Category Specialist

6 days ago


Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Full time

Job Title: Assistant Category Manager, Baby

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced procurement professional to join our team at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As an Assistant Category Manager, you will play a key role in leading procurements for Strategic Estates projects, providing a comprehensive procurement service, and developing a category management strategy that provides commercial benefit and reduces risk.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Procurement Leadership: Lead procurements for Strategic Estates projects, ensuring a full end-to-end procurement service, and providing a proactive, efficient, and responsive procurement advisory and planning service.
  2. Category Management: Develop and implement a category management strategy that provides commercial benefit and reduces risk, consistent with alignment to the Trust's strategies and UK legislation.
  3. Team Collaboration: Support the development of a strong culture of teamwork, actively supporting a culture of collaboration, flexible cross-team working, and a commitment to delivery of a high-quality service for all customers.
  4. Contract Management: Ensure all procurement activities operate in full accordance with legal requirements, environment, and sustainability requirements.
  5. Strategy Development: Lead on the development and implementation of category strategy to support the Group-wide procurement strategy.
  6. Stakeholder Engagement: Engage clinicians and managers in the end-to-end process for product selection and supply, including demand challenge, transition, and implementation planning, and development of strategy, tender evaluation, award criteria, and ongoing contract management.
  7. HR Management: Be responsible and accountable for the management of all HR issues within the category management team, from recruitment to disciplinary procedures.

About Us:

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area, and we are on an exciting journey. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Values:

  • Compassion
  • Accountability
  • Respect
  • Integrity
  • Courage

What We Offer:

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

Equal Opportunities:

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses, and partners. We encourage applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled, and LGBTQ+ backgrounds, as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

Networks:

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds, ensuring everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.



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