Strategic Corporate Procurement Manager

Main area: Procurement

Grade Band: 8a

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Hybrid pattern of both office and home working)

Job ref: 190-0095-DIR

Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Northern General Hospital

Town: Sheffield

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 13/04/2025 23:59

Interview date: 23/04/2025

Strategic Corporate Procurement Manager

Band 8a

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems.

Job overview

To lead commercial strategy development in corporate areas of non-pay spend including HR, Estates, Workforce, Legal, and other corporate project areas. Manage the team responsible for delivery of the strategy to ensure successful delivery. To take responsibility for negotiating high-value tenders and contracts for goods and services, achieving the most advantageous outcomes for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Sheffield Children’s Hospital Trusts.

To lead on national and regional South Yorkshire wide procurement initiatives in relation to IT and HR. To operate effective information systems to ensure accessibility of data that adds value to decision making. To achieve efficiency targets in line with the Trust's formal Cost Improvement Plans. To take responsibility for the management of senior supplier relationships and contracts and building collaborative relationships to deliver positive outcomes for the Trust. To take responsibility for managing commercial risk in the areas of responsibility. To deputise for the Head of Corporate Procurement.

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the development and implementation of Corporate Procurement strategies and business plans. Responsible for management of the Corporate team. To lead on or oversee corporate collaborative projects including across the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS). Perform analysis of commercial and procurement options for the corporate categories. Accountable for the provision of guidance and support in preparation of commercial agreements. Undertakes contract reviews, assessing and analysing supplier performance and management information data against contractual obligations.

Develop supplier relationships; undertaking visits to supplier sites and liaise with senior purchasing staff within other NHS Trusts, Consortiums, and NHS Supply Chain. To ensure Standing Financial Instructions and Standing Orders, UK Procurement Regulations, and other statutory and regulatory requirements are followed. Conduct formal high-value tenders in line with UK legislation. Undertake product and equipment evaluations/trials and site visits as necessary. Conduct detailed evaluation of tender returns, using appropriate financial assessment and purchasing and supply criteria.

Ensure products and suppliers meet required standards according to English and UK law. Ensure that procedures are carried out in a timely manner in accordance with the needs of the organisation. Prepare prompt responses to F.O.I. requests. Prepare and update tender reports and record/report savings.

Working for our organisation

STH Procurement and Logistics team provide a procurement service to the 5 hospital sites in Sheffield including Northern General, Hallamshire, Jessops, Weston Park, and Charles Clifford. We also provide a full Procurement service to Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust.

We are currently hybrid working with a minimum of 1 day per week office attendance required at our offices at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, though it is highly likely that you will want to attend site more than this at the start of your role whilst you become embedded.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STH) is one of the UK’s biggest providers of integrated hospital and community-based healthcare, providing a comprehensive range of local and tertiary services to the residents of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Mid Yorkshire, and North Derbyshire and also some highly specialist services to all parts of England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience
• Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Diploma (MCIPS), or degree in business-related subject
• MBA or MSC in Procurement / Supply Chain or equivalent level of experience

Experience

• Extensive direct involvement in Procurement of Corporate Services
• Deep experience of managing complex corporate tenders and commercial arrangements
• Experience of influencing decisions and building highly effective relationships
• Experience of market engagement and developing category strategies
• Experience of leading a team working in a hybrid environment to deliver results.

Skills

• Basic management/supervision training
• Commercial Negotiation training
• Category strategy development skills
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• Excellent communications skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and negotiate where necessary
• Ability to prioritise a wide range of competing priorities of own workload and that of the team.
• Knowledge of Contract Law
• Knowledge of best practice procurement for Corporate products and services in a public sector environment.
• Project Management training

Personal Qualities

• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to command the respect and engagement of senior supply side representatives.
• Commercially innovative and creative within the boundaries of good practice and the law.
• Resilient: adaptable to change
• Demonstrable leadership qualities