NHS Supply Chain
What does a Customer Relationship Manager do at NHS Supply Chain?
Day to day, you’ll manage and develop relationships with a wide range of NHS stakeholders, including Procurement, Medical and Finance Directors, acting as an agency of change using your consultative skills to deliver revenue growth for the NHS SC and savings targets for our NHS Partners. Working autonomously in a field-based role you’ll play a critical part in supporting the NHS in delivering its operational plan and priorities at local level within annual financial frameworks.
Taking a consultative approach with customers and being part of a supportive team, you will need excellent objection handing skills, enthusiasm, the ability to interpret complex data and present it in a simple way that drives action. You’ll be responsible for bringing our long-term strategy to life and in doing so unlock value for our NHS Stakeholders, patients and taxpayers. Focussed on supporting the delivery of high-quality patient care and heling delivery sustainable solutions on the pathway to Net Carbon Zero by influencing the hearts and minds of clinical and non-clinical stakeholders on changing management practices.
You’ll Be
- An extension/partner of the NHS Trusts on-site team
- Accountable for driving strategy, owning relationships and delivery of targets.
- Leading the engagement of NHS Trust stakeholders including Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, and key Clinical influencers.
- Accountable for objective delivery aligned to the NHS long term plan.
- Leading and shaping the delivery and continued development of joint savings workplans for individual trusts and integrated care systems.
- Identifying and facilitating product change or improvement of purchasing behaviour resulting in cost improvement or returning added value.
- Obtaining, understanding, and analysing trust data and be able present product associated data from Microsoft Excel & a suite of business information systems.
- Managing the relationship between the NHS and the NHS Supply Chain category tower service providers.
What skills, qualifications and qualities do I need to be successful?
- Ability to implement consultative influencing skills, including active listening, questioning, researching, planning, handling objections and securing commitment for mutually beneficial outcomes
- Ability to use internal / external network to solve customer problems and plan time and resource to deliver timely outcomes
- Ability to understand a complex and evolving organisation.
- Be familiar with using a customer relationship management application such as Oracle engagement cloud
- Ability to present messages and adjust approach to a broad range of stakeholders both in person and utilising technology.
- Be the voice of the customer and drive continuous improvement
- Track record of delivering challenging target objectives
- Experience of managing and interpreting complex data into meaningful conversations and positive outcomes.
- Available to travel regionally/nationally as required
- Its desirable that you would have a good understanding of the current/future NHS landscape.
How You’ll Work
This is a field-based role, working from a combination of home office and on site at NHS Hospitals. There will be an occasional requirement to travel to other locations.
Benefits
In return for your passion, enthusiasm and hard work you will be rewarded with an attractive salary and benefits package, consisting of
- Performance led annual bonus scheme
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days
- Generous contributory pension scheme (up to 12% of your salary)
- Flexible benefits scheme – you will be able to choose from a variety of benefits such Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance and additional pension contributions that suit you
- 3 days paid Volunteering Leave
- Access to the Blue Light Card and NHS Discounts
- Flexible working options
- National Annual season ticket purchase scheme
- Eye Care vouchers
- Employee Assistance Programme
NHS Supply Chain, who are we?
We are part of the NHS family, managing more than 8 million orders per year across 94,000 order points and 17,465 locations. We deliver over 28 million lines of picked goods to the NHS annually and our systems consolidate orders from over 930 suppliers. We proudly deliver supply chain excellence and best value to NHS customers and patients through innovation, service and clinical expertise.
Our Priorities For 2021/2022 Focuses On The Following Areas
Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, we will ensure we continue to deliver the products and services needed by the NHS, both now and in the future.
- Customer : we will anchor our business on the needs of the NHS by supporting NHS trusts to deliver safe and excellent patient care and through continuing to build the services the NHS needs.
- Resilient : we will further strengthen the resilience of our supply chain by continuing to invest in key tools and capacity that build resilience and performance, across the end-to-end supply chain.
- Safe: we will deliver clinically assured, safe products that support improved outcomes for patients and users.
- Sustainable: we are committed to supporting the NHS objective of becoming the world’s first net carbon zero national health system through reducing single use plastics, supporting the circular economy, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and improving human rights and labour standards.
- Efficient: we will ensure we have a high performing workforce and highly efficient organisation.
Supply Chain Coordination Limited acts as the management function for the NHS Supply Chain. By 2023/2024, we aim to save the NHS £2.4bn by leveraging the scale of the NHS to drive savings and provide a standardised range of quality assured clinical products.
Other Information
- SCCL is a not an NHS organisation, you will join on SCCL terms and conditions.
- For more information on SCCL and the NHS Supply chain please visit: www.supplychain.nhs.uk
NHS Supply Chain is an equal opportunities employer
SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.
SCCL 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.
Our policies and procedures reflect our commitment to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.
SCCL reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
If you are shortlisted for interview, you will be required to provide proof of ID and the right to work in the UK.
SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.
SCCL 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.
Our policies and procedures reflect our commitment to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.
SCCL reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
If you are shortlisted for interview you will be required to provide proof of ID and the right to work in the UK.
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