Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
The Procurement Team at NUH is keen to attract and retain the best talent in NHS Procurement and as such are able to offer an additional £3,000 on top of the starting salary for any MCIPS qualified candidates. There is also an annual £3,000 retention bonus paid as a lump sum after 12 months service. We are happy to discuss this in more detail with any potential candidates.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced procurement professional to join the Procurement team at NUH and really make a difference.
We have over 90 team members across the Procurement and Supply Chain Team to ensure we are able to support the organisation and offer a first-class service.
Reporting directly to the Senior Category Manager (Non-Clinical), the roles are Corporate & Staffing Category Manager and Hard FM Category Manager (experience of the category is not essential, but desirable).
We are offering hybrid working with the option to work from home up to three days per week.
You will be joining a large, friendly and supportive team which offers great opportunities for career progression.
If you are looking to develop your procurement career in the NHS, please review the Person Specification to see how your skills can transfer. If you feel you match those requirements, we'd love to hear from you.
Main Duties of the Job
In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
You will have the discipline to work from an agreed work plan, develop future plans for your portfolio, and have sound data management skills.
As a Category Manager (Non-Clinical), you'll be responsible for leading on a range of complex projects for defined categories across NUH, delivering savings and non-financial benefits in a challenging healthcare environment and supporting the management of key supplier and stakeholder relationships.
Job Responsibilities
The holder of this post will be a Category Manager and accountable to a Senior Category Manager.
The post holder will be responsible for leading specific strategic sourcing projects for defined categories across NUH and other NHS organizations as required.
Additionally, the post holder will be expected to take a wider customer service role and champion Procurement activity throughout NUH.
Key Job Responsibilities:
1. Running complex FTS procurements, managing multiple senior stakeholders and reporting and presenting as required via Prince 2 methodology in both written and verbal formats.
2. Implementing a category management strategy, delivering effective procurement and supporting the management of key supplier relationships to deliver breakthrough performance in cost, service and quality.
3. Leading large procurement activities, delivering savings and other optimal outcomes of a tactical (cost reduction) and strategic nature in a challenging healthcare environment.
4. Gaining competitive advantage for NUH by identifying best practice and leveraging the Trust spend within categories.
5. Lead the development of compliant on-line catalogues within Procurement and manage the ongoing maintenance of this information.
6. Seeking out and engaging appropriate internal and external stakeholders at Senior Manager level to provide the information and insight to support the development of the strategic options within categories.
7. Working closely with a central support team to ensure the contracts you let deliver best value to NUH through effective supplier management.
8. Supporting the Senior Category Manager with the negotiation and completion of contracts often of a complex nature to support the category strategy.
9. Promote procurement outside the procurement function and promote change and development as required.
10. Working under your own initiative and being responsible for making effective decisions for the benefit of the Trust for a range of delegated projects.
11. To be a member of the Procurement Team advising and supporting the Divisional Management Teams on service design and provision.
12. To ensure contract compliance across NUH, pursuing procurement excellence through implementation of efficient and effective procurement projects.
13. To deliver a coordinated work-plan in a timely manner across the Trust ensuring that procurement best practices are fully represented and best value achieved at all levels.
14. To chair or be a member of groups and committees as required by the Deputy Head of Procurement or the needs of the post.
15. To take ownership for unresolved problems/queries that are escalated and ensure they are resolved in agreed timescales.
16. Imparting skills and transferring procurement and/or product knowledge in order to assist in skills development.
17. To produce regular capacity and performance reports, verbal and written to Senior Category Manager and/or the Deputy Head of Procurement as required.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
* Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), partially qualified or relevant recent equivalent experience.
* Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD).
* Evidence of having undertaken supply chain management training, purchasing procedures workshops and/or additional specialist courses.
Experience
* Relevant experience in category management (at least 2 years).
* Extensive hands-on experience of current EU procurement directives and UK legislation.
* Experience in people management - ability to influence and lead people in a complex and dynamic organisation.
* Previous commercial experience in the private and/or public sectors (local and central) and good stakeholder management skills.
* Experience of managing complex projects to time and on budget.
* Experience of applying principles of change management.
Communication & Relationships
* Ability to communicate effectively at senior level including to the Trust Board.
* Well-developed interpersonal skills, e.g. influencing and negotiating, team member.
* Demonstrates experience of working with senior staff and/or clinicians.
Analytical & Judgement Skills
* Demonstrates the ability to analyse complicated requests and determine the urgency of a situation and act appropriately.
* Ability to interpret, analyse, communicate and present complex information and evidence-based data.
Other Skills
* Has a customer-focused perspective.
Physical Skills
* Ability to concentrate for long periods of time.
* Able to work in a climate of change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working.
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