Job vacancy: Procurement Business Partner – RLH, Barts Health NHS Trust, London

Job summary

Main area

Strategic Sourcing

Grade

Band 8b

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

Job ref

259-7097913GSS-A

Employer: Barts Health NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: 20 Churchill Place
Town: London
Salary: £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/06/2025 23:59

Procurement Business Partner – RLH

Band 8b

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Procurement Business Partner - RLH will directly influence strategic and business decision making by ensuring the provision of high quality information and analysis and professional and commercial support to Procurement service customers. Supported by others within the Procurement team, the post holder will be required to promote a culture of continuous improvement within the department, actively managing a portfolio of customer relationships and leading and developing a specific strategic sourcing programme for site/category spend. The role will lead large-scale tenders.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a business discipline

Desirable criteria

Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply by examination or currently intending and/or working towards future membership

Experience

Essential criteria

Previous contract management experience within a complex organisation.
Demonstrable staff management experience
Demonstrable experience in areas of: project management, negotiation, cost and price management, change control, public procurement.
Proven track record of supporting innovation with an ability to support the implementation and management of change.
Excellent negotiation skills and managing supplier relationships
An understanding of accounting practices and principles.

Desirable criteria

Understanding of logistics, inventory control and supply chain management.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Thorough knowledge of computerised procurement systems particularly the use of Access and Excel databases.
Knowledge of Bribery Act and GDPR.
Fully conversant with NHS Terms and Conditions of contract and a sound understanding of contract law.

Skills

Essential criteria

Strong organisational / motivational management skills.
Good interpersonal skills and the ability to forge effective professional relationships.
Business acumen and the ability to influence and manage commercial opportunities.
The ability to undertake analytical reviews of data to drive procurement change.
Excellent written skills.
The ability to multitask re assessing priorities to ensure projects are managed and completed to timescales.

Communication

Essential criteria

Ability to clearly communicate finance and non-finance issues.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with all colleagues both clinical and non-clinical.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.