Materials Management and Buying Director

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 113,000 - 130,000

Job description

Materials Management and Buying Director

North West London Procurement Services aim is to deliver best value procurement outcomes for the NHS through collaborative working Partner organisations across North West London collectively spend £1.7 billion on goods, works, and services each year. With such significant spending power, there's a huge opportunity to take procurement to the next level -- driving a smart, sector-wide approach that boosts transparency, delivers value for money, and helps cut costs.

That's where the "Stronger Together" Procurement Strategy comes in. This action plan is key to making sure our spending aligns perfectly with sector objectives, helping us deliver our priorities and make a difference. Leading this effort is North West London Procurement Shared Services. We are here to unlock greater value from procurement and open doors to exciting new commercial opportunities for the entire sector.

A vacancy has arisen for a Materials Management & Buying Director role to have overall responsibility for management, leadership, and strategic direction of all the Materials Management and Buying/Catalogues functionality on behalf of the North West London Procurement Services (NWLPS), ensuring that NWL members obtain excellent customer service, best value for money and compliance with NWLPS governance.

Main duties of the job

NWL Procurement Services ("NWL PS") is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all members ("NWL Members").

The Materials Management & Buying Director has overall accountability for management and leadership of the Deliver function of the NWL Procurement Services ("NWL PS") ensuring that materials management and all buying activity is delivered to provide NWL Members with excellent customer service, best value for money and compliance with NWL PS governance.

This includes the provision of expert direction to the Materials Management teams to ensure the excellent service is provided to NWL Members. The Materials Management & Buying Director shall be accountable and must ensure monitoring and measurement of performance of the Materials Management team against key areas identified in the Service Level Agreement and internal performance measurement metrics.

The Materials Management & Buying Director shall be the professional lead for materials management in NWL PS and lead the operational management of the buying and catalogue team, as supported by the Head of Buying and Catalogues in the identification and delivery of change projects to improve the service and enhance service efficiency.

About us

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: Pay and Benefits

Job responsibilities

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• A postgraduate degree in Supply Chain Management or Business Administration (supply chain and Procurement focus) or equivalent
• Specialist knowledge over more than one discipline / function acquired over a significant period
• Evidence of CPD
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply or Institute of Logistics & Transport

Experience

• Significant Senior Management experience, leading Materials Management teams at a strategic level
• Significant experience of realising benefits from automation or RPA projects
• Experience of complex change management
• Specific and demonstrable leadership experience of sourcing as required for the role, including evidence of significant savings delivered
• Experience of leading and being accountable for development of business plans, strategies
• Experience of having responsibility for budget setting and management
• Significant experience in line management of large teams and major activity areas
• Experience in imparting unwelcome news, e.g. where performance targets have not been met, job losses, redundancy investigations
• Experience of significant organisational transformation programmes
• Experience in making a major contribution to corporate policies and strategy
• Experience of developing performance management reports; and accountability/responsibility of performance management
• Experience in being accountable for a major area of activity with autonomy to act independently, interpret National Health Service policy and strategy, and to set goals and standards for others

Skills and Knowledge

• Acts as a strong leader and is respected by executives of stakeholder organisations
• Subject matter expertise in Sourcing, Buyer Management and Supply chain management, and the ability to express that expertise to a range of stakeholders
• Constructs and communicates complex messages to stakeholders with impact
• Ability to process highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options
• Thorough knowledge of Public Procurement Regulations and Public Contracts Regulations
• Engages and operates effectively at a senior level
• Evidence of developing complex strategies, business plans and programmes
• Evidence of developing effective teams, including virtual teams
• Evidence of providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there have been significant barriers to acceptance which needed to be overcome
• Knowledge and awareness of NHS or wider healthcare sector operating models and policy developments would be advantageous, although not essential.

Other

• Financially aware and comfortable undertaking complex financial analysis, including development of complex business cases
• Confident in the use of appropriate IT toolsets, including keyboard skills, use of IT equipment and systems
• Ability to have intense and frequent concentration
• Willingness for frequent travel, using road transportation; requirement to use VDU equipment more or less continuously on most days
• Maintains a wide network of contacts in commercial and public sector
• Experience in undertaking complex surveys relating to service improvements or performance management

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.

£113,557 to £129,443 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS