Procurement Manager

Job overview

Procurement Manager, Permanent, Full Time 37.5 hours per week.

The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) is one of the largest ambulance services in the country providing 999 emergency response, non-emergency patient transport services, 111 services and emergency planning and resilience for seven million people across 5400 square miles.

The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust is looking to recruit a Procurement Manager to join the existing procurement team; we are looking to recruit a pro-active, self-motivated and ambitious individual to join our team.

Main duties of the job

You will act as a lead expert in all aspects of procurement and supply, providing professional advice to internal and external customers to the Trust. You will play a key role in the effective delivery of a portfolio of projects across a wide range of categories both clinical and non-clinical, including Find a Tender requirements and following best practice tools and techniques to achieve contract compliance, cost reductions and savings whilst ensuring continuous improvement in quality.

You should be CIPS qualified or working towards the qualification, will have at least 3 years procurement experience, have a good understanding of current procurement guidance and legislation (including Public Procurement Regulations).

A positive, proactive and committed approach is essential, together with the ability to analyse, innovate, motivate and manage a busy and changing workload against tight deadlines.

You should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to deliver high quality documentation. It is expected that you will have effective team leadership skills and will be a natural team player as the role will may require some supervision of operational procurement staff.

You must have strong IT skills including MS Office and e-Procurement systems particularly as we look to continually optimise e-procurement systems across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role requires working from Ladybridge Hall, Bolton and Home location with flexibility to meet the demands of the role and department.  This policy is flexible and will be discussed in detail at interview stage.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more information, for an informal chat regarding the position, contact Linda Sutcliffe on 01204 498400 or 07812304703.

“NWAS is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all underrepresented groups to ensure our workforces reflects the diversity of the communities we serve”

The key dates for the stages of recruitment are:

Advert closes – 25 November 2024

Situational Judgement Tool issued w/c 2 December 2024

Simulation Assessment Centre (if required) w/c 16 December 2024

Professional Discussion w/c 16 December 2024