Robert Atkinson Email & Phone Number

Crewe, Gb

Derby, England, United Kingdom

Chester / Normanton / Alfreton

Manage and lead eight Contracting Managers, covering a third of the NHS Supply Chains £2bn activity spread across Consumables, Clinical and Capital areas. Develop category and tender strategies, ensuring that the Tender strategies agree with business goals, achieve sign off and then implement and complete the tender process through to award.Build productive relationships with all other business functions. Management of OJEU process through the e-tendering portal to agreed time… Show more Manage and lead eight Contracting Managers, covering a third of the NHS Supply Chains £2bn activity spread across Consumables, Clinical and Capital areas. Develop category and tender strategies, ensuring that the Tender strategies agree with business goals, achieve sign off and then implement and complete the tender process through to award.Build productive relationships with all other business functions. Management of OJEU process through the e-tendering portal to agreed time scales minimising and mitigating any potential for contract exposure.Support and mentor category teams in strategy development through to tender document sign off.Completed business critical projects such as ‘Process mapping’, ‘Enhanced due diligence’, ‘Project handover requirements’, ‘Data Capture’ and ‘Minimum Financial Requirements’.Undertake post-tender reviews to ensure best practice is captured. Identify opportunities for process improvement.Instrumental in the ‘Back 2 Basics’ change management process documenting policies and procedures to be used by the procurement teams that are both Commercial and Compliant.Managed and lead three buyers with ten contracts totalling over £115m pa. Conducted regular appraisals, developed PDP’s.First senior buyer to use e-auctions (in 2008) with a £1.6m saving identified across two contract areas.Pro-actively work with suppliers and NHS Trusts to drive best value to the NHS. Responsible for the sales, margins, costs, savings targets and budget setting.Manage the complete contracting process to ensure resource is in place to deliver on time to target from strategy to renewal.Contribute to cross functional activities from small project management to inventory management and BI solutions. Show less

Category responsibility for a team of buyers and the financial controls around sales, margin, profitability etc