Lead for Procurement
Job Description
Job summary
In line with NHS employment policies, priority will be given to suitably qualified internal candidates, followed by at risk applicants from the wider NHS, before consideration of external applicants.
We manage an annual budget of £4.9 billion to commission services which are safe, high quality and accessible for the 1.7 million people who live here. Commissioning means planning and funding health services based on the needs of local communities. We work with multiple services and organisations to improve health and care for local people.
This role will be within the team with responsibility for all procurements undertaken for the Integrated Care Board. The team predominantly procures service contracts under the Provider Selection Regime but also works within the remit of the Procurement Act 2023. The procurement projects are often complex and can take several months to complete. The ICB is looking for a team member who can hold a portfolio of procurements and lead the projects supported by a team of subject matter experts. The role will also be heavily involved with market development planning and implementation to support strategic commissioning.
The successful candidate will also be responsible for providing advice to colleagues across the ICB supporting the procurement team and the Deputy Director of Procurement and Market Management. Applicants are expected to have MCIPS and be able to demonstrate extensive experience of working with public sector procurement roles.
Main duties of the job
Specialist in Public Procurement Regulations/case law
Lead options appraisals, market engagement, tender design/evaluation
Handle bidder challenges and contractual disputes
Team leadership and scheduling
Ensure contingency/exit plans
Implement system-wide policies and supplier audits
Produce/present complex executive reports
About us
We manage an annual budget of £4.9billion to commission safe, highquality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.
We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.
Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joinedup care.
Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an olderthanaverage population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.
Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joinedup, patientcentred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to highquality services.
We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Person Specification
Equality & Diversity
Essential
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems in the area
Skills
Essential
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Interpreting national policy for implementation
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Financial and Physical Resources
Essential
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Experience
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- MCIPS (or equivalent professional membership)
- Substantial senior public sector procurement leadership delivering complex/high value procurements
- Expert knowledge of Public Procurement Regulations and procurement case law
- Proven negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification (e.g., MBA, LLM)
- Advanced training in procurement law, dispute resolution or commercial strategy
- Familiarity with NHS systems (Atamis, Power BI, Oracle).
Other
Essential
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Effective organizer, influencer and networker
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Completer/Finisher
- Team working skills
- Self-motivated
- Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
Address
Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
Endeavour House
8 Russell Road
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 2BX
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.norfolkandsuffolk.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
