To Support the Senior Transactional Procurement Manager to develop and maintain a coordinated approach towards procurement and contract management for Arden and GEM CSU and 21 CCGs, seeking value for money, relationship and performance management of suppliers and offering advice on all of the CSU/CCG transactional purchasing and contract activity.

• Senior Transactional Procurement Manager (8a)
• Transactional Procurement Manager (6)
• Senior Buyer (5) - This post
• Buyer (4)
• Procurement officer (3)

Setup and management of supplier contracts utilizing the appropriate terms and conditions of contracts and appropriate schedules.

Supplier Management including the establishment and monitoring of Key performance indicators to manage performance and continuous performance improvements

Supplier management including, the timely achievement of internal Key Performance indicators including the management of savings targets, contractual spend targets and individual customer specific targets.

Play an active role in driving customer service including assisting the development of effective communication with CCG customers to ensure effective management of CCG spend including agreement of annual workplans, spend targets and performance improvements.

Management of a range of corporate contracts including but not limited to IT, Telecoms, Travel, FM, Agency, Capital.

Management of Contracts Database including details of all contracts, contractual documentation and linking into the annual rolling workplan.

Internal management of the Oracle e-procurement system including supplier rationalisation and spend categorisation and managing the procurement relationship with NHS Shared Business Services.

To keep abreast of new legislation, government policy, best practice and relevant external factors to procurement and contracting activity.

Provide procurement advice to internal stakeholder and customers.

Key Working Relationships

Develop and Maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders

Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information with the aim of providing information and analytical advice to the teams.

Work with members of the team to develop and implement project data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data

Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to Project teams, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff.

Analytical/Judgemental

Undertake complex and detailed information analysis of spend data and specific projects/reports requiring high levels of concentration

Update, maintain, organise, gather and analyse information to predict/meet future organisational and team needs by identifying best professional practice.

Monitor and tracking risks and issues tracking to ensure a proactive resolution and

escalation processes

Contribute to the information management of performance, taking a lead for specific Projects

Provide coordination of and participate in relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested

Ensure that data collected is analysed, reported by the team as appropriate and monitor the processing of data and information

Carries out procurement for highly detailed, high value contracts that require analysis comparison assessment.

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