Head of Category - Professional Services

at  Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

North West London Procurement Services aim is to deliver best value procurement outcomes for the NHS through collaborative working Partner organisations across North West London collectively spend £1.7 billion on goods, works, and services each year. With such significant spending power, there’s a huge opportunity to take procurement to the next level — driving a smart, sector-wide approach that boosts transparency, delivers value for money, and helps cut costs.
That’s where the “Stronger Together” Procurement Strategy comes in. This action plan is key to making sure our spending aligns perfectly with sector objectives, helping us deliver our priorities and make a difference.
Leading this effort is North West London Procurement Shared Services. We are here to unlock greater value from procurement and opening doors to exciting new commercial opportunities for the entire sector.
A vacancy has arisen for a Head of Category Professional Services, to support the Category Director in the development and delivery of the category strategy across the shared service for the partner Trusts to deliver value-for-money and improved services for our patients.
Thrilled by an opportunity to deliver a highly professional and responsive client service approach, making a difference to everyone touched by the healthcare system? you will be instrumental in driving transformational change and achieving our ambitious targets!
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 Head of Category is accountable for the effective management of and the value delivery for the procurement of goods and services across the Professional Services Category. They will be responsible for line managing a Category Manager, and ensuring effective development and maintenance of Category Strategy, Category Plan and Commercial Strategy.
The Head of Category shall be responsible for inputting to the development of the Category Strategy, working closely with the Category Director to effectively engage with senior stakeholders in relevant NHS & government bodies to understand requirements and work closely with Deliver and Enable colleagues to continually review and input to the Category Strategy to ensure that deliver the NWL PS strategy and corporate objectives.
The post holder will contribute to elements of the overall commercial lifecycle, including Category Strategy and Category policy development and understanding NWL Member requirements. This will be done through the development of Category Management strategies, understanding of the supplier/market landscape, and delivering timely and effective support, guidance, and expertise to the businesses
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, 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(only available for Band 5 and up)
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Responsible for leading 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 and reducing supplier base to enable value to be added by Management activities.
Develop and maintain Category plans for key spend areas and transformation programmes.
Responsible for defining the Commercial Strategy for each sourcing project, including but not limited to, clear sourcing outcomes and definition of contracts to be included.
Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required

Please refer the Job description for details