Procurement Service Operations Manager

PROCUREMENT SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGER

Location: Theale, West Berkshire

• Permanent Position
• Based in Theale
• Salary: Negotiable + Car Allowance
• Hybrid working available
• CIPS Level 4 or above essential

This is an exciting role working for our client who is a highly successful healthcare company based in West Berkshire.

Your role will be to ensure both the profitability and quality of the outsourced contracts and contract renewals are managed efficiently. Our client is therefore looking for an experienced manager who can build excellent stakeholder relationships and drive collaborative change.

Your Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead UKI procurement of external service contracts and service parts for the business, including biomedical and endoscopy equipment.
• Support the Head of Procurement and Supply Chain to develop long-term supplier management strategies that balance the Group’s drive to insource maintenance whilst securing value for money from OEMs.
• Support Head of Procurement and Supply Chain with capital procurement projects when required.
• Deploy good decision processes and techniques to optimise profit and value and balance the risk from the external spend.
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure procurement from external suppliers is profitable, resilient, sustainable and safe.
• Deliver quarterly reporting on category spend, profitability comparison and team savings.
• Support company bids and pricing exercises from a procurement perspective.
• Collaborate across the business areas to develop, implement and drive procurement and supply chain strategies for assigned projects.
• Develop and maintain key supplier framework agreements.
• Develop and manage clear, deliverable SLAs with internal customers.
• Embed a culture of quality and continuous improvement within your team.
• Support Head of Procurement to deliver the operations 3-year plan.
• Responsible for the management of a team (presently a team of six).
• Budget of circa £8m for responsible categories.

The Person – Skills and Experience:

• Must have minimum CIPS Level 4
• Strong procurement background within an integrated supply chain, including service and material management. Ideally at least 5 years’ experience.
• Experience in Cost Management, SRM and Performance improvement.
• Proven ability to work successfully in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment.
• Experience of negotiating and monitoring service contracts.
• Numerical, analytical & logical mind.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Intermediate Excel.
• Knowledge of biomedical and/or endoscopy devices.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
• After successfully completing 6-month probation period, enrolment into Death in Service scheme (4 x salary)
• Pension (enrolment after 3 months of employment)
• Perkbox – discounts/offers with various popular brands
• Cycle to work scheme (after 3 months of employment)
• Electric Car Scheme

If this role is of interest and you would like further information, please call either Kate or Lindsay at Dovetail HRS on 01635 43100 to discuss further.