Senior Procurement Partner inChesterfield inChesterfield PUBLISHED
WED 6 NOV 2024
Impactful Role, As a Senior Procurement Partner, you'll play a crucial role in delivering high-quality and value-for-money procurement services for healthcare, directly impacting patient care and hospital operations.
Professional Growth, The position offers the opportunity to work closely with senior staff and stakeholders, enhancing your leadership and strategic management skills within a public sector context.
Collaborative Environment, You will work as part of a supportive team within Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services, fostering strong relationships and collaborative efforts to achieve common goals.
Innovation in Procurement, The role encourages the development of innovative procurement projects and solutions, allowing you to leverage creativity and strategic thinking in optimizing purchasing processes.
Cost Reduction Focus, You'll have the opportunity to influence and implement cost improvement programs, which not only benefits the trust financially but also enhances your experience in financial management and operational efficiency.
Client Interaction, The position involves engaging with various stakeholders and clients, providing an excellent platform to enhance customer service skills and build a strong professional network.
Work-Life Balance, Working in the NHS offers a supportive environment and potentially favorable working hours that can promote a healthy work-life balance.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Procurement Partner to join the Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd team. The role involves delivering high-quality, value-for-money procurement services, primarily within the public sector. Candidates should have substantial procurement experience, strong teamwork abilities, and excellent customer service skills. The Senior Procurement Partner will be responsible for ensuring the acquisition of goods at optimal prices, analyzing procurement data, managing contracts, enhancing supplier performance, and implementing electronic catalogues to improve client services.
Key responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders to influence procurement choices, prioritizing change for cost reduction, and enhancing service quality and efficiency. The role also involves managing ongoing cost improvement programs that are tracked and reported transparently. Applicants should note that the organisation does not currently offer a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Key responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders to influence procurement choices, prioritizing change for cost reduction, and enhancing service quality and efficiency. The role also involves managing ongoing cost improvement programs that are tracked and reported transparently. Applicants should note that the organisation does not currently offer a Certificate of Sponsorship.
We are looking for a Senior Procurement Partner to join the Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd team to deliver high quality value for money procurement services on behalf of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and external clients. You will need to demonstrate strong team working skills; have extensive experience of working in a Procurement environment, ideally in the Public Sector, and be able to demonstrate excellent customer service skills.
This post will play a key role in ensuring the procurement of the right goods at the right price delivered to the right place at the right time. This post will support senior staff to analyse and evaluate procurement data; tender and award contracts in line with local policies and relevant legislation; improve supplier performance, implement specific electronic catalogues, and continuously improve the service for clients.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
- The primary aspect of the role is to represent the purchasing function as a progressive, proactive, responsive and innovative Procurement partner in order to generate, manage and deliver innovative procurement projects and solutions
- Work closely with client stakeholders to influence choice; prioritise change and to deliver savings, process improvements and product standardisation to drive costs down and to drive quality, efficiency and service excellence up.
- To drive and deliver in conjunction with client stakeholders and teams, the Procurement approach to ongoing cost improvement programs on a forward plan basis which is robustly and transparently tracked and transacted.
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1. Can you describe your experience working in procurement, particularly within the public sector? What unique challenges have you encountered?
2. What specific procurement processes or systems have you implemented in your previous roles that you believe could benefit Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust?
3. How do you approach building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders in a procurement context?
4. Can you provide an example of a successful collaboration with a client stakeholder that resulted in tangible benefits for your previous organisation?
5. How do you ensure excellent customer service within the procurement function? Can you give an example where you went above and beyond to meet a client's needs?
1. Can you describe your experience working in procurement, particularly within the public sector? What unique challenges have you encountered?
2. What specific procurement processes or systems have you implemented in your previous roles that you believe could benefit Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust?
3. How do you approach building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders in a procurement context?
4. Can you provide an example of a successful collaboration with a client stakeholder that resulted in tangible benefits for your previous organisation?
5. How do you ensure excellent customer service within the procurement function? Can you give an example where you went above and beyond to meet a client's needs?
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