Category Director - Community, Mental Health and Professional Services

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• A postgraduate business or finance degree (MBA, MBL, CA) or equivalent experience.
• A technical, financial or commercial degree or equivalent experience.
• Specialist knowledge over more than one discipline / function acquired over a significant period
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable criteria

• Appropriate professional registration is desirable Programme and/or Project Management qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• An in-depth knowledge of modern procurement techniques and approaches, including strategic cost management principles and strategic category management process knowledge is essential.
• Significant Senior Management experience, leading Category teams at a strategic level
• Managing staff
• Experience of complex change management
• Specific and demonstrable category experience as required for the role, including evidence of significant associated benefits realisation
• Experience of leading and being accountable for development of business plans, strategies
• Experience of having responsibility for budget setting and management
• Significant experience in line management of large teams and major activity areas
• Experience in imparting unwelcome news, e.g. where performance target have not been met, job losses, redundancy investigations

Desirable criteria

• Experience of significant organisational transformation programmes
• Experience in making a major contribution to corporate policies and strategy
• Experience of developing performance management reports; and accountability/responsibility of performance management
• Experience in being accountable for a major area of activity with autonomy to act independently, interpret National Health Service policy and strategy, and to set goals and standards for others

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Acts as a strong leader and is respected by executives of stakeholder organisations
• Subject matter expertise in Category Management, and the ability to express that expertise to a range of stakeholders

Desirable criteria

• Thorough knowledge of Public Procurement Regulations and Public Contracts Regulations

Other

Essential criteria

• Financially aware and comfortable undertaking complex financial analysis, including development of should cost analysis and complex business cases

Desirable criteria

• Maintains a wide network of contacts in commercial and market category

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 688.3KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)