Procurement Business Partner

Job summary

CHP is looking for a Procurement Business Partner who enjoys working with stakeholders, solving practical commercial problems and helping to shape a developing procurement service.

Main duties of the job Working within a centre-led procurement model, you will provide clear procurement and commercial advice, understand business requirements and deliver quotation, tender and framework-based procurement exercises that support effective decision-making and organisational priorities.

You will manage multiple procurement activities, support procurement and category strategies, maintain accurate records and contribute to continuous improvement across systems, processes, guidance and stakeholder-facing resources.

This includes supporting category activity for allocated spend areas, helping develop the procurement pipeline, using spend and market information, and keeping procurement guidance and intranet content clear, accessible and up to date.

This role is central to helping CHP make procurement decisions that are compliant, commercially sound and aligned to the needs of our stakeholders and communities. This is a hybrid role, with regular working from one of CHPs main buildings in Manchester, Birmingham or London, and national travel required as needed.

About us

At Community Health Partnerships (CHP), we're dedicated to improving health outcomes by creating the spaces where care happens. As a wholly owned company of the Department of Health and Social Care, we manage over 300 high-quality community health buildings across England.

We work in partnership with the NHS and local systems to deliver innovative, sustainable infrastructure solutions that support integrated care, reduce health inequalities, and enable better services closer to home.

Our mission is simple: enable better care through better spaces.

Job description

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responsibilities

For more information about this role and to submit an application, please visit: https://pfchp.jobs.people-first.com/jobs/details/recruitment%2Fjobdetails%2Ff11cacbc-ef68-4b90-8dbd-19fd7b8b7940. Any applications not received via this route will not be considered.

Person Specification

Experience Essential Producing management information, reports and performance data Maintaining and improving business processes Producing guidance documents, templates and procedural documentation Using Microsoft Office applications and procurement systems to analyse and present information Delivering multiple end to end procurement exercises simultaneously Working within governance and regulatory frameworks eg PCR15, PA23.

Supporting and influencing stakeholders through procurement activities Managing competing priorities and deadlines Desirable Public sector procurement DHSC and/or Health Sector procurement Contract and supplier performance management Property, FM, ICT or Corporate Services categories Policy and procedure development and implementation

Qualifications

Essential Eligible to study towards CIPS Level 4 or equivalent professional qualification or studying towards qualification.

Desirable CIPS Level 4 qualified or higher Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.