Client: 

Castlefield Recruitment are currently working in partnership with East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub on an exciting opportunity for an experienced procurement professional to join their procurement team.   

East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub (EOECPH) formed in 2007, is hosted by West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Our purpose is to provide creative procurement solutions, strategic purchasing support and specialist knowledge to the member NHS trusts and publicly funded bodies who are our customers.   

This role comes at an exciting time in their development and offers the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of safe and cost-effective healthcare services.  

EOECPH operate a hybrid working policy, with current office attendance required once a week. Travel within the East of England region is required along with occasional travel to other areas.  

Role: 

The Procurement Specialist role is an exciting opportunity to join an accomplished and established team at EOECPH. The successful candidate will lead specific sourcing programmes across the Estates and Digital Category area.  

The successful candidate will use their specialist procurement knowledge to develop and deliver innovative services and frameworks for Estates and Digital areas, identifying opportunities for collaborative procurement.  

The successful candidate will possess excellent communication skills, be analytical with strong project and procurement management experience, have in-depth knowledge of procurement legislation and the entire procurement life-cycle and be able to manage large and complex stakeholder groups.   

Duties will include; 

• Manage high value strategic sourcing projects which impact on stakeholder organisations service delivery and beyond 
• Proactively lead and manage programmes and develop collaborative relationship management regimes with NHS suppliers, ensuring maximum return on investment  
• Establish the future procurement requirements of stakeholder organisations and produces strategies and solutions to these 
• Provide advice and expertise in all aspects of procurement activity to stakeholder organisations. This advice and expertise can be in highly complex areas and involve detailed knowledge of areas such as UK Procurement Legislation 
• Gather and analyse comprehensive data to support portfolio and category analysis, produce reports and identify and manage risk throughout the project and procurement process  

Person: 

The successful Procurement Specialist: 

• Open to individuals from either a Public or Private sector background 
• Experience of procurement systems, ideally Atamis
• Ability and evidence of running significant and complex tendering processes  
• Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills, including knowledge of the market

Please note that direct approaches and speculative CV's will be directed to Castlefield Recruitment to be included in the recruitment process. 

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EOECPH benefits are:

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (29 days after 5 years’ service, 33 days after 10 years’ service)
• NHS Discount Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes
• Flexible Working Options
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Sick Pay
• Health and Wellbeing Support