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Category Manager – Estates Portfolio
HPL Grade 7
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The Role:
The Category Manager - Estates Portfolio will play a crucial role in driving strategic procurement initiatives within the Estates Portfolio. This role will involve managing complex, high-value procurements, ensuring compliance with EU/UK Law and Standing Financial Instructions, and delivering sustainable cost improvements across the organization.
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JOB PURPOSE
The Category Manager will:
· Be responsible for developing a strategic procurement service within a specific portfolio of sourcing categories.
· Responsible for the management of highly complex and high value procurements of both a revenue and capital nature in accordance with EU/UK Law and Standing Financial Instructions.
· Identify procurement projects within key markets to deliver sustainable cost improvements and benefits across the organisation.
· Ensure contract compliance and drives cost and efficiency savings by analysing current spend and developing procurement strategies.
· Ensures that contract strategy is embedded in working practices and that contracts are fit for purpose, effectively managed, and monitored for efficiency and value for money.
This role requires strategic collaboration with senior stakeholders to foster positive attitudes towards contract management and efficiencies, working closely with both operational and clinical teams.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Established in 2018, Healthcare Partners Ltd (HPL) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.
We offer a consultative, collaborative approach — based on a genuine desire to make healthcare provision outstanding, and respecting the opinions and skills of our fellow clinical professionals to produce exceptional outcomes.
We are a substantial company in our own right, with an annual turnover of around £50m and over 80 staff. We partner with other healthcare providers throughout the UK in both the public and private sectors, reinvesting our profits and savings back into the NHS.
At Healthcare Partners Ltd, the patient is at the heart of all we do. We’re proud to be part of the NHS, helping to make healthcare better.
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Job Duties:
- Strategic Planning: Develop and implement strategic procurement plans for the Estates Portfolio.
- Project Management: Manage complex procurement projects, including tendering, contract negotiation, and supplier management.
- Cost Optimization: Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities through innovative procurement strategies.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with all relevant procurement policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clinical teams and operational departments.
- Data Analysis: Analyse procurement data to identify trends and inform decision-making.
- Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing procurement team.
Essential Competencies:
- Leadership: Proven track record of building, leading and motivating teams.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work within a diverse team.
- Analytical Skills: Must be analytical and able to make informed decisions based on experience and sound instincts.
- Problem-Solving: Passion for results: The ability to find creative solutions and generate results, a strong sense of urgency and the ability to infuse that in others.
- Relationship Building: Experienced at working effectively across multiple levels of an organisation and building successful cross-functional partnerships.
- Time Management: Ability to balance multiple priorities in a quick-moving and change-oriented environment.
- Professionalism: Highest professional ethics and professional presence.
- Active Listening: Excellent listening skills.
Please refer to the attached Job Description if you would like to know more about this role.
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Experience
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- Good knowledge in a category management role with experience relevant to the areas outlined in the job description.
- Good understanding of the technical requirements of public sector procurement and best practice guidance to a range of project-based procurement activities.
- Demonstrable experience of: • Advanced negotiation skills • Knowledge of strategic sourcing methodologies • Contract law and dispute resolution • Statistical and data analysis skills • Knowledge of market areas related to specific work categories • Risk assessment / analysis • Experience of managing complex projects to time and on budget • Experience of applying principles of change management
- Evidence of ability to plan, develop and implement initiatives without direct supervision
- Evidence of achievements in terms of savings / service improvements.
- Ability to negotiate with staff at all levels and use informed persuasion to influence others, including senior NHS personnel.
- Able to gain the confidence, co-operation and enthusiasm of non-finance managers, including Directors, in communicating complex, technical financial information.
- To be seen as a credible and knowledgeable procurement person both within the organisation and externally
- Experience of being accountable for high value complex health procurements and identifying links to national, regional and local procurement priorities.
- Experience in people management – ability to delegate, empower, influence and lead people in a complex and dynamic organisation
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working with senior staff and clinicians
- Experience of working with the NHS Terms and Conditions of Supply
- Experience of applying principles of change management
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply(CIPS Level 5)
- Educated to Degree level
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Evidence of having undertaken courses on: Contract management, Project management, Procurement systems training, Procurement Law
Meini prawf dymunol
- An appropriate professional and/ or management qualification
- Project Management PRINCE 2
- Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) or similar appropriate professional institute or relevant experience.
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Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- David Edwards
- Teitl y swydd
- Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
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