Job summary
- Main area
- Procurement
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months from start date)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-CORP-7445218
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Sourcing Manager - IT
Band 7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
NWL Procurement Services ("NWL PS") is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all members ("NWL Members").
The Sourcing Manager executes sourcing activities for NWL Procurement Services ("NWL PS") to provide excellent customer service, best value and compliance with NWL PS governance. The Sourcing Manager shall work in accordance with direction from the Head of Sourcing to ensure that sourcing is a value-adding activity through the development and execution of excellent Sourcing Plans for each project.
The Sourcing Manager shall ensure that the areas for which they are responsible achieve or exceed the Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWL PS performance metrics.
Main duties of the job
Work in accordance with the direction of the Head of Sourcing to ensure that sourcing is a value-adding activity.
Develop and deliver individual sourcing plans to best address the challenges set out by Category Management, delivering excellent customer service, best value for money and compliance with NWL PS governance.
Support achievement of NWL PS Delivery Board approval of all project gateways, including the Procurement Outcome Report.
Provide effective handover of sourcing projects to the Manage & Enable function.
Proactively work to achieve Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWL PS performance improvement metric targets.
Responsible for input into procurement project delivery, informing on potential sourcing approaches, ensuring that the project reflects appropriate potential sourcing approaches.
Responsible for providing and receiving highly complex information when dealing with a range of issues from both internal and external stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Professional operational service delivery and business management knowledge to degree equivalent plus further management experience or training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
- Significant experience managing and leading projects
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- MCIPS Qualified or working towards Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or other appropriate professional institute or relevant experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good level of experience of sourcing activity in a relevant field
- Significant procurement or commercial experience in the Public sector
- Significant experience of stakeholder management in a customer and results focused environment
- Successful negotiation and implementation of purchasing agreements
- Performance management in a multi-site environment
- Evidence of providing and receiving complex information
- Experience in being persuasive and motivational, with the ability to negotiate and train others
- Experience in handling complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
- Evidence of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities; and formulating, adjusting plans or strategies
- Experience in using software or systems to develop performance, statistical or management reports
Desirable criteria
- Experience in sourcing or procurement in non-clinical categories including but not limited to facilities management, IT and professional services
- Experience of working within the NHS and an understanding of current issues
- Previous experience of working as a Procurement Manager
- supporting discrete policy or service development
- Experience of line management of a single function or department
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Negotiation: A skilled negotiator with a broad range of skill sets
- Analysis: Skilled in being able to conduct analysis on complex data sets to provide concise insights
- Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, demonstrating ability to engage with stakeholders at multi levels
- Change Management: Understands change management and process improvement with experience in supporting business process / organisational change
- Commercial reasoning
- Influencing
- Relationship management
- Project management
- Team working
- Communication
- Information systems
- Financial skills with the ability to monitor or contribute to the drawing up of department or service budgets or financial initiatives
- Ability to work on own initiative, operating within broad policy/procedures, with responsibility for specific area of service delivery
Desirable criteria
- Leading and Managing Others: Strong project leadership and management capabilities and experience, with capacity to manage multiple small and medium sized projects
- Change Management: Understands change management and process improvement with experience in supporting business process / organisational change
- Strategy Delivery: Experience of delivering and implementing category and sourcing plans, delivering strategies for various sub-categories
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Standard keyboard skills / Advanced keyboard skills used for manipulating large quantities of data and preparing complex analysis and reports
- Concentration required for checking documents, writing reports and analysing statistics, including dealing with interruptions
- Ability to impart unwelcome news to stakeholders
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jitendra Patel
- Job title
- Head of Sourcing - IT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07553 897749
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