Head of Category - Professional Services

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Specialist knowledge over more than one discipline / function acquired over a significant period.

Desirable criteria

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

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in a Category Management role
• Category management strategy initiation, planning and development process leadership Demonstrable experience of delivering total cost of ownership savings by Category Management
• Experience in formulating long term strategic plans, involving uncertainly and impact on the organisation.
• Strong project leadership and management capabilities and experience, with capacity to manage multiple small and medium sized projects

Desirable criteria

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

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Subject matter expertise in Category Management, and the ability to express that expertise to a range of stakeholders
• Negotiation: A skilled negotiator with a broad range of skill sets
• Analysis: Skilled in being able to conduct analysis on complex data sets to provide concise insights
• Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, demonstrating ability to engage with stakeholders at multi levels.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and awareness of NHS or wider healthcare sector operating models and policy developments would be advantageous, although not essential.

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

• Head of Category JD (PDF, 552.3KB)