Non-Clinical Category Manager

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

This full time permanent position is within a fast paced team working on complex tenders, delivering category plans and savings. It is an exciting opportunity for a highly literate and public procurement-competent individual to support the delivery of a significant programme of change within the Estates, Facilities and EME categories.
You will relish the opportunity to assist in the delivery of Frimley Health’s strategic category management programme, be responsible for the delivery of a specific strategic sourcing programme within Estates & Facilities, Hotel Services and the EME categories with an ambitious cost improvement programme covering all Frimley Health sites.
You will be responsible for managing medium to large procurement projects in conjunction with our non-clinical departments. You will work to identify and manage procurements that deliver savings whilst ensuring a high level of patient care. You’ll also use your up-to-date knowledge to provide day to day information and advice on procurement processes, protocols and policy to key end users within the Trust as well as providing an invaluable contribution to the project team meetings on an on-going basis.
The role offers real potential to put your purchasing and project management expertise and experience into practice and gain the satisfaction of knowing that you have made a significant contribution towards the provision of high-quality care to our patients.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Delivery of strategic procurement initiatives
Efficient and effective delivery of procurement services
Maximise value for money opportunities through process improvement and total cost of ownership modelling
Develop, manage and report on an agreed work and savings plans
Comply with all relevant procurement legislation
Act as the subject matter expert within category, leading by example
Solve complex problems
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details, if you have any queries regarding any part of this position please contact us