Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description

We’re recruiting the role of Head of Commercial Procurement on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract to cover Maternity Leave.

This position will lead the ongoing operational management of the Commercial Procurement Service, ensuring that processes and procedures are defined, developed and fit for purpose across the Commercial Lifecycle whilst meeting our obligations to national procurement policy and law.

In this role you will provide the oversight required across the support pillars and ensure we remain within the CSSF, without compromising pace. You will be the point person for the team providing advice and guidance with knowledge and understanding across the commercial lifecycle. You will use this expertise to drive operational efficiency and decision making while delivering your own procurement categories.

You will also develop effective relationships across the organisation as an operational leader, maintaining and influencing stakeholder relationships to create impactful organisational outcomes.

Key Accountabilities:

• Management of the commercial procurement operational service in terms of day-to-day activities, process development and continuous improvement, performance reporting, compliance to process and resource allocation. Act as an operational leader within the organisation, promoting the function as an enabling service and a key strategic partner.
• Leading both an inclusive, high performing and skilled team as well as the procurement operations pillar including line management, taking responsibility for overall operational success and delivery of activities within pipeline.
• Overseeing interactions between strategy and assurance, procurement operations and contract & supplier management pillars, facilitating the successful operation by embedding effective ways of working as well as defining and implementing commercial strategies and plans.
• Work closely with the Director of Commercial Procurement to develop the service and set direction for the team and organisation, as well as to provide support and deputise where appropriate.
• Support the development and delivery of services within the cross functional tribe, ensuring high internal service standards in synergy with organisational planning activities and delivery plan.
• Build, manage and develop internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Lead by example in the successful delivery of your own category pipeline.
• Being responsible for ensuring best practice.
• Remaining abreast of market and sector intelligence as well as alternative technologies, practices and suppliers through stakeholder collaboration.
• Ensuring strategies meet business needs, objectives and outcomes and that they align to organisational strategy.
• Ensuring good governance and compliance.

Essential Experience:

• Experience of public sector procurement
• Significant experience in the procurement of software, data storage, platforms and other digital technology
• Experience in leading a team

Qualifications

CIPS Membership advantageous

Additional Information

Salary from: £74,000

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• 30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
• A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
• Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
• A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Blended working arrangements

Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

#LI-Hybrid

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor. 

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. 

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.