Senior Commercial SRM Manager - Strategic & Outsourced Contracts

Health and high quality care for all, now and for future generations NHS England leads the National Health Service (NHS) in England. We set the priorities and direction of the NHS and encourage and inform the national debate to improve health and care. Our mission is to ensure good health and high quality care for all, now and for future generations. Our vision is that everyone has greater control of their health and their wellbeing, supported to live longer, healthier lives by high quality health and care services that are compassionate, inclusive and constantly-improving. Our purpose is to create the culture and conditions for health and care services and staff to deliver the highest standard of care and ensure that valuable public resources are used effectively to get the best outcomes for individuals, communities and society for now and for future generations. Our values are enshrined in the NHS Constitution underpin all that we do: Respect and dignityCommitment to the quality of careCompassionImproving livesWorking together for patientsEveryone counts NHS England is creating a new Commercial and Procurement department with the aims of ensuring the non-clinical procurement function and processes within the organisation are fit for purpose; and for developing and implementing effective strategies and operational policies for promoting innovation in procurement in an organisation that shares out more than GBP100 billion in funds across England. Innovation is critical to enabling NHS England to achieve the ambitions set out in its mandate, to ramp up the pace and scale of change, and deliver better outcomes for patients in England. The role Reporting into the Programmes Systems and Data Lead and leading a team of SRM Managers, you will manage the delivery of an effective strategic SRM service across the organisation. Your responsibilities will include: Managing the provision of a centre of excellence to support the business in delivery of effective Contract Management;Building and developing strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation;Supporting the Commercial Team in the application and implementation of SRM / CM processes reinforced by the Bravo system;Driving reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence;Managing the continued enhancement and improvement of the Contract management / SRM toolkit to allow the appropriate level of SRM, and delivering the segmentation of supplier and contract spend. The person To succeed, you will be ideally MCIPS qualified with significant experience, and a proven track record in managing the implementation of effective contract management and SRM strategies within a large, complex organisation. You will have excellent knowledge of leading practice supplier relationship management (SRM) principles, processes and practices including robust and thorough SRM implementation and have helped develop effective contract management and SRM programmes in a multi-stakeholder environment. For all roles, candidates must be resilient, tenacious and excited by the scale of transformation to which you and your team will contribute. Due to the scale of campaign, this is an ongoing process. However, we encourage applications to be made as quickly as possible. For an informal conversation regarding the campaign or any positions, please contact Vicky Power or Mairead Cremins at Allen Lane. Applications must be made in the form of a cover letter of no more than 2 sides, and a CV. Please include remuneration details. NHS England values and respects the diversity of its employees, and aims to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including an invitation to the first stage of the selection process and consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.