Job vacancy: Category Manager, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth

Job summary

Main area: Procurement Contracting
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: 12 months (Fixed Term 12 months)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
Job ref: 216-AM-A7087628

Employer: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Derriford Hospital
Town: Plymouth
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/04/2025 23:59

Category Manager

NHS AfC: Band 7

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Build Collaborative Relationships

· Politically astute to develop robust networks that deliver sustained influence and embedded change.

· Through effective networks and category knowledge, assesses commercial collaborative opportunities and provides recommendations to the PPSA Board.

· Develops productive on-going relationships with directors, senior managers, multi-disciplinary stakeholders and suppliers.

· Maintains regular contact with customers, stakeholders, suppliers and operational staff, to develop market, supply chain and category group knowledge, maximising commercial opportunities.

· Influences stakeholders and customers to assess clinical, technological and commercial benefits to be yielded through standardisation and rationalisation of goods and/ or services within designated portfolio.

· Promotes cost effective solutions by adopting and maintaining procurement best practice.

· Develops networks with colleagues in local Trusts, other collaborative organisations, Government Procurement Service and other agencies within category market(s).

· Presents, explains and defines highly complex commercial and potentially contentious information in support of influencing difficult decisions.

· Advises senior managers, clinicians, technicians and service users on all aspects of the procurement process, ensuring compliance with existing Procurement Legislation to ensure that probity and corporate governance is maintained.

· Develops and implements policies and strategies for managing multi-disciplinary stakeholders to maximise outputs, managing priorities to reflect the changing needs of stakeholders, customers, market forces and NHS policy.

For further details please see attached JD&PS.

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience in the management of a commercial team and or / portfolio, with demonstrated proven evidence of delivering efficiencies and added value to the procurement function
• Understanding of the commercial mechanics of the NHS, or transferable proven knowledge from the private sector
• Proven evidenced contract and category management within relevant disciplines
• Programme and project management

Desirable criteria

• Proven knowledge of logistics, inventory control and supply chain management and networks
• Strong organisational skills /motivational management skills

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MCIPS or equivalent demonstrable experience

Desirable criteria

• Business or Science degree

Aptitude & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Self-reliant
• Dependable

Desirable criteria

• Ambitious, eager to progress

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If you need support with the online application process or require reasonable adjustments with the application and/or interview process please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post.

We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. We recommend contacting the manager of the role prior to applying and we commit to giving requests full consideration.

We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply for our roles. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves our patients' experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace and hospital where everyone feels they belong and included.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Providing false information is an offence & could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal/police action if an applicant is successful.

Please note that if you are successful in your application & accept the position you agree that the Staff Health and Wellbeing Department can access your health records from your current/previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations & screening tests. This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.

For Doctors Roles:

Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/Details
University Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.

In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team.

We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.

Any candidate details (whether written or spoken) or CVs that are referred directly will not constitute an introduction. The Trust will under no circumstances be responsible for any recruitment fees in relation to these contacts.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol.

In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co-operation.