Procurement Manager || Deputy Harbour Master || Senior Solutions Architect By JaxFul Jobs.

  Procurement Manager || Deputy Harbour Master || Senior Solutions Architect By JaxFul Jobs.

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Job No 1 ( Procurement Manager )

Are you a Procurement Specialist with a public sector background?

Working within the Healthcare Improvement Solutions team, other key internal stakeholders and crucially our clients to ensure procurement activities are optimised and delivered in a professional, safe, and efficient manner.

We are seeking exceptional highly motivated individuals with category experience, who are flexible and who can significantly contribute to the positive reputation of our business. The role is likely to focus on non-clinical categories in the Estates and Facilities Management, Digital and IT and Business Services areas. They will be responsible for developing and delivering procurement strategies in complex supply markets working with and on behalf of our customers.

This role can be based anywhere. The successful candidates must be able to commute to Salford for monthly collaborative meetings.

What you’ll be doing:

•  Leading Procurement processes (legal process, scoping, briefing, tendering, selection, evaluation, contract negotiation and management of suppliers)

•  Providing high quality customer focused procurement and service design advice to external customers whilst supporting the team in delivery of projects -acting as both a leader and a supporter.

•  Creating and maintaining positive, collaborative and supportive professional relationships with internal stakeholders and external customers, as well as actively generating and building relationships with new customers.

•  Being regarded as a trusted advisor to the customer’s senior team as well as an expert in the NHS and its strategic goals and policy drivers.

•  Acting as a senior point of advice for internal staff in terms of the commercial and assignment management aspects of project delivery.

•  Actively generating opportunities for future work through the ongoing development of professional networks of contacts across the NHS and wider public sector.

•  Horizon scanning in order to identify development and new opportunities for new and existing customers.

What you’ll bring:

•  Professional Qualification (or working towards) in Procurement (such as MCIPS) or related discipline (Contract Management, Supply Chain, Funding etc).

•  Experience of working in procurement, commissioning, bid writing or contract management team within the Public Sector.

•  Knowledge and skill in the Procurement process, (scoping, briefing, tendering, selection, contract negotiation, including service level agreements, and management of suppliers).

•  Market and product knowledge in some commodities as well as some knowledge and experience in conducting market research.

•  Demonstrable analytic skills (analysis of information, interpreting and presenting findings) and be able too report and provide evidence to the procurement team of savings and benefits delivered through the effective management of the vendor base.

•  Has a strong persuasion capability and is an active and contributing team member and the ability to manage conflicting situations.

•  Ability to communicate clearly, both written and verbally, with peers and management.

•  Demonstrable willingness to travel as regularity of attendance will be required across all sites.

It would be great if you had:

➊   General commercial awareness.

➋  Ability to communicate in English on a familiar subject.

➌  Knowledge of EU/UK Procurement Policies, Procedures, and Processes as well as Procurement ERP systems, eSourcing tools, and MS Office.

➍  Experience working closely with multiple Government organizations and external third-party suppliers.

➎  Awareness of procurement compliance to instruct wider teams/clients.

➏   If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Anywhere (UK) Must be able to commute to Salford for monthly collaborative meetings

Security Clearance Level: BPS

Internal Recruiter: Kayleigh

Salary: Up to £40,000 Salary offered will be in line with experience and development needs

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about the Sector/Company?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organization. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion-focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

Job No 2 ( Deputy Harbour Master (Operations) 

Service Enterprise and Sustainable Regeneration

Head of Service Area Marine Services, Transportation and Harbour Master

Service Manager Area Harbour Operations

Job Title Deputy Harbour Master (Operations)

Location Harbour Authority Building, Scapa

Reporting To Head of Service

Grade G13

Job Evaluation A5358

Competency Band C2

Job Overview

Service Managers are high-value, organizational leaders at the forefront of core service delivery, professional standards, and improvement. Service Managers will be subject matter experts in their professional discipline and engage with the extended CMT on performance, key service developments, opportunities for improvement and support a high-performance culture.

