Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the job description including primary duties and areas of responsibility , please refer to the attached Job Description.

Full details of both the Essential and Desirable criteria needed for the role are contained in the attached Person Specification.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• In depth understanding of procurement in large complex organisations including the full supply chain aspects of demand management, sourcing and purchasing,
• Significant Experience of strategic sourcing, end to end tendering and contracting of complex procurement processes
• Significant Experience of interpreting and applying the Public Procurement Legislation.
• Experience of NHS Procurement with demonstrable achievements of high value and complex programmes
• Previous experience of staff management
• Experience in working in a health service environment
• In-depth experience of strategic procurement across categories such as the Estates and Facilities, Clinical, Non-Clinical, Capital and Data/Systems Categories
• Understanding Purchase 2 Pay (P2P) and invoice processes
• Extensive knowledge of developing specifications, drafting contracts, carrying out tender exercises and managing contracts post award

Desirable

• Experience of material management and delivery and distribution
• Experience of delivering procurement under the Estates and Facilities category including Works

Skills

Essential

• Able to us own initiative in dealing with complex issues, and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines including multi-tasking.
• Flexible approach to work

Desirable

• Project Management Experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Office packages including, Excel, Word and Access
• Oracle Purchasing system / e-Procurement (e.g. Oracle), e-tendering (e.g. Atamis)
• Understand key and specialist elements of procurement / supply chain methodologies and associated UK and European law.
• Knowledge of the Health Sector and Public Sector Procurement, NHS procurement landscape
• Understanding of key finance concepts and models in the procurement and commercial contracting context

Desirable

• Medical product knowledge and understanding of the supply market dynamics

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline*
• Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Chain (CIPS) *
• Postgraduate Qualification: NVQ Level 7 *

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Procurement Office, Daisy Bank, Bradford Royal Infirmary

Duckworth Lane

Bradford

BD9 6RJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)