Are you Public Sector Senior Health Category Professional looking for a new challenge?
NHS SBS are seeking a Senior Procurement Category Manager to join their health category management team on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. You'll navigate a regulated environment, focusing on creating, delivering, and running complex framework agreements to meet client demands. Your expertise will be criticality in crafting strategic plans to drive growth pipelines within your portfolio.
This position is predominantly home based, but there is an expectation to attend meetings at our Salford office once/ twice per month and where business needs are required.
What you will be doing:
- Leading, mentoring and supporting a team of buying staff of different levels.
- Creating, developing, and running a category portfolio of compliant solutions or Framework Agreements.
- Developing and implementing short and long-term category strategies.
- Driving uptake of portfolio across the landscape, working alongside key support teams including: Innovation, Implementation, Marketing and Consultancy.
- Leading a portfolio of projects, working closely with key partners to influence procurement choice and drives savings and efficiencies and improve quality.
- Offering procurement support to the customer Service Directorates, Heads of Procurement and Key Leaders on a national footprint.
- Working with the supplier base ensuring that all aspects are covered within the category from a product, service, and collaborator basis.
What you will bring:
- CIPS Level 5 or 6 qualified.
- Experience in public sector procurement and compliantly working with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, including relevant policy and guidance.
- Relevant knowledge of the category and market.
- Management of teams and resource.
- Internal/ external collaborator management.
- Experience leading procurements under public contracts.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience and knowledge of working with the NHS.
- Understanding and experience of e-sourcing and e-procurement solutions.
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full Time, 12-month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Salford
Security Clearance Level: DBS
Internal Recruiter: Amy
Salary: up to £55,000 per annum
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, health cash plan, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams' expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
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We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.