Category Manager

3 weeks ago

Brighton, United Kingdom Novo-K Limited Full time

**Role Summary**
The Senior Category Manager will line manage the Category Team to build relationships externally with suppliers and internally as a business partner to operational and corporate departments.
The Senior Category Manager will use their market and service knowledge to deliver highly complex or very high value procurements and contracts that maximise value for money, comply with internal governance requirements and relevant legislation whilst balancingthe demands of service delivery in a dynamic, multi-site trust.
The Senior Category Manager will also ensure the provision of expert procurement advice to operational and corporate departments to support ongoing contract management and work as an expert to the Category Team members.
**Main Duties and Responsibilities**
**Communication**
- Engage with and influence stakeholders at all levels and in sensitive situations, delivering difficult messages where required to Trust Directors and senior clinical and operational leaders in relation to very detailed contractual issues or high value/highly complex procurements..
- Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of projects/programmes including within change programmes where there may be complex and conflicting stakeholderobjectives.
- Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable Supplier relationships to deliver agreed objectives over the duration of the contract/programme where there may be highly complex and conflicting Supplier objectives
- Build and maintain the reputation of the procurement service as a highly professional and enabling business partnering service.
- Champion procurement and promote the benefits of leading procurement practices internally and externally, resulting in procurement having a visible and high profile at all levels.
- Lead the negotiation of high value or highly complex, multi-year contracts for services and subsequent contract management on behalf of the Trust.

**Service Delivery and Improvement**
- Develop and deliver commercial procurement strategies at a divisional level requiring supplier innovation, senior stakeholder engagement, and/or market building/shaping.
- Deliver commercial procurement strategies that cover multiple divisions.
- Support on the delivery of strategic procurement and commercial opportunities ensuring the long term sustainable future of the Trust.
- Carry out procurements for highly detailed, high value contracts that require analysis, comparison and assessment.
- Critically assess markets and competitive behaviour undertaken by all suppliers within the relevant categories and take action to improve or protect the Trust's interests across the whole contract life-cycle.
- Ensure the provision of expert procurement advice to operational and corporate departments to support ongoing contract management and work as an expert to the Category Team members.
- Co-ordinate clinical and operational engagement in the selection of new products and equipment including establishing equipment trials, designing feedback questionnaire, collating and reporting results.
- Develop and implement service policy and processes in line with Trust requirements and national guidelines.
- Responsible for ensuring catalogues within the relevant categories are maintained and the electronic catalogue management system is maintained and updated.
- Extract and analyse procurement data to develop and inform the strategic approach to specific procurements, to identify efficiency opportunities and inform the forward work-plan of the team.
- Develop and implement appropriate evaluation methods to ensure that the service continually provides the most up-to-date and/or specialised service across the Trust.
- Authorise purchase orders and contracts in line with Trust Standing Financial Instructions and Delegated Financial Limits. People Management and Development
- Day to day management of staff in the category team.
- Support the learning and development of the category team.

**People Management and Development**
- Day to day management of staff in the category team.
- Support the learning and development of the category team.

**Experience and Qualifications**
- MCIPS Chartered Professional Status; AND additional professional development through taught courses, seminars or other workplace experience, equivalent to a masters level qualification or CIPS Level 7 Executive Diploma; OR
- MBA or Masters Degree in a relevant field e.g. Purchasing, Supply, Logistics, Business etc

**Skills**
- Excellent written, oral and presentational skills.
- Able to present and explain complex commercial matters in formal and other settings to range of audiences.
- Able to influence and negotiate with senior managers within the Trust and in external organisations, where they may be differing objectives and priorities.
- Excellent analytical skills, sound judgement and good problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent skills to enable planning and delivery of service plans for the forthcoming year and in the medium term.
- Able to develop policy and procedure for relevant category areas.
- Able to work to tight deadlines.
- High level of competency in word processing, spreadsheet and presentational software packages.

**Specific Requirements**
- Experience in procurement leadership positions within a complex, service-delivery focussed organisation.
- Knowledge and awareness of developments in NHS Procurement operating model.
- Category knowledge and awareness appropriate to the category team.

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