Category Manager - 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

• Professional operational service delivery and business management knowledge

Desirable criteria

• Post Graduate Diploma or Corporate member in Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or other appropriate professional institute or relevant experience (by examination).

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in a Category Management role
• Category management strategy initiation, planning and development process leadership Developing ideas for category strategy improvement opportunities within the organisation
• Determining business wide category based opportunities to reduce the TCO of products, equipment and services by clarifying the organisation's business plans that will impact or be impacted by suppliers.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and experience of EU procurement processes, using Government procurement frameworks

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Negotiation: A skilled negotiator with a broad range of skill sets
• Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, demonstrating ability to engage with stakeholders at multi levels

Desirable criteria

• Change Management: Understands change management and process improvement with experience in supporting business process / organisational change

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, 768.3KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)