Job summary
- Main area
- Procurement
- Grade
- Grade 8
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-HPL-EMF17523
- Employer
- Healthcare Partners Ltd
- Employer type
- Private Sector
- Site
- Healthcare Partners
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £56,443 - £63,529 Per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Category Manager - HPL Grade 8
Grade 8
Job overview
The Role:
The Senior Category Manager will play a pivotal role in driving strategic procurement initiatives within the Estates Portfolio. This role will involve managing highly complex, high-value procurements, ensuring compliance with EU/UK Law and Standing Financial Instructions, and delivering significant cost improvements and benefits across the organisation.
Main duties of the job
JOB PURPOSE
The Senior 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Duties:
- Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategic procurement plans for the Estates Portfolio.
- Complex Procurement: Manage complex procurement projects, including tendering, contract negotiation, and supplier management.
- Cost Optimization: Identify and implement innovative procurement strategies to deliver substantial cost savings.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with all relevant procurement policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clinical teams, operational departments, and senior leadership.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyse procurement data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks.
- Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing procurement team, providing guidance and mentoring to junior team members.
Essential Competencies:
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and implement long-term procurement strategies.
- Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of commercial principles and the ability to negotiate favourable terms.
- Leadership: Proven track record of leading and motivating teams.
- Technical Expertise: In-depth knowledge of procurement processes, contract law, and relevant regulations.
- Analytical Skills: Strong analytical skills to identify cost-saving opportunities and improve procurement performance.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with stakeholders.
- Problem-Solving: Ability to identify and resolve complex procurement issues.
Please refer to the attached Job Description if you would like to find out more about this role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge in a category management role with experience relevant to the areas outlined in the job description.
- Expert 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) or similar appropriate professional institute or relevant experience.
- Educated to Degree level
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Evidence of having undertaken courses on: Contract management, Project management, Procurement systems training, Procurement Law
Desirable criteria
- An appropriate professional and/ or management qualification
- Project Management PRINCE 2
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Edwards
- Job title
- Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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