North West London Procurement Services (NWL PS) is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all of its members.
The Buying Team Manager will manage a team to ensure the effective purchasing of all sourcing activities that the NWL PS strategy determines are not subject a full tender requirement, delivering excellent customer service, best value and compliance with NWLPS governance. The Buying Team Manager will work in accordance with direction from the Director of Materials Management & Buying to ensure that existing contracts are leveraged where possible, and that future requirements are defined to minimise the level of sourcing activity not subject to a full tender requirement.
The Buying Team Manager will ensure that the areas for which they are responsible achieve or exceed the Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWLPS performance metrics on a consistent basis.
Work in accordance with the direction of the Director of Materials Management & Buying to ensure that sourcing is a value-adding activity.
Responsible for ensuring that opportunities to leverage existing contracts are proactively identified and implemented in accordance with NWL PS governance.
Responsible for ensuring that the team operate in accordance with NWL PS governance and wider legislation, including implementing measures to identify disaggregation of requirements to avoid full tender.
Proactively work to achieve Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWL PS performance improvement metric targets
Responsible for providing and receiving highly complex information when dealing with a range of issues from both internal and external stakeholders
Providing leadership and direction to the team supporting continuous improvement, development, and training to drive operational excellence
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, 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
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- 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: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nasar Sadiq Job title: Director of Materials Management and Buying Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07771341725
