Lead Category Manager

2 months ago


Dorking, United Kingdom Cedar Full time

Lead Category Manager - IT and Digital. Public Sector. Dorking / Remote work (hybrid working). £50,441 - £56,534 DOE (including £1,915 fringe London Weighting supplement)

Cedar are currently working with a unique and innovative not-for-profit shared services hub, which offers collaborative solutions across the NHS and Wider public sector. They are currently looking for a Lead Category Manager to look after IT and Digitalspend across various projects and programmes for their customer base. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious procurement professional, with good knowledge of public sector procurement regulations, to join an exciting organisation which is directlysupporting the national health service and to improve patient outcomes on a not for profit basis.

Responsibilities of the Lead Category Manager - IT
- Support the development and delivery of strategic category management
- Work with stakeholders to ensure that service specifications, procurement evaluation criteria and assessment processes are fit for purpose and will result in the effective procurement of individual services
- Support delivery against an annual procurement delivery plan in line with the organisations objectives to support Acute, Community and Mental Health Trusts for collaborative and independent projects
- To manage a rolling workplan capturing and managing procurement intentions for a range of NHS organisations.
- Manage individual procurements as a project using appropriate project management principles
- Liaise with and manage independent contractors, maintaining effective partnership working whenever external procurement resource is required
- Provide specialist procurement support and advice to budget holders, stakeholders and other partners
- Ensure that procurements are conducted in line with the process required from the standing financial instructions, regional, and national rules

Skills and Experience
- Strong experience within a public sector procurement environment, with experience running full open tenders
- Excellent communication and people skills
- Specialism in IT and Digital procurement (desirable)
- A procurement qualification or related university degree (desirable)

Salary and Benefits
- £50,441 - £56,534 DOE (including £1,915 fringe London Weighting supplement)
- Generous Pension
- Hybrid Working Model 1 day in office per week
- A range of other benefits including various discounts and salary sacrifice options



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