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Job summary

Main area
Procurement
Grade
Grade G
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri (usually 9am - 5pm))
Job ref
166-DSFS-6896150
Employer
Derbyshire Support Facilities Services
Employer type
NHS
Site
DSFS - Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Town
Chesterfield
Salary
£52,286 - £58,000 Pro Rata Per Annum depending on experience
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/01/2025 11:00
Interview date
06/02/2025

Employer heading

Derbyshire Support Facilities Services logo

Senior Procurement Partner

Grade G

Job overview

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

Interview Date TBC

Main duties of the job

  • 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.

Working for our organisation

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just under 1000 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together. 

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For details of this exciting role, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • • Full professional membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supplies (by qualification), (or equivalent demonstrable experience)
Desirable criteria
  • Change Management qualification
  • Project management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable experience in non-clinical procurement (such as Estates, IT and Facilities)
  • Proven experience at senior level in procurement and materials management involving recent direct managerial responsibility for staff.
  • Proven ability in the provision of a cost effective customer focused service, targeted at achieving cost reduction
  • Working knowledge of procurement elements of current P2P systems
  • NHS Purchasing experience
  • Demonstrable experience in public sector procurement
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of utilising integrated P2P system

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Highly developed communication skills to operate at all staff and management levels, internally and externally
  • Robust negotiating and contracting skills
  • Sound knowledge of legal and statutory requirements in relation to procurement
  • Developed approach to engaging and influencing clinical leaders
  • Effective planning and organisational skills
  • Highly developed analytical skills
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of procurement services in a subsidiary company environment to a parent organisation

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Effective motivational skills within a changing environment
  • Self-motivated
  • Ability to motivate others
  • Ability to work to agreed objectives and achieve these within pre-determined deadlines

Demonstrates Trust Values

Essential criteria
  • Responsive – Reliable - Resourceful - Respectful
  • Compassion, Achievement, Relationships, Environment

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Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Katrina Horton
Job title
Deputy Head of Procurement
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01246 513564
Additional information

Stephen Wilson, Head of Procurement

01246 516629

[email protected]

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