Description
About the role
The Contracts and Supplier Relationship Manager will lead the delivery of exceptionally high-quality, robust, and strategically managed legal investigations contracts for the NMC. This role involves managing high value contracts, ensuring financial controls are in place, and overseeing strong contract performance. Caseload reduction is a key objective, requiring effective management of external legal providers. Additionally, the role involves initiating and delivering Supplier Relationship Management initiatives to foster positive and trusting relationships with suppliers, ensuring value for money.
Key Accountabilities:
- Lead and be accountable for all contract management and Supplier Relationship Management activities for legal investigations contracts.
- Implement and embed recognized contract management and SRM methodologies, ensuring high standards are maintained throughout the contract's life.
- Lead dialogue/negotiations with suppliers, consolidating stakeholder feedback, and working in collaboration with the internal procurement team.
- Implement robust budget management in accordance with NMC finance policy, ensuring efficient purchase-to-pay activities.
- Establish and maintain risk registers, ensuring appropriate mitigation and reporting to management as required.
- Proactively manage contract performance, track KPIs and SLAs, and report to senior managers, taking remedial action when necessary.
About You
With proven public sector contract management experience, you will be able to lead on the above key responsibilities occasionally working autonomously. You will be an experienced negotiator who is able to evidence key judgments in the negotiation of a wide range of contracts.
Ideally you will bring experience of working with legal contracts either from an inhouse perspective or from partnering with law forms. Its desirable but not essential that you would have knowledge of professional regulation.
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave - plus eight days paid bank holidays
- Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme – with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions
- Life Assurance – 4 x current salary
- Hybrid/Flexible working policies
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Perkbox membership
- Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
- Season ticket loans
About Us
Our core role is to regulate. First, we promote high education and professional standards for nurses and midwives across the UK, and nursing associates in England. Second, we maintain the register of professionals eligible to practise. Third, we investigate concerns about nurses, midwives and nursing associates - something that affects a tiny minority of professionals each year. We believe in giving professionals the chance to address concerns, but we'll always take action when needed.
To regulate well, we support our professions and the public. We create resources and guidance that are useful throughout people's careers, helping them to deliver our standards in practice and address new challenges. We also support people involved in our investigations, and we're increasing our visibility so people feel engaged and empowered to shape our work.
Regulating and supporting our professions allows us to influence health and social care. We share intelligence from our regulatory activities and work with our partners to support workforce planning and sector-wide decision making. We use our voice to speak up for a healthy and inclusive working environment for our professions.
Check out our NMC LinkedIn page here for an insight into the NMC, our vacancies and the world of healthcare regulation.
Additional Information
Please note, if we receive a high level of applications, we may choose to close this advert early. We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Our Pay Policy
It is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request.
For our internal colleagues, you will be paid in accordance to our internal pay policy.
Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
The NMC is an exciting organisation with the ambition to be the leading healthcare regulator. To achieve this, we are working in an agile way that offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds. We are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, maternity, disability, or gender identity and welcome applications from under-represented groups.
Reasonable adjustments
We will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.
Screening and vetting
All of our roles are subject to pre-employment checks. We are in the process of introducing a vetting policy, and it is possible that this role may become subject to DBS and further vetting checks in future.