Procurement Improvement and Compliance Manager

The post will be primarily based at the Archipelago offices, conveniently located approximately 10 minutes' walk from Frimley Park Hospital. This is a cross-site role, supporting services across all three Trust sites, with Archipelago as the main base.

The role includes direct line management responsibilities and offers the opportunity to work closely with a wide range of stakeholders. The successful candidate will build strong professional relationships both within the Trust and with external partners, playing an important role in supporting effective operational and commercial collaboration.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys collaborative working, stakeholder engagement, and operating across organisational boundaries within a dynamic healthcare environment., + The Procurement Improvement and Compliance Manager will be the departmental lead for ensuring compliance with existing processes, driving out inefficiencies and identifying opportunities for improvement, the post holder will report to the Transactional Procurement Manager and line manage 3 buying roles.

+ The post holder will provide leadership for developing and implementing strategies and policies and will be the Internal marketing and champion for the Procurement Department, ensuring compliance with the Procurement Policy and Trust SFIs across the organisational on including correct and appropriate use of the Trust's Procurement systems and Trust purchasing/credit card.

+ The post holder will foster highly professional and responsive service providing high quality advice and support to stakeholders on a range of regulatory compliance managers and advice on and work with senior management team to devise processes aimed at continuously improving performance which bring added value to the benefit of the department and the Trust.

+ The post holder will support the department to obtain and maintain Level 2 Standards of Procurement and will assist with colla ng, validating and reporting on Departmental KPI's ensuring agreed Procurement processes adopted and monitored across the organisation on with evidence of high-level compliance.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and proactive professional to join our team in a Band 6 permanent, full-time role., This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the contract.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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