Procurement Business Partner Clinical and MedTech

Procurement Business Partner Clinical and MedTech

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

To maximise value from the supply chain by developing and leading on strategic procurement and category management across the designated Clinical expenditure category/division.

To be the dedicated point of contact for all procurement and supply chain issues associated with their Clinical category of expenditure and to coordinate activities with the relevant Procurement Category Business Partners where appropriate.

To deliver benefits in line with agreed Divisional, Departmental and Trust targets.

To carry out appropriate levels of assurance and due diligence across the supply chain to assess any risk, confirm appropriate standards are being maintained, ensure reliability of supply, and ensure legislative and contractual compliance.

To develop strategic procurement and commercial strategies for their Clinical division and to maintain short, medium, and long term workplan and benefits forecast with appropriate levels of detail.

The role is to provide a high-level of expert knowledge and skill to ensure:

• best practice procurement and strategic sourcing
• maximise value from the supply chain.
• well defined procurement category plan and strategies
• management of risk
• value for money
• the development and implementation of innovation
• tracked benefits & contract compliance.
• managed relationships with key stakeholders, including suppliers and other agencies such as GPS

Main duties of the job

Proactively manages all spend in allocated categories of expenditure.

Ensures that category services are fit-for-purpose and suitable for stakeholders.

Develop, implement, monitor, and review procurement/commercial strategies for allocated categories.

Develops and maintains supplier relationship management.

Project management of the tendering process from initial scoping through to contract award.

Manage high-value strategic sourcing projects.

Identify and manage risk throughout the procurement process.

Maintain links with relevant bodies (for example Innovation Hubs) to ensure new technologies and innovation are incorporated into procurement.

Use of electronic tendering/sourcing tools, spend analytics tools, and contract management systems.

Job summary

Proposed interview date - w/c 28/04

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.

Job responsibilities

Personal Requirements General

• A significant understanding and knowledge of public procurement.
• Highly developed commercial skills and business acumen.
• The ability to apply that knowledge to liaise with, advise, negotiate, and support the relevant stakeholders with their requirements for products, projects, equipment or services that are consistent with current legislation and organisational policies and procedures.
• Ability to co-ordinate and manage the process of negotiating, awarding, and monitoring contracts taking all the appropriate actions when there are any arising issues.
• Driven to self-manage and perform within a challenging, complex, and busy healthcare environment.

Communication & Relationship Skills

• Requires highly developed presentation and communication skills.
• Be able to develop networks and communicate appropriately with stakeholders and key communication links which may include:
• Clinical Professionals and Independent Contractors
• Staff at all levels and roles in other procurement organisations & agencies, NHS Trusts, and Commissioners across the country
• Suppliers and Supplier Trade/Professional Bodies
• Department of Health and other Government Bodies
• Innovation hubs & Innovation Centre(s)

Analytical Skills & Judgement

• Keep accurate and complete records of activities and communications consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.
• Be able to collect and analyse data in a variety of formats and coding(s).
• Be able to analyse and interpret financial information.
• Analyse and present findings from commercial & tender activity.

Responsibilities for Human Resources including personal and people development.

• Update and develop new knowledge and skills and share information as relevant with other, Procurement Business Partners, Category Managers, and relevant stakeholders.
• Identify own development needs and sets own personal development objectives in line with the requirements of the organisation.
• Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace evaluating effectiveness and feeding back relevant information.
• People Management - the ability to manage, influence and lead people who may or may not be direct reports.

Health, safety, and security

• All post holders at OUH have a responsibility for promoting the health, safety and security of patients and clients, the public, colleagues, and themselves.
• Employees must cooperate with the Trust and its officers in implementing the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 etc.
• Take reasonable care of their own health, safety & welfare.

Quality

• All post holders at OUH have a responsibility for maintaining quality of own work, encouraging others, contributing to improved quality, and developing a culture of striving to improve.

Equality, diversity, and rights

• All post holders shall hold a responsibility to support, promote and develop a culture which promotes equality & diversity across the organisation.

Person Specification

Essential

• 5+ Years experience in a similar post
• Managing large spend MedTech categories

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

OUHC

Garsington Road, Cowley

Oxford

OX4 2PG

Employer's website

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/