P2P & Data Lead

As a Procurement team member the post holder will be required to lead on complex and challenging initiatives relating to P2P, challenging the norm and providing recommendations on service improvement in terms of process and systems across all HPL sites.

The post holder will be required to manage a number of projects with often conflicting deadlines.

Health Procurement Liverpool (HPL) is a single shared procurement service for:

• Alder Hey Children's Hospital;
• Cheshire & Wirral Partnership;
• Clatterbridge Cancer Centre;
• Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital;
• The Walton Centre.

The post holder has a lead role in delivering continuous improvement across the procurement function which includes support in developing and influencing Health Procurement Liverpool's e-Procurement Strategy, providing expert advice and support to all Trusts as part of HPL on procurement matters and ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are proactively engaged in projects to maximise the value of the procurement service to all organisations.

The P2P & Data Lead is responsible for all procure to pay activities across Health Procurement Liverpool. The post holder will manage a team of procurement staff within the purchase 2 pay (P2P) including Data and Information as part of the procurement structure, working to satisfy customer requirements by agreeing and delivering P2P work plans which will be focussed on patient safety, quality improvement and the reduction of costs.

The P2P Lead will also deputise for the Head of Systems & Supply Chain with P2P & Data activities as and when required.

• Assist with developing appropriate monitoring systems and key performance indicators to performance manage achievement of the strategy.
• Lead on the development of datasets to assist in the performance management of the Procurement strategy.
• Responsible for presenting data to Procurement senior management team and wider stakeholder groups across all HPL organisations.
• Lead on aligning HPL trust specific work plans to local collaboration and national procurement work plans to achieve a fully integrated P2P and Supply Chain system.
• To proactively develop networks to engage and influence key stakeholders both within HPL and where required, across the collaborative procurement footprint.
• To ensure that all procurement activities operate in full accordance with legal, environmental and sustainability requirements. This will include providing advice and support throughout the organisation on all aspects of P2P procurement.
• Assist with the development of the P2P function focusing on improving the efficiency of the department through more effective catalogue management, developing systems to achieve GS1 and PEPPOL standards,
• Take a leading role in the implementation of eProcurement across all departments for all HPL organisations. Ensuring that targets are achieved in relation to the Carter metrics across all areas including purchase order coverage, catalogue coverage and transactions as well as effective inventory management.
• Lead on all HPL Trusts in contributing evidence towards standards of procurement including e-Procurement strategy, Lord Carter Metrics and any accreditations or audits.
• Lead on the development of proposals that outline opportunities for system and process alignment across all HPL organisations, identify best practice and use of common systems and where appropriate seeing those initiatives through to implementation and delivery.
• Assist with the introduction of new and updated technologies as appropriate; this may involve system trials, evaluations and risk assessments.
• Lead on new systems implementation and roll out within HPL organisations.
• To manage and maintain the Trusts e-procurement systems including training, system development and maintenance.
• Responsible for national required input of data e.g Spend Comparison.
• Responsible for providing advice and facilitating the team to deal with end user system queries.
• Responsible for the product coding hierarchy that will allow detailed analysis of spend based on type of product along the lines of the e-classification coding convention.
• To work with the Systems…