Service Managers will collaborate with each other and the wider leadership team to ensure the development of integrated, progressive service models that minimise waste and maximise impact, exploit the potential of partnership and provide best value for customers/service users.

Service Managers will be responsible for designing services, informed by customer insight, and deploying available resources to deliver outstanding customer service to communities across Orkney consistent within the Councils strategic priorities and ambitions.

Service Managers will drive the continuous improvement of services and enhancing service performance through the design and deployment of new systems of work, processes, developing skills and new technologies.

Service Managers will be a confident in their own ability and ambitious to find the best solution and put customers/service users first with every interaction, every task, every transaction, every time.

Service Managers will enable staff to deliver for customers/service users by building capacity, capability, and confidence of the team to deliver outstanding services that are valued by those customers/service users.

Service Managers are people managers and will create an environment where staff are highly engaged and energised and so able to give their best; supporting staff to appreciate their personal contribution to the team and wider organisational performance enabling every individual respond to the changing demands of their role as customer needs and service models evolve.

Service Managers will encourage a work culture of continuous learning, information sharing, and professional development

Job No 3 ( Senior Solutions Architect )

Do you have a strong application architecture background, with experience in Application and or Infrastructure engineering before moving into Architecture? This could be the role for you!

As our Senior Solutions Architect will you join the team that defines the solutions architecture for medium to large scale, complex, medium risk or specialised assignments or pre-sales assignments that may lead to major lead to major downstream revenue opportunities. In addition, the Senior Solutions Architect will also define the solutions architecture for small to medium scale, complex, low to medium risk assignments or pre-sales assignments

We welcome applications from candidates across the UK as the majority of the time you'll be able to work from home, with occasional travel to the Hemel Hempstead office and client sites.

What you will be doing:

•  Defining scope and deliverables for assignments with ‘client’ (may be internal or external) for the definition and execution of solutions architectures to integrate all of a client’s requirements

•  Delivering assignments in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures

•  Ensuring effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of subcontractors and partners)Completing assignment reviews with ‘clients’ at the end of each and every assignment (or six monthly for long term assignments

•  Tracking market trends and competitor activities in ‘specialist areas’ and ensure this data is utilised for the ongoing service development

•  Identify and manage risk in his/her business activities and taking responsibility for reporting risks in a timely, open and appropriate manner

What you will bring:

•  A strong application architecture background.

•  Experience with application/system integration and application programming interfaces (APIs) including RESTful and SOAP.

•  Experience of secure cloud solutions covering IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

•  Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be particularly advantageous.

•   Experience in overseeing the implementation of end-to-end business processes across multiple platforms, including user interactions with secure on-line portals link to back-office systems.

•  Proven ability to establish business and technical direction, delivering architecture for clients aligned to business requirements and technology strategy.

•  Experience working with stakeholders and other IT colleagues to gather a thorough understanding of detailed functional and non-functional requirements and articulate the impact of any proposed change on the business systems, IT software and infrastructure landscapes.

•  Ability to design and build solutions that deliver the desired business objectives.

•  Ability to ensure that robust solution design documentation is produced that will effectively support successful solution build, test and support

•  Skilled in presenting technical issues and IT solution strategies to business stakeholders and other IT professionals enabling informed decisions to be made.

Would be great if you had:

•  Knowledge or certification in one or more IT architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF)

•  Experience in creating IT solution documentation/artifacts using standard industry best practice frameworks and methodology (TOGAF, ArchiMate) that are mapped to the business requirements, stories and benefits.

•  Experience of managing budgets and being commercially aware.

•  Experience of working across pre-sales, sales, finance, senior management and other key business areas.

•  If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

•  Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support many ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Employment type: Full-time, permanent

Location: UK anywhere but travel to Hemel Hempstead office as & when required

Security Clearance Level: You must be eligible and willing to undergo the SC Clearance

Internal Recruiter: Carolyne 

Salary: DOE

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund which is 3% of base salary

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.