Category Lead

2 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom LHH Recruitment Solutions Full time

**Category Lead**

**Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust**

**£33,706 to £40,588 per annum**

Are you ready to join a new, exciting and procurement excellent team in West Yorkshire on behalf of a collaborative and engaging NHS Trust offering opportunities to progress and develop your procurement career?

As part of a long-term transformation plan, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are ready to recruit a new Procurement team and one of the exciting roles we are project managing is the recruitment of three Procurement Leads. These roles willbe pat of a team providing procurement advice and guidance, provision of insight and data analysis. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and local policies, standards, and procedures throughout the procurementprocess whilst also supporting the strategic operations of the organisation and partner decisions and programme's.

This role will be supported by a strong team of Senior Procurement Professionals who are passionate about the development of procurement staff as well as engaged and welcoming internal and external stakeholders.

This role will be part of a team presenting the procurement function as a progressive, proactive, responsive and innovative concern in order to generate and drive uptake of negotiated contracts. Part of that will be working closely with stakeholders to influencechoice, prioritise change and deliver savings, process improvement and product standardisation.

**Who are you?**
- Able to lead in complex procurement projects of high value including coordination, evaluation, risk registers as examples to ensure Trust policy adhered to with the support of the Contracts Manager/Deputy Head of Procurement
- Able to extract information from relevant systems and utilise the data to create insight.
- Able to manually create reports where data is not available.
- Create reports aligned to Trusts reporting requirements e.g., tender award reports.
- Provide guidance and agree how the blend of evaluation criteria should be outlined in procurement processes.
- Resolve contractual problems as required e.g., contract disputes (with support of Procurement Leadership) and payment disputes.
- Provide guidance on procurement matters to project managers, the wider procurement team and/or other operational personnel.
- Ensure adherence to finance and procurement risk requirements e.g., standing financial instructions and English procurement regulations.
- Interpret Trust, regional and national guidance with regards to social value, green agenda and incorporate into procurement project activity ensuring the measures can be appropriately measured
- Support Procurement leadership in ensuring transaction compliance
- to receive further information on this role and the organisation.


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