Associate Director of Procurement – Collaboration

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an ambitious, strategic and collaborative Associate Director of Procurement Collaboration to help shape and deliver the future of procurement across West Yorkshire. Working alongside the Director of Commercial & Procurement, you will play a pivotal leadership role in aligning procurement functions across multiple NHS Trusts, establishing the West Yorkshire Provider Procurement Collaborative (WYPPC) as a sectorleading collaborative, and delivering major efficiencies, savings and service improvements in an increasingly challenging financial environment. You will lead complex regional sourcing strategies covering nonpay spend in excess of £1bn per annum, including capital programmes, major service contracts and innovative commercial solutions. This role combines strategic leadership, change management, commercial expertise and systemwide collaboration, and includes deputising for the Director of Commercial & Procurement where required.

Main duties of the job

You will be a senior procurement professional with substantial NHS experience, a proven track record of leading complex programmes, and the credibility to influence at a collaborative level. You will bring: Strong leadership and peoplemanagement capability Experience of delivering largescale savings and transformation across multiple organisations Exceptional negotiation, communication and stakeholdermanagement skills

Job responsibilities

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.