Lead Category Manager

At NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS), making a difference is important to us. If you're motivated and interested in delivering meaningful progress at the NHS, then this role could be for you.

We are looking for a Lead Category Manager to join our team.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career and category management experience as part of our strategic category teams. These roles will support a range of categories including Estates, Facilities and Digital. They are critical categories and vital to the NHS in supporting the ongoing service pressures across the NHS.

These are strategic roles and will be key drivers of value for the NHS and wider public sector through delivering projects, frameworks and call off procurements for customers.

The roles will include extensive engagement with our member NHS organisations and other NHS and public sector customers, across a wide range of stakeholders, based locally, regionally and nationally. Key stakeholders also include Integrated Care Systems and NHS England.

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic individuals wanting to make a positive difference in the NHS. The successful candidates should be able to demonstrate strong personal skills, and extensive experience and enthusiasm for category management and procurement. They will also be a good communicators, have a strong people focused approach, and broad commercial acumen., These will be strategic roles supporting the Estates, Facilities and Digital Specialist Category Manager. The positions predominantly focus on category management and will provide providing sourcing, contract management and consultancy services across a wide range of customers.

These roles will involve multiple procurement programmes to improve value and quality for trusts.

These roles will provide advisory services, collaborative procurement solutions, supplier market expertise and work with NHS Trusts to optimise value outcomes.

You will be an ambassador for NHSCS working with senior stakeholders up to Board and Executive level in member Trusts. Working closely with key stakeholders and internal and external customers, you will set up and support individual and collaborative project groups working at all levels of stakeholder seniority.

Skills, experience, and a passion for this subject area are essential, together with a need for strong practical implementation experience.

Interviews are planned to take place on the 26th & 27th November 2024

This role is based at of offices in Dorking, Surrey.

NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS) is a collaborative procurement NHS organisation providing strategic procurement services to NHS organisations within Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and further afield. NHSCS has delivered savings in excess of £300 million working in partnership with trusts and with multiple stakeholders to deliver cash releasing savings, cost and quality improvements across a wide range of categories. NHSCS is hosted by SABP NHS Foundation Trust.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.