Buying Team Manager

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 Buying Team Manager will manage a team to ensure the effective purchasing of all sourcing that NWL PS governance and strategy determines are not subject a full tender requirement, delivering excellent customer service, best value and compliance with NWLPS governance. The Buying Team Manager shall 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 shall ensure that the areas for which they are responsible achieve or exceed the Service Level Agreement KPIs and internal NWLPS performance metrics.

Main duties of the job

Work 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 NWLPS governance.

Responsible for ensuring that the team operate in accordance with NWLPS 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 NWLPS performance improvement metric targets

Responsible for providing and receiving highly complex information when dealing with a range of issues from both internal and external stakeholders

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**