Head of Category - Soft FM

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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 and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A postgraduate business or finance degree (MBA, MBL, CA)
• Masters-level qualification in communications or equivalent relevant experience at a senior level
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant Senior Management experience, leading procurement and supplier management teams at a strategic level
• Significant experience in a Category Management role
• Modern procurement techniques and approaches, including strategic cost management principles and strategic category management process knowledge.
• Managing staff
• Category management strategy initiation, planning and development process leadership Demonstrable experience of delivering total cost of ownership savings by Category Management
• Experience of leading and being accountable for development of business plans, strategies
• Specific and demonstrable category experience as required for the role, including evidence of significant associated benefits realisation
• Experience in formulating long term strategic plans, involving uncertainly and impact on the organisation
• Experience in policy implementation and development for a directorate or equivalent
• Experience in being responsible for financial resources including budgeting for a major area, budget setting and monitoring
• Experience in line management of staff; leading and Managing Others: Strong project leadership and management capabilities and experience, with capacity to manage multiple small and medium sized projects
• Experience in establishing general policies

Desirable criteria

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

Skills andKnowledge

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
• Change Management: Understands change management and process improvement with experience in supporting business process / organisational change
• Strategy Delivery: Experience of delivering and implementing category and sourcing strategies, delivering strategies for various sub-categories
• Ability to process highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options
• Evidence of providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information where there have been significant barriers to acceptance which needed to be overcome

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

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 416.4KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)