Senior Category Buyer

3 weeks ago

Redditch, United Kingdom Concept Resourcing Full time

**Job Purpose**:
To act as Senior Category Manager to the Head of Procurement; directly supporting this role in promoting and maintaining a cost effective, efficient and responsive Procurement Services.
To contribute to defining, communicating and delivering the Procurement Strategy as approved at Board-level and in establishing and maintaining the direction and specific annual savings targets and other work streams developed as a result.
To support the Head of Procurement in the effective and efficient management of the total resources of the Department, assisting and supervising where required as part of the Senior Management Team.
Responsibility for strategic management of contracts and the supply chain in a wide range of complex healthcare related goods and services. Provide leadership to category managers and senior buyers to help identify, develop and drive sourcing strategies forall categories of services and commodities within the remit of the procurement department.

**Key Duties**:

- To act as overall Senior Category Manager to the Head of Department at all levels, supporting as and when required to do so.
- To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with all clinical and corporate stakeholders and to ensure that the procurement service provided to internal customers is of a consistently high standard.
- To contribute to defining and delivering the Trusts Procurement Strategy that covers all appropriate non-pay expenditure.
- Lead and co-ordinate cross functional contracting and sourcing teams to develop and implement 'high impact' contract strategies. Understand total cost of ownership, supplier and industry economics.
- To ensure that the procurement team provides a high quality service to their customers. To use performance measures to identify areas for development and to implement service improvements.
- To provide support to all procurement areas as may be necessary and directed by the Head of Procurement.
- Establish and develop long-term contracting strategies to achieve savings targets and quality improvements.
- To directly manage the Trust's key suppliers and to develop and implement business continuity plans to secure supplies of critical items during major incidents and other cases of major disruption.
- Undertake audits, benchmarking exercises, detailed financial analysis of complex procurement projects and modelling to produce option appraisals and recommendations for Trust senior management.
- To lead the contracting team to achieve agreed annual cash releasing and cost avoidance savings (based on influenceable spend expressed as a percentage and /or financial figure) via multiple projects and initiatives and specifically through contract demandmanagement, supply management and negotiation.

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