Procurement Manager

Job overview

Do you want to make a difference and join an award-winning procurement team? Do you want to work in a fast moving, dynamic, results driven department focused on building strong working relationships with its stakeholders?  Do you want to share in the pride associated with working for the NHS? We are looking to recruit a Procurement Manager to join our our Clinical Sourcing Team to provide a customer centric service to drive the sourcing of value for money products and services to support the delivery of high quality clinical care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

The clinical sourcing role will be to work within the clinical procurement team sourcing the clinical goods and services.

The procurement manager in this role  will be required to maintain a personal knowledge base, which reflects current research and development, and disseminate information, where appropriate. The post holder will develop and maintain relationships with clinical colleagues to ensure that patient safety is ensured and risks are minimised through best practice and by the procurement of products that are evidenced based. Through the development of these relationships the procurement manager will liaise with decision makers and end-users to help identify new schemes in pursuit of cost reduction objectives.

The non clinical role will cover Informatics and Corporate Services Category - from sourcing through to contract management.

The successful candidates will have the flexibility to be based at either in Royal United Hospitals in Bath, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust or Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.