Senior Category Manager, Nottingham

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job description
Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for leading a specific strategic sourcing programme for defined categories, across the Trust and other NHS organisations as required.

Additionally, the post holder will be expected to take a wider customer service role and champion Procurement as Business Partners throughout the Trust.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Running complex above threshold procurements, managing multiple senior stakeholders and reporting and presenting as required in both written and verbal formats.
• Implementing a category management strategy, delivering effective procurements and supporting the management of key supplier relationships to deliver breakthrough performance in cost, service and quality.
• Leading large and often complex procurement activities, delivering savings and other optimal outcomes of a tactical (cost reduction) and strategic nature in a challenging healthcare environment. Accordingly you will be able to demonstrate change management and stakeholder management skills across decentralised business units.
  Gaining competitive advantage for NUH by identifying best practice and leveraging the Trust spend within a category.
• Seeking out and engaging appropriate internal and external stakeholders at or up to Board level to provide the information and insight to support the development of the strategic options for the category.
• Where appropriate, working closely with a central support team to ensure the contracts you let deliver best value to NUH through effective supplier management.
• Leading the negotiation and completion of contracts often of a complex nature to support the category strategy.
• Promote procurement outside the procurement function and promoting change and development as required.
  Working under you own initiative and being responsible for making confident decisions for the benefit of the Trust.
• To be a member of the Procurement Senior Management Team delivering a coordinated work-plan in a timely manner across the Trust and ensuring that procurement best practices are fully represented and best value achieved at all levels; advising and supporting the Divisional Management Teams on service design and provision.
• To ensure contract compliance across the NUH, pursuing procurement excellence through implementation of efficient and effective procurement projects.
• To chair or be a member of groups and committees as required by the Deputy Head of Procurement or the needs of the post.
• To take ownership for unresolved problems/queries that are escalated and assure they are resolved in agreed timescales.
• Imparting skills and transferring knowledge to the category and buying teams in order to assist in skills development.
• To produce regular capacity and performance reports, verbal and written to the Deputy Head of Procurement.
• To undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required.

Person specification

Training&Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or similar appropriate professional institute or relevant experience
• Evidence of Continuous professional development (CPD)
• Advanced IT Skills

Desirable criteria

• Project Management ( Prince 2 Practitioner desirable)
• Experience of implementing procurements through the use of e-auctions

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience at a senior level
• 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
• Experience of providing strong leadership in a complex, dynamic environment with a high level of ambiguity
• Previous commercial experience in the private and/or public sectors (local and central) and excellent account management skills
• Demonstrable experience of purchasing within key category areas
• Experience in whole life contract management delivering best value
• 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• finance and leasing knowledge• risk assessment/analysis

Desirable criteria

• Experience in NHS senior management.
• Experience of managing complex projects to time and on budget.
• Experience of applying principles of change management
• Experience of working with the NHS Terms and Conditions of Supply

Communication and Relationship skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate effectively at senior level.
• Well developed interpersonal skills, e.g. influencing and negotiating, team member.
• Ability to have an impact and credibility
• Ability to delegate and empower

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrates experience of working with senior staff and clinicians.
• Awareness of Freedom Of Information act and similar policies

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates the ability to analyse complicated requests and determine the urgency of a situation and appropriately
• Ability to reach timely and effective decisions based on the appropriate use of information.
• Ability to interpret, analyse, communicate and present complex information and evidence based data
• Able to determine the appropriate method to present new and/or complex information to internal and external stakeholders sometimes in a hostile environment
• To make an appropriate judgments for the change of product within Trust and assess the cost/quality benefits to patients
• Ability to undertake option appraisals and trials and evaluations, making recommendations based on findings
• Able to influence clinical and non-clinical staff to achieve compliance of the Procurement and Trust organisational aims and objectives

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to develop and implement associated organisational strategy and policy
• Ability to project manage several complex projects with competing deadlines
• Experienced in making cases of need and recommendations for future requirements.
• Evidence of ability to prioritise and plan own work and work of others effectively.

Physical skills

Essential criteria

• Computer keyboard skills
• Ability to concentrate for long periods of time
• Able to work in a climate of change
• Able to work across both hospital campuses and elsewhere in the Health Community as required.

Other requirements specific to the role

Essential criteria

• Has a customer focused perspective
• Has managed a budget and has knowledge and understanding of budget management issues.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the healthcare sector

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

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