Category & Operations Specialist

1 week ago


Berkshire, United Kingdom Focus Resourcing Full time

**(We cannot advertise salary, please feel free to call to discuss)**

Our client is one of the fastest growing suppliers of medical support and services to the NHS. They pride themselves on delivering high standards of operational support across various medical facilities.

A position has become available within the busy consumables department for a Category & Operations Specialist. The role would be suited to an individual who is seeking to develop and gain further insight into the work undertaken through a procurement & operationalfunction.

Initial focus will be to support project activities to ensure our catalogue is up to date & processes are documented to provide consistency & accuracy. You will also work to support company IT systems including inventory, procurement, consumption, quotations& contracts to support operations.

The role will require excellent analytical, influencing, negotiation and project management skills, in addition to your ability to deliver incremental value from existing suppliers (external) and processes (internal).

Typical responsibilities:

- Support procurement service for the consumables business
- Contribute to the delivery of projects
- Support ticketing system and central mailbox management
- Develop superuser status to assist with configuration control/admin and change requests in the inventory management platforms
- Proactively support managers to identify and rectify order delivery and system queries, escalating as required.

The person:

- Essential - Competency in MS Office Suite
- Essential - Experience in Cost Management, SRM, CRM and Performance Improvement.
- Essential - Proven ability to work successfully in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment.
- Flexible to travel to other sites in the UK if required
- Desirable - CIPS started/working towards
- Desirable - CMI started/working towards
- Desirable - Post-graduate vocational qualification or working towards

The role is based at our client's head office in Theale and may require some travel to other UK sites as and when necessary to support colleagues and operations staff.

A DBS Enhanced Disclosure is required for all applicants.



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