Buying Team Manager

NHS

  • West London
  • £64,156-71,148 per year
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 5 days ago
North West London Procurement Services (NWL PS) is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all of its members.The Buying Team Manager will manage a team to ensure the effective purchasing of all sourcing activities that the NWL PS strategy determines are not subject a full tender requirement, delivering excellent customer service, best value and compliance with NWLPS governance. The Buying Team Manager will work in accordance with direction from the Director of Materials Management & Buying to ensure that existing contracts are leveraged where possible, and that future requirements are defined to minimise the level of sourcing activity not subject to a full tender requirement.The Buying Team Manager will ensure that the areas for which they are responsible achieve or exceed the Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWLPS performance metrics on a consistent basis.Main duties of the jobWork in accordance with the direction of the Director of Materials Management & Buying to ensure that sourcing is a value-adding activity.Responsible for ensuring that opportunities to leverage existing contracts are proactively identified and implemented in accordance with NWL PS governance.Responsible for ensuring that the team operate in accordance with NWL PS governance and wider legislation, including implementing measures to identify disaggregation of requirements to avoid full tender.Proactively work to achieve Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWL PS performance improvement metric targetsResponsible for providing and receiving highly complex information when dealing with a range of issues from both internal and external stakeholdersProviding leadership and direction to the team supporting continuous improvement, development, and training to drive operational excellenceAbout usJust 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
  • 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-benefitsDetailsDate posted29 August 2025Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 8aSalary£64,156 to £71,148 a year Per Annum, inclusive of HCASContractFixed termDuration12 monthsWorking patternFull-timeReference number824-CORP-7369073-AJob locationsSt MarysLondonW2 1NYJob descriptionJob responsibilities**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.** Job descriptionJob responsibilities**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**Person SpecificationEducation/QualificationsEssential
  • Knowledge of procurement, acquired through degree or equivalent experience or training plus an element of management experience or training
  • CIPS qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
  • Evidence of CPD
ExperienceEssential
  • Good level of experience in transactional procurement
  • Good level of experience of stakeholder management in a customer and results focused environment
  • Experience in negotiation and implementation of purchasing agreements
  • Exposure to performance management principles in a multi-site environment
  • Evidence of line managing multiple direct reports
  • Experience in providing and receiving complex information
  • Experience in portraying sensitive or contentious information to large groups
  • Experience in analysing complex facts or situations, requiring interpretation, and comparison of a range of options
  • Track record in planning and organising a broad range of complex activities; with formulations and the flexibility to adjust plans, strategies or programmes
Desirable
  • Experience of working within the NHS and an understanding of current issues
  • Experienced in supervising support staff; training staff; managing team of staff and can provide training to stakeholders on own project to clinicians, management and staff at all levels
Skills and KnowledgeEssential
  • 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 positively engage with stakeholders at multi levels
  • Commercial reasoning
  • Influencing/Persuasive and Negotiation skills
  • Motivational
  • Relationship management, developing and maintaining positive relationships
  • Project management
  • Team working
  • Communication
  • Information systems and IT skills/keyboard skills
  • Financial skills - ability to carry out budget management duties, including administering and monitoring a project budget and/or being a budget holder for project(s)
  • Ability to provide advice and direction to service users (and team members) on most cost-effective service provider options and buying channels, taking into account full costs and quality implications
  • Ability to manage overtime, annual leave and use and payment of agency of bank workers
  • Ability to create and analyse reports, draw conclusions for actions and deliver improvements based on robust analysis of facts
  • Ability to understand and apply policy and apply reasonable judgement where required
  • Ability to provide recommendations to improve policy and implement new policy
Desirable
  • Programme and project management
  • Understanding of the EU Directives and Public Contract Regulations, standard terms and conditions of contracts and contract law
  • A working knowledge / understanding of the NHS and Acute Trusts
  • Finance knowledge
Person SpecificationEducation/QualificationsEssential
  • Knowledge of procurement, acquired through degree or equivalent experience or training plus an element of management experience or training
  • CIPS qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
  • Evidence of CPD
ExperienceEssential
  • Good level of experience in transactional procurement
  • Good level of experience of stakeholder management in a customer and results focused environment
  • Experience in negotiation and implementation of purchasing agreements
  • Exposure to performance management principles in a multi-site environment
  • Evidence of line managing multiple direct reports
  • Experience in providing and receiving complex information
  • Experience in portraying sensitive or contentious information to large groups
  • Experience in analysing complex facts or situations, requiring interpretation, and comparison of a range of options
  • Track record in planning and organising a broad range of complex activities; with formulations and the flexibility to adjust plans, strategies or programmes
Desirable
  • Experience of working within the NHS and an understanding of current issues
  • Experienced in supervising support staff; training staff; managing team of staff and can provide training to stakeholders on own project to clinicians, management and staff at all levels
Skills and KnowledgeEssential
  • 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 positively engage with stakeholders at multi levels
  • Commercial reasoning
  • Influencing/Persuasive and Negotiation skills
  • Motivational
  • Relationship management, developing and maintaining positive relationships
  • Project management
  • Team working
  • Communication
  • Information systems and IT skills/keyboard skills
  • Financial skills - ability to carry out budget management duties, including administering and monitoring a project budget and/or being a budget holder for project(s)
  • Ability to provide advice and direction to service users (and team members) on most cost-effective service provider options and buying channels, taking into account full costs and quality implications
  • Ability to manage overtime, annual leave and use and payment of agency of bank workers
  • Ability to create and analyse reports, draw conclusions for actions and deliver improvements based on robust analysis of facts
  • Ability to understand and apply policy and apply reasonable judgement where required
  • Ability to provide recommendations to improve policy and implement new policy
Desirable
  • Programme and project management
  • Understanding of the EU Directives and Public Contract Regulations, standard terms and conditions of contracts and contract law
  • A working knowledge / understanding of the NHS and Acute Trusts
  • Finance knowledge

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