Category Manager

at  Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

NWL Procurement Services (“NWL PS”) is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all Members (“NWL Members”). The Category Manager is responsible for supporting the effective management of and the value delivery for the procurement of goods and services across the Professional Services Category. They will actively be responsible for supporting the Head of Category to ensuring effective development and maintenance of Category Strategy, Category Plan and Commercial Strategy.
The Category Managers will have delegated authority to support Head of Category’s with elements of the overall commercial lifecycle, including Category Strategy and Category policy development and understanding NWL Member requirements.
This will be done through jointly working with the Head of Category with the development of Category Management strategies, understanding of the supplier/market landscape, and delivering timely and effective support, guidance, and expertise to the businesses.
Given delegated authority to support the Head of Category in the development and maintenance of the Professional Services Category Strategy to deliver NWL PS strategy and corporate objectives and to enable maximum aggregation of low-value spend, reduction in sourcing activity (minimising order cycle) and reducing supplier base to enable value to be added by Management activities
Work with the Head of Category in developing and maintaining Category plans for key spend areas and transformation programmes.
Responsible for parts of the production of a Commercial Strategy for each sourcing project, including but not limited to, clear sourcing outcomes and definition of contracts to be included.
Given authority to liaise with end-users to scope and develop Project Initiation Documents (PIDs) to include project outlines, spend baselines (inclusive of NWL PS partner spend), project scope and linking to approved Category Strategy.
Given delegated authority for the management of potential supplier relationships by engaging the supply market early and building rapport/creating collaboration opportunities to support delivery of NWL PS strategy and corporate objectives
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

WE CAN OFFER YOU:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career
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Build and maintain key relationships across the Sector and with important external stakeholders.
Seek and support active involvement and engagement of internal stakeholders in the commercial and sourcing processes.
Engage with the relevant NWL Member stakeholders, ensuring that requirements are effectively met by Category Strategies and subsequent sourcing activities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities

Please refer the Job description for details