of contract KPIs and assist wit