Procurement Category Specialist

6 days ago


Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom ExtraCare Charitable Trust Full time

The ExtraCare Charitable Trust is seeking a skilled Procurement Category Manager to join its team. This role offers a salary of £55,000 per annum, with hybrid working arrangements and benefits including enhanced pension, flexible working hours, and cycle to work scheme.

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced professional to manage assigned categories, providing procurement support from routes to market to contract execution, ensuring value for money and social and environmental value.

  • This includes identifying and leading on collaborative and consolidated procurement activities, benchmarking, and working with other departments to create procurement strategies and pipelines.
  • The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering the Procurement Strategy and Category Management for the Trust.

Promoting good procurement and contracting practices, providing advice and guidance across the organisation through information and training, sharing best practices to ensure compliance.

A sound understanding of Procurement law and in-depth knowledge of procurement processes and procedures, regulations, and governance is essential.

The ideal candidate will be conversant with spend analytics systems, able to extract MI and manipulate data into plans, and confident in defining, constructing, and managing complex procurement and executing contracts.

An understanding of the social housing regulatory regime and previous line management experience would be beneficial.



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