Senior Category Manager | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Responsibilities

Reporting directly to the Deputy Head of Procurement you will lead a team of Category Managers to successfully deliver the NUH work plan.

• Running complex above threshold procurements, managing multiple senior stakeholders and reporting and presenting as required in both written and verbal formats.
• Implementing a category management strategy, delivering effective procurements and supporting the management of key supplier relationships to deliver breakthrough performance in cost, service and quality.
• Leading large and often complex procurement activities, delivering savings and other optimal outcomes of a tactical (cost reduction) and strategic nature in a challenging healthcare environment.
• Gaining competitive advantage for NUH by identifying best practice and leveraging the Trust spend within a category.
• Seeking out and engaging appropriate internal and external stakeholders at or up to Board level to provide the information and insight to support the development of the strategic options for the category.
• Working closely with a central support team to ensure the contracts you let deliver best value to NUH through effective supplier management.
• Leading the negotiation and completion of contracts often of a complex nature to support the category strategy.
• Promoting procurement outside the procurement function and encouraging change and development as required.
• Working under your own initiative and being responsible for making confident decisions for the benefit of the Trust.
• Being a member of the Procurement Senior Management Team delivering a coordinated work‑plan in a timely manner across the Trust and ensuring that procurement best practices are fully represented and best value achieved at all levels; advising and supporting the Divisional Management Teams on service design and provision.
• Ensuring contract compliance across the NUH, pursuing procurement excellence through the implementation of efficient and effective procurement projects.
• Chairing or being a member of groups and committees as required by the Deputy Head of Procurement or the needs of the post.
• Taking ownership for unresolved problems or queries that are escalated and ensuring they are resolved within agreed timescales.
• Imparting skills and transferring knowledge to the category and buying teams in order to assist in skills development.
• Producing regular capacity and performance reports, verbal and written, to the Deputy Head of Procurement.
• Undertaking any other duties that may reasonably be required.
• Leading a specific strategic sourcing programme for defined categories, across the Trust and other NHS organisations as required.
• Championing Procurement as Business Partners throughout the Trust.

Qualifications

• MCIPS qualified (or similar appropriate professional institute or relevant experience) with a strong background in delivering commercial success.
• Strong communicator, experienced negotiator, innovative thinker, patient and motivational leader, and a great team player.
• Experience delivering complex FTS tenders and a sound knowledge of EU and UK procurement legislation.
• A strong track record in delivering savings in a stakeholder‑driven organisation.
• Previous NHS experience is not essential but will be considered an advantage.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled.

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