Senior Commercial Lead - Corporate Services

You will lead, manage, and be accountable for a Commercial Team with responsibility for approximately 100 supplier contracts within the corporate services category, including Estates, HR, Finance, Soft FM, and Hard FM. You will ensure that all resources are focused on delivering sustainable, quality, and innovative commercial solutions in compliance with legislation. As the leader of the corporate services commercial team, you will need to bring a vision, a passion for delivery, and strong people management skills. You will provide professional expertise to formulate, develop, and implement long-term strategic plans for the categories and contracts managed by the team. Additionally, you will actively engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and public sector bodies to support our commercial strategies and their effectiveness. You will continuously improve the commercial service delivered to stakeholders, enhance expertise, and build the capability and potential of the function. You will take a pivotal role in delivering significant cost improvements in a creative, innovative, and sustained manner to help us meet our financial objectives. Main duties of the job In this role you will support in the delivery of the planning & organisation, day to day operations, financial, quality targets and vision of the Commercial directorate within NHSBT .Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and supporting category strategies, market shaping, strategic sourcing, and procurement.
• Developing long-term strategic plans for the sourcing, procurement, and delivery of contracts.
• Developing and managing a portfolio of larger high-risk projects, typically with a high level of expenditure and/or complexity.
• Developing working relationships with key suppliers and ensuring excellent performance standards are achieved in line with contractual requirements and stakeholders' expectations.
• Line managing the team and developing a culture that encourages open communication and ensures that people are managed through effective teamwork, leadership, and motivation across the team and wider Commercial function.
• Managing operational multi-stranded budgets for products and services within their category group.
• Leading and supporting in the preparation of complex tender documents, inviting tender bids from suppliers, including the selection of suppliers following pre-qualification analysis of supplier information and pre-tender commercial discussions.
  
  Experience of Market Shaping, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Strategy, and Contract Management including negotiation of significant value contracts and/or significant risk contracts, and disputes at a senior level.
• Supply chain management and supplier relationship management experience.
• The ability to lead strategic planning and implementation processes.
• Time Management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Experience in using electronic sourcing and purchasing systems.
• Change management experience including awareness of impacts on Quality when implementing new contracts.
• Decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Leadership and management experience
• Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
Qualifications and Training
• Educated to Master's level or equivalent experience in a professional purchasing area.
• CIPS Professional Diploma Level 6 or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
  
  At NHS Blood and Transplant, we're incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.
It's an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